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Amusing mistrascriptions?

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Hi

I have come across a few amusing names of Victorian people and amusing mistranscriptions. Some are a bit rude shall we say. I have seen women on the census with mens names such as Henry Thomas Roberts, Wife, aged 60.

Woodbridge was once mistranscribed as Woodtriop which made me chuckle.

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