Problem with 1841 UK census record

Peter M Smith1

Sorry, this is not a question, but I noticed today when attaching a record from the 1841 census

that there is an indexing problem. The Event Place is given as (the church) Wakefield All Saints, but this should be (and I checked the image at Ancestry) Stanley cum Wrenthorpe. This problem will certainly apply to many records from this parish. Can someone please forward my comment to the appropriate person to correct the records.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ56-BZF

Name   Robert Ramsden

Sex   Male

Age   20

Event Date   1841

Event Place   Wakefield All Saints, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Event Place (Original)   Wakefield, Yorkshire,Yorkshire West Riding, England

Registration District   Wakefield

Residence Note   Lingwell Gate

Birth Year (Estimated)   1817-1821

Birthplace   Yorkshire

Event Type   Census

Page Number   10

Piece/Folio   1271/9

Registration Number   HO107

N Tychonievich

@Peter M Smith1 Thank you for alerting us to the inaccurately standardized place in the 1841 England and Wales Census (and for making it easy for us to see what the problem is). We will get this over to the group that maintains our record collections. Because they have quite a few of these sorts of problems to deal with, a fix will not be fast in coming.

Meanwhile, you can still use the record as a source for your ancestors and document the current error. You can add a note in the "reason to attach" field. You can also edit places when you pull them over in Source Linker.

PiperTWilson

Hello, @Peter M Smith1 - I'm not one who can help address the issue, but I did want to thank you for the well laid-out and thorough post. :)