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Title: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 00:11 GMT (UK)
I have just been looking at a certificate of baptism for my husband's sister. It states that she was born in Northfield Laugton Kent. Can anyone please tell me where this is ? Is it a hospital or place as my husband always assumed ( wrongly as it now shows ) that she was born in Southborough the same as he and his brother were.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks. 
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: bearkat on Thursday 11 February 10 08:41 GMT (UK)
There's a Laughton in East Sussex.   ???
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: remann on Thursday 11 February 10 12:40 GMT (UK)
Hi,  I wonder could the 'u'  be  'n', and the word be Langton, according to a Kent Post Office directory 1878, there
      is a hamlet about 5 miles from Southborough called Langton, but no mention of a Northfield, just an idea.
                                                                   
                                                  remann
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: casalguidi on Thursday 11 February 10 15:40 GMT (UK)
Hi

What is the registration district and/or sub district on the certificate?

Is there an actual address given or would Northfield be the address perhaps?

There is a property named Northfield in Langton Green (Langton)  listed in a 1914 directory of the Tunbridge Wells area - Ernest LEES occupier

Casalguidi :)
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 16:09 GMT (UK)
Thanks everyone for your replies. Casalguidi it's a certificate of baptism issued by the minister not a birth cert. I will scan it in and post it later to see if anyone has any more thoughts.

Thanks again for all your replies.
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 17:51 GMT (UK)
Copy scanned and hopefully posted.

Any more thoughts anyone please?

Thanks for reading
Val
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 18:07 GMT (UK)
oops.........................
Hopefully.................
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: nigelo on Thursday 11 February 10 20:56 GMT (UK)
You should get a copy of the birth certificate, as that may have more explanation. I would be pretty sure this is the reference:

Name:     Marion P Lloyd
Mother's Maiden Surname:    Walker
Date of Registration:    Apr May Jun 1948
Registration district:    Tonbridge
Registration county:    Greater London, Middlesex
Volume Number:    5b
Page Number:    1484

I also note the mention of Hildenborough on that list. It is very close to Tonbridge.

Nigel
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: nigelo on Thursday 11 February 10 21:21 GMT (UK)
Checking the maps, I would think it very likely casalguidi has it right. Northfield Lodge, Langton Rod, Langton Green is only about 9 miles from Hildenborough, and closer still to Southborough.

Various possibilities - the family could have been living there, it might have been a lodging house of some sort, or even a nursing home perhaps.

Nigel.
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 22:14 GMT (UK)
Thanks nigelo

Yes that's the right birth registration mother's maiden name was Walker.

They were all living in Southborough at the time with their grandmother Marian Lloyd, I know where.

I was trying to establish where or what  Northfield Laugton was or is. I thought that it could be a nursing home but could not find a place called Northfield Laugton . Looking at the cert it could be an "n" so Langton is a possibility.

So it could be a nursing home in Langton, any one know of it ?

Many thanks for taking the trouble to help me, it is much appreciated.

Val
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: nigelo on Thursday 11 February 10 22:30 GMT (UK)
Googling that address gets to this page of fairly recent (2003) planning applications. I see it lists an owner's details, so perhaps they can help tell you if it was ever a nursing home?

http://www.twbc-apps.co.uk/planning/2003/14feb03.htm

Nigel
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Thursday 11 February 10 22:43 GMT (UK)
Hi Nigel,

great minds think alike  ;D

That's what I was doing when your reply popped up  ;)

I hadn't searched for Langton only Laugton so was having a look see what I could find. The planning app was interesting. Seems there was a Northfield Lodge and Northfield house, Seems almost certain it might have been a nursing Home at one time.
Thanks for taking an interest.
Val
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: andysue on Wednesday 18 May 11 19:03 BST (UK)
I believe that Northfields in Langton Green was a nursing home.  I was born there in 1949!!
Title: Re: Northfield Laugton Kent
Post by: Myfanwy 65 on Wednesday 18 May 11 19:27 BST (UK)
How strange that you should post this today as it is her birthday  :) Sadly she passed away last year in australia.

Thanks for confirming that it was a nursing home.

Val