Your thoughts on this please

Hermy

I'm not sure about some letters written after a name on a 1911 Census return and would appreciate any help.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000125778/
It's the head of the household whose name is Richard P. Jephson and above his surname are written three letters. They've been transcribed as R P J which doesn't look quite right. And I've no idea what it refers to either.
Any ideas?

Ponster

It almost looks as though it was Richard who filled out the census and when done decided to add the P between his first and second name and initialed the addition with RPJ.

Each time a correction was to be made it would need to be initialed. You can see the same thing on line 3 where he corrected the fact that his 6 month year old daughter could read and write. either he made the correction or the RPJ is to indicate perhaps that the information came from him?

Hermy

Top marks Ponster!
The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
I had thought it might be some esoteric guild of electricians...:o

shanew

he has some letters after his name in his Thom's listing of 1914 :

Richd. Pelham Jephson, A.M.I.E.E. electrical engineer
office Star Life Buildings, 12-14 College green
- res. 18 Lansdowne road

I think stands for Associate Member of Institution of Electrical Engineers

Hermy

Another bit of handwriting to decipher - if anyone can I'd be very grateful. I'm trying and failing to make out the surname and birthplace of Edward the army pensioner from this 1911 census return.
Transcript here.

tanoralover

Hermy wrote: »

Another bit of handwriting to decipher - if anyone can I'd be very grateful. I'm trying and failing to make out the surname and birthplace of Edward the army pensioner from this 1911 census return.
Transcript here.

Edward Jennings. He died in 1916. This might be him in 1901.

Waitsian

Well he's definitely from Mayo because that in brackets below his place of birth pertains to that location, not the one in the box below, for Cork isn't in Mayo, obviously! The first three letters look like 'Alt' or 'Att' to me and is that three dots over hard to read letters? So 'i' or 'j' then? Could it be a townland?

Hermy

Thanks for that. Jennings makes a certain amount of sense as there's a connection with the Pelly's a few generations back but that may just be coincidence.

Jellybaby1

mod9maple wrote: »

Well he's definitely from Mayo because that in brackets below his place of birth pertains to that location, not the one in the box below, for Cork isn't in Mayo, obviously! The first three letters look like 'Alt' or 'Att' to me and is that three dots over hard to read letters? So 'i' or 'j' then? Could it be a townland?

Would it be 'Attymass'? East and West Attymass are listed here:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo
and also here:
http://www.irelandxo.com/node/20060

shanew

Attymass makes sense to me - looks like there's a descender in there, the the last letter looks a bit like the 's' he has on Waitress etc. Not sure how the dot fits' in.. maybe a stray..

Attymass is a civil parish, and these were often used a places of birth on military records. see : Townlands in Attymass C.P.
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Hermy

Thanks again for all the help.