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dotty. | 22:11 Fri 20th Aug 2010 | Genealogy
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this is an occupation of a 16 year old male on the 1871 census for aberdeen:

Occupation: 'Flopmant Drammangord'

It's the ancestry transcription and of course i can't look at the primary but what the hell could it be.
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what's his name and birthplace......I'll look on scotlands people
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it's dann long born 1855, Old Deer aberdeenshire
can't find it in SP dot....tried his brother's name as well and nada.....
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cheers craft probably not the line i need but that daft occupation just caught my eye!
Dot,

This entire record looks really fishy. None of these people show up anywhere on the 1871 census. I've had a look for the wife's family, the Marters, also and nothing in Aberdeen. Ancestry shows them as a household, but they are split over two addresses 47 Lach Street and 211 Tring Baby(!) Several most of the occupations are gobbledegook. Makes you wonder how Ancestry got the transcriptions in the first place!
maybe the page was transcribed by one of the AB trolls in his spare time?

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