Anyone know what this means?

[Phoenix Tears]

On the 1861 census I found a male child but in place of his name there is a blank space and next to it under the address with an arrow pointing to the name it says quite clearly;

ALDIBORONLIKIPHOR COPHORINI

I have never seen this before and have checked a Latin dictionary but no luck. Anyone got any ideas?

[Elin]

Aldi born on likiphor cophorini - what town etc is it from? could it be 'aldi born on'?

[Phoenix Tears]

Great Coggleshall in Essex.
If you have access to the 1861 census the reference is;
RG9-1109 folio 107 page 32.

[A_M_Y]

Hey Ruth,

Did you find the same person in a later census? Maybe they will hold a clue as to what it means?

[Phoenix Tears]

No not yet but still looking, but until then I can't shed any light on it at all!

[SueTwo]

Can't really be any help, but it's a little like a mis-spelt chemical name, with the boron, and he does work in a gelatine factory.

Maybe it's aldiboronlike, with the dot above the e being a red herring, and then a space before the next word. (Don't know what aldiboron is, though).

Then phoscophorini.

Still no help, though :)

[SueTwo]

No, I'm wrong. That really is his name!

See 1851 ho 107 1783 f 518 p 31.

His children are Horatio, Edgar, Alfred, Emily, Sarah, Mary and ... U know who :)

There must be a tale there - I bet the son changed his name, though :)

[Elin]

there really was a person called aldiboronlickifor?????

Ruth you should point it out to the genesreunited team (I think it's them) and you get a prize for the silliest name!!

[jqp]

Ok So this is the guys name. He was born in 1849 and hopefully this page will allow you to see the register.

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8964&path=1849.Apr-May-Jun.C.43&rc=&zp=50

If it doesn't PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you that way.

Have also learnt that if the transcriber can't read the name, it goes as an asterisk at the beginning of the surnames....

[Jab]

Poor thing, wonder how many times he got rapped on the knuckles trying to spell his name?

[AliTS]

Just could be that he was foreign and illiterate and so his name was written how he said it in whatever accent he had. This happened loads in America.

Cophorini sounds like a place (Greece? Italy?)


Edited to say: Just did a google on Aldibor and it comes up with loads of russian speaking sites - can read the cyrillic script but don't understand it :lol: that might help a bit.

Likewise Likiphor if rewritten LIKIFOR comes up in Polish websites. Reckon your man was an eastern european.

[A_M_Y]

Its also strange that all the other children have 'normal' names apart from this one, yet he was born in the UK. From the birth entry, it appears the name may even one complete word joined together. I took a quick look to see if i could find him in a later census, but wasnt successful. I am really curious about it! All the names in my family tree and very common and uninteresting.

[mysticclare]

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus - could it be related to that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran

[Phoenix Tears]

Wow! This is great, you guys have given me loads of leads to follow up, will let you know if I ever solve it! In the meantime any other ideas are gratefully recieved!