Location on 1910 census

Question

I am entering someone from the 1910 California census whose birth location is listed as Ata English. Can someone take a guess where this is meant to be? I know there is an island named 'Ata but I'm thinking after looking at that island's history that is is fairly unlikely that this matches what is on the census.

Answer 1

Ata was an abbreviation used for Australia.  Don't know why, just what I was told by a librarian many years ago while going through census records.

Comments

Thanks...really appreciate the information.

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This seems to concur with Tony.

http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.census.us.general/4907.1.1.1/mb.ashx