1851 Census

I have now completed the copying of the relevant 69 pages for suggested HOOKINS names mentioned in the 1851 Census. Pages copied included 177 people with the HOOKINS name whilst another 8 look as though they are HOSKINS. 91 others have the HOOKINGS surname although many are already in my records so are likely to be HOOKINS and 2 others appear to be HOOKING. I will find out more as I begin to add the details of the Census pages to the individual records of each person as I can carry out more checks on what the surname should be and establish those who do not seem to have appeared but should be there.

New Slide Shows on Family Photographs Tab

Grateful thanks to my West Africa based IT Consultant (daughter Sharon) who has provided a marvellous addition to the blogsite. A number of photos accompany the various articles written since the website began and these have now been added ...

as slide shows for each Family Tree so all of the photos are together for my own Tree A and all the others. So if you are linked to a particular Tree you can just click on Family Photos and select your Tree to view all the pictures relating to it. Brilliant!

Some Hookins Interlopers Identified

In my Hookins Family History records there are 126 family units and a total of 553 individuals who don't belong to a particular Tree because I haven't located a link. I have completed a check of all of these Miscellaneous families and by reference to Census and birth, marriage and death details I have been able to identify quite a few as other names like HOSKINS where poor writing by the person who completed the transcribing for the Census or other record has been continued into other records. So I've found more than 100 who could not be confirmed as HOOKINS although it is quite possibe that some of the HOOKINGS could be as it's a mistranscription which often occurs. Part of the probem of Family History is that all original records are created by humans whom we thank for their help in transcription but these are always open to that dreaded "human error" which affects us all.