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I was looking at the 1921 Census at Kew today and the father was listed as being dead, so even though his family had their full and proper surnames on the Census return FMP transcribed them with a surname of 'Dead'. That's really clever, FMP, I think not!.

Also my grandfather who was was a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was transcribed as a 'Gonner' in the RTM (if I recall correctly).

Dead is a surname and a variant of Dade, it could be the transcriber thought the father had a diffrrent surname from the rest of the family as happens at times.
Cheers
Guy

I wonder how many families have surname transcribed as ‘Ditto’

There were many people transcribed as "Ditto" in the original 1901 Census transcription which had to be corrected on a second transcription check at the Public Record Office in 2002, but I am sure that there are others still there.