If you would like to have a go at solving the mystery yourself, then please read my previous blog first!
If not, read on......
The first person to work it out correctly on the previous blog was Mountainear. So really well done to you! It was indeed a transcription error.
It occurred to me after much knitting of brow that as there were so many mistakes in the various census records that I had already seen - e.g. Henny instead of Henry, or a child aged 2 being listed as 'Head of House' or one name repeated over and over instead of all family members listed, that there might well be some sort of mistake in reading the original writing.
I wrote Auguste and Augusta in quite upright spiky writing without putting the bar across in the A or crossing the T and could see it could be made into Mignall.
You need to write the name without taking your pen off the page. Then the AU of Augusta turns into the M of Mignall, with the first point of the M much higher than the second one. Then instead of a U you have an undotted I. Then you have the G, then the next U could be an N. Then if the S was looped it could look like an E. The uncrossed T looks like an L and the last E or A if not written in a round open way could be a small L (see bottom of blog)
I have re-looked at the actual writing on the census and it DOES look incredibly like Mignall.
The photo on the first blog is of Augusta (Mignall!!) aged about 33 with my father, her nephew, on her lap. The year is 1913.
The photo on this blog shows Augusta (or Auguste as she was probably originally named) as a young girl. Augusta is in the family group photo at the top of the whole blog page. She is standing on the far right, in the back row (probably about 41 years by then).
See samples of the Mignall/Auguste names below:
6 comments:
Isn't it fun to be a family history sleuthe? Very interesting and lucky you to have access to such good census records.
Well, blow me down with a feather! When Mountaineer suggested that i did try a few Mignall's and Augusta's and couldn't get it to look quite right, but did think it was vaguely possible!
Thanks for giving us some isight into your family history, enjoyed the intrigue!!
Clever old Mountainear!
Am now feeling too big-headed for words! Good to know the answer though.
I knew that . . . .only kidding . . Berlimey - I would never have spotted, or worked it out.
Interesting but plausible.
M's grandad was down as Head of House and father of all the next door's children on Ancestry! so be very careful about taking it all as gospel.
I guessed wrong though didn't I?
Clever Mountainear indeed.
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