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Errors on WMBMD and Ancestry and Freebmd

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:30 pm
by mumbles
This James Playdon
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/brows ... d=57816493

Is shown on Ancestry as marrying once to Sarah Webster but his daughter Agnes Kate born 1865 5 years before marriage to Sarah Webster mother was Harriet Price. The 1870 Marriage on WMBMD and Freebmd has Surname incorrect as Bladen

Marriages Sep 1863 (>99%)
Boyce Elizabeth Birmingham 6d 175 Scan available - click to view
COOK Walter Birmingham 6d 175 Scan available - click to view
Playdon James Birmingham 6d 175 Scan available - click to view
Price Harriet Birmingham 6d 175 Scan available - click to view

Marriages Mar 1870 (>99%)
Bladen James Dudley 6c 79 Scan available - click to view
HOW Henry Dudley 6c 79 Scan available - click to view
Parkes Clara Dudley 6c 79 Scan available - click to view
WEBSTER Sarah Dudley 6c 79 Scan available - click to view

WEBSTER Sarah BLADEN James 1870 Dudley, St Thomas Dudley Register Office 204/027/367

Re: Errors on WMBMD and Ancestry and Freebmd

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 12:55 pm
by mumbles
may not be error as although on Census records is Playdon sometimes recorded as Bladon or Bladen

Re: Errors on WMBMD and Ancestry and Freebmd

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:06 pm
by grangers14
If you look at the scans you will see what the transcriber can see. They can only add what they see.