[Ads-l] "West-Corcas" (1745), circus, circle, and "Caucus"?

[Joel Berson]

Another 1901 genealogical bit of 1901 has a West Corcus Place, for probably a different person but the same #19.  (This one is Henry Todd; the other is a Hird, perhaps Isabella Spence.)


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1241210 


Attributable to the transcription of a singular census-taker?

Joel


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