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Help me please!!!! Somerstown 1851/1861 census'...
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 16 Oct 2005 11:57 |
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Cheers Nell! |
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Unknown | Report | 16 Oct 2005 10:21 |
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Somers Town is on www streetmap co uk (put the dots in to use this addy). It is (and I think always has been) two words, and is the area north of the Euston Road between Euston Station and St Pancras Station. It was dug up to help build the railways and Dickens writes about the area in Dombey & Son, I think. Registration district including Somers Town is: Pancras Created 1st July 1837. Abolished 1st January 1903 (renamed St. Pancras). In Middlesex until 1889. Sub-districts : Camden Town; Gray's Inn Lane; Kentish Town; Regent's Park;**** Somers Town****; Tottenham Court GRO volumes : I (1837-51); 1b (1852-1902). St. Pancras. Registers now in Camden district. nell |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 16 Oct 2005 00:57 |
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Maurice.... Thanks for that, I thought that Somerstown was now St Pancras...so i should really be looking for entries under Camden in later years. Sal |
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Maurice | Report | 15 Oct 2005 20:47 |
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Somerstown is a locality name for part of London NW1,Camden is normally used now for the same area. A bit like Soho, and Mayfair, which are both in London W1. A locality names such as these have no specific geographic boundaries. Another example is Kings Cross which is in WC1 N1 and NWI. Maurice |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 15 Oct 2005 11:06 |
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Ummmmm...... That is why i think that it has been transcribed incorrectly as 3a is Buckinghamshire..... Thanks for your warning....but don't know what else to do. Sal |
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Phoenix | Report | 15 Oct 2005 07:49 |
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Hi Sally Just a warning. 3a as a registration district is miles away from London. |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 15 Oct 2005 01:19 |
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I will send for them both and see what happens ! |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 15 Oct 2005 01:09 |
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Thanks for that Nell.....I will try contacting those. And thanks for Mary Rachel's details....I will check those out now. Tracey...can you see what I mean about the entry for St Pancras...does it look like a Jessy to you....then the William below...the district and numbers are really hard to read. Maybe I should send for the William from Minslow or whereever and cross my fingers....think the vol is 3a and page 409? What do you think? Sal |
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☼ Orangeblossom ☼ - Tracy | Report | 15 Oct 2005 00:35 |
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re the death, I had a look at the page. Granted it is very poor quality, but there is a William Capel registered in St Pancras in Jun 1855. I can't read the numbers though. |
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Unknown | Report | 15 Oct 2005 00:35 |
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Mary Rachel's wedding: Capel, Mary Rachel Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1873 District: St Giles County: London Middlesex Volume: 1b Page: 776 |
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Unknown | Report | 15 Oct 2005 00:29 |
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Can't see any of your Capel family in 1861. I think they must have been mistranscribed. nell |
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Unknown | Report | 15 Oct 2005 00:13 |
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Hmm. The place of death would be on his death cert. If he was a beer retailer he probably worked in a pub, but pub names as we know them now often don't feature on censuses. You could try checking for him and/or Upper Seymour Street on the historical directories site, which doesn't appear to be working at the moment! Or, you could contact Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre, Holborn Library 32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA. Email: holbornlibrary[AT]camden.gov.uk Website: www.camden.gov.uk/holbornlibrary nell |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 14 Oct 2005 23:50 |
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Hello kind peeps, I have the 1851 census showing William Capel and family (named below) living at 20 Upper Seymour St, Somerstown. My difficulty is......I was told that William was killed when a beer barrell landed on him from the shoot, so I am presuming that this place was a public house (he was a licensed beer seller)... How can I find out if this was a pub? Also.....I can only find a death for a William Capel in 1855 in St Pancras....I printed it off 1837 online BMD to send for the cert but it showed that it was a Jessy Capel in St Pancras 1 b 129 and not a William (William was on the line below and living somewhere very different)..... Obviously it has been written incorrectly on the BMD....how would I find the real death as can't find any others in further years and also cannot find any trace of him or his wife on the 1861 census.... Please, your assistance is desperately needed!!!! Other members of family are - Mary Capel (nee Roberts) b 1826 Kentish Town Mary Rachel b 1846 Camden Town William b 1847 Somertown Esther b 1849 Somertown There was also a further child (my direct ancester Charles Watkin Capel) b 1852 Somerstown. My thanks in anticipation! I am in Australia so if i don't acknowledge you straight away, I am probably in bed, but I will!!!!!!!!! Sal |
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