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Title: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:12 GMT (UK)
Can anyone read these place names (apart from Briscoe)?

I think the bottom 2 are the same place.  The top right could be Mearbeck (near Settle) but I'm not 100% convinced.   :-\

Some of the area I'm researching used to be in Yorkshire but is now in Durham.

Thanks
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:14 GMT (UK)
Hello

I think the second one might be Briscoe?
or Bruscoe?

Claire
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:16 GMT (UK)
Sorry I am useless I didn't read you post you already have that one!!

Claire
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:17 GMT (UK)
Haha! Yes, I was impressed by your speedy response though!
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:19 GMT (UK)
The last one is West ******* Bank. Do you think it might begin with S?

Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:21 GMT (UK)
The enumerator's handwriting is terrible and varies a lot but I've looked on a few pages and it looks like an S.
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:24 GMT (UK)
I'm looking on here

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/M.html

The first one on the left is Bootham which is in York I think

Maybe they should have had a handwriting test
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:29 GMT (UK)
I'm really stuck on the rest....

I think you are right with Meerbeck.

The only possibility I can come up for the other is Scoon Bank near the Durham Yorkshire border in Teesdale.

Maybe someone else might have an idea?

Claire
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:33 GMT (UK)
Bootham... that makes sense, cheers!

The West *** Bank?? place is really bugging me.  not sure about Scoonbank, but then again, I've no other alternatives.
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:37 GMT (UK)
Hm... Scoonbank is definitely in the right place though.  I think you're right.  Even despite the handwriting.
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:45 GMT (UK)
Perhaps by default then?

If you squint at it you can just about see it!!
 8)
Claire
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:47 GMT (UK)
 :)

Scoon Bank is in the same parish as some of my other ancestors!  Brilliant!

Thanks Claire, that's given me plenty to go on
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: Ecneps on Friday 28 November 08 20:52 GMT (UK)
Hi,

You might find this list useful:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/index.html

Have you tried looking at a later census to see if they're written more clearly?  Sometimes they were written by the enumerator just the way they sounded

Barbara  :)
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 20:56 GMT (UK)
Lol, just realised you've just solved another big mystery Claire!

I found a website which claimed my ggg-granddad's daughter was born in "West Skeen, Bank, Transvaal, South Africa".

I spent weeks trying to find out why my ancestors would have been in the Transvaal in 1800, trawling through passenger lists, all to no avail...
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:57 GMT (UK)
Lol  ;D
I often get people in the Western Sahara in Durham.....
Or Lechtenstein in Leicestershire

Grand!!!
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: seed_pod on Friday 28 November 08 21:00 GMT (UK)
Thanks Barbara, that's really useful, I'll save it as a link  :)
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 28 November 08 21:39 GMT (UK)
Quote from: littleclaire on Friday 28 November 08 20:57 GMT (UK)
Lol  ;D
I often get people in the Western Sahara in Durham.....
Or Lechtenstein in Leicestershire

Grand!!!


These transcription errors usually come about from the use of drop-down lists by the transcribers. They type in the first few letters and the list 'suggests' a possbile placename which is very easy for the transcriber to select. ESH is the three letter country code for Western Sahara, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3

Stan
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: RellieRetriever on Monday 09 March 09 13:43 GMT (UK)
How about this place?
SCOON BANK, in the parish of Romaldkirk, wapentake of Gilling West; 6 miles WNW. of Barnard Castle.
I was using that GENIKI index of places in Yorkshire.
Title: Re: Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name
Post by: moraf on Sunday 27 September 09 17:40 BST (UK)
The first one is Boos Wood ( Booze Wood ). There is a Booze Wood in Baldersdale, west of Cotherstone Nr. Barnard Castle. There is also Scoon Bank and Mere Beck, all within 3 or 4 miles of each other.