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Title: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: natalie* on Tuesday 01 April 08 11:48 BST (UK)
Hi, I Have found this birthplace on census for one of my ancestors. Please forgive me for I have not got a clue where it is? possibly a mis spelling? st andagsan?
Many Thanks
Natalie
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 01 April 08 13:13 BST (UK)
Stryd-y-Facsen perhaps?
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: natalie* on Tuesday 01 April 08 13:18 BST (UK)
Hi ShaunJ
Thank you for responding. I think that is most likely. should give me a starting point.
Many thanks sincerely
Natalie
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 01 April 08 13:20 BST (UK)
Natalie,  I forgot to say.....Welcome to Rootschat!
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: natalie* on Tuesday 01 April 08 13:27 BST (UK)
Thank you lol
Dont really know what im doing but i shall give it a go
Thanks again
Natalie
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: graf on Tuesday 01 April 08 17:11 BST (UK)
If this name came from a census then I guess it is a
parish or town name. It could be Llandegfan
which is a parish near Menai Bridge.

A curly Ll could look like St, and f written with a
long stroke could look like s.

Bob
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: natalie* on Thursday 03 April 08 14:17 BST (UK)
Thank you Bob for your advice.
I still haven't found out for sure. But I only have the married name not the maiden name so many possibilities.
Any way thank you again
Nataie
Title: Re: Standagsan, Anglesey, Wales?
Post by: glsalw on Tuesday 30 March 10 05:00 BST (UK)
Sounds like Llandegfan, as if some wrote it, just by hearing it, and did not understand where or what it was.......some of the entries by many of the census 'enumerators' are astonishingly poorly recorded. It was all about the number. no one could have imagined we would be looking into these things many years later I suppose.