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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Somerset => Topic started by: cottonflower on Thursday 19 August 10 02:16 BST (UK)
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I have a g.g.g. grandfather, surname Bath, from a place that looks like Namlet(?) Somersetshire. Just wondered if anyone knows where that was.
Thanks
Sarah
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This is a good list of places
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins//kepn/browse.php
There is a Pawlett and a Curry Mallet and Sutton Mallet and Shepton Mallet
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Hi
Might it be Nempnett:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/NempnettThrubwell/index.html
Gadget
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Thanks both very much, that's very useful. I'm thinking possibly Lamyatt from the list. But could also be Nempnett Thrubwell -
'This place.. has been variously written as Nimet, Nempnett, Nemlet http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3379/nempnett_thrubwell.html
And from Wikipedia - The name Nempnett Thrubwell is believed to mean 'The grove at the village well' from the Celtic nemett and the Old English wiell.'
Need to do a bit more digging.
Thanks again
Sarah
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I have a g.g.g. grandfather, surname Bath, from a place that looks like Namlet(?) Somersetshire. Just wondered if anyone knows where that was.
Hi Sarah
If he came from the Bath area - as many people with the name did - there is Nimlet, about 4 miles north of Bath. It is officially in Gloucestershire, Cold Ashton parish, but right on the county border.
Where did you find the reference to Namlet?
David
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Hi David,
So it could also be Nimlet. I found the reference on the 1881 census as Namlet. Then as Namlett on an 1855 birth certificate of his son. On 1861 census it says Nomlet. I have also seen another original document, but frustratingly i just can't recall it at the moment, where it looks like Lembett or something. Thanks for the the Nimlet reference, I never would have found that.
Thanks,
Sarah
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So it could also be Nimlet. I found the reference on the 1881 census as Namlet. Then as Namlett on an 1855 birth certificate of his son. I have also seen another original document, but frustratingly i just can't recall it at the moment, where it looks like Lembett or something. Thanks for the the Nimlet reference, I never would have found that.
Hi Sarah, you've got a tricky one there.
I assume your ancestor is the George Bath living in Stockton in 1881, whose birthplace does look like Namlet. In 1871 he's at Bedwellty and it looks like Lemlet, presumably that's the one you'd seen but couldn't find again. In 1861 he's at Abedare and the birthplace looks like Nomlet, or maybe Momlet.
In 1851, the only likely candidate I can find is a George Bath living at Cwm Celyn, Abersytruth with his parents George and Mary Bath and several brothers and sisters, all born at Littleton, Somerset. There are several Littletons, but theirs is High Littleton, as they can be found there in the 1841 census.
However, I can't see how (High) Littleton becomes Nomlet/Namlet/Lemlet, even when said with a Somerset accent in Wales or County Durham.
The High Littleton registers are available through FreeREG, but only George and Mary's younger children appear there. Their daughter Heppe was baptised at the Primitive Methodist chapel in Frome in 1834, with parents' address Farmborough, but no others appear on the Non-Conformist register site. Perhaps they were baptised at a chapel whose registers are not online.
It seems reasonably likely that this is the right family, but I still don't know where Namlet was. Perhaps it was part of High Littleton, or perhaps the family lived elsewhere for a while.
David
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Hello again,
I see elsewhere you've found that your George's parents were George Bath and Ann Stevens, so my theory that it was George and Mary from High Littlerton was wrong.
George Bath and Ann Stevens were married in Bedminster, 21 Dec 1835, both "of this parish" and previously unmarried.
Bedminster was a large Somerset parish next to Bristol, part of it effectively a suburb of Bristol. It was quite common for couples from North Somerset villages to marry there, describing themselves as otp although it can only have been temporary. It's 8 miles from Nempnett Thrubwell, so that still looks like the best candidate for Namlet.
Best Wishes
David