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anyone know Huntingdonshire?
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Maureen | Report | 6 Nov 2005 15:53 |
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I have a rellie shown as being born on census as in St Ives Huntingdonshire - i think thats now Cambridge but the only people with her surname are living in a place called Farcet Huntingdonshire, i cant see a connection on BMD between St Ives and Farcet, am i missing something? maureen |
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Stan | Report | 6 Nov 2005 16:43 |
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Maureen Farcet, Huntingdonshire, was in the Peteborough Registration District. Yes, it's quite some distance from St Ives. Perhaps you need to check on different censuses - sometimes birthplaces are wrong. As adults people have put where they were brought up, or even the nearest town, and you need an earlier census, where they are with their parents, to get a more accurate birthplace, although even that is not foolproof if the census return was completed by a distant relative or landlord. Stan |
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