In “Can You Read that Last Name?” we asked what the last name was in this census image:
It was Habben.
I’ve always thought it was amazing that the first names were pretty much all correct and the last name was a little more misdirected. It could have been due to Habben’s family low-German dialect that they spoke.
Kat says:
“HAB” and “HAP” could sound very similar to the census enumerator. It’s easy to see how it could be misspelled.