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Title: Where is this?
Post by: Mike Thw on Sunday 20 March 11 14:00 GMT (UK)

From the 1861 census, I have a birthplace recorded as "Wellington, Staffordshire"

I'm having some difficulty locating the place.
Lots of Wellingtons; not come across a reference to Staffordshire!!

Can somebody point me in the right direction, please?  :P

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 20 March 11 14:05 GMT (UK)

Mike it would be a good idea to check their birthplace in the 1851, and if still alive, the 1871 and later.  :)

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 20 March 11 14:08 GMT (UK)

These sound a little similar:

Wetton
Whittington
Willenhall

Was the person living out of Staffordshire? If so, maybe the enumerator misheard their place of birth?  :-\

Boundaries have changed and the place may now be in an adjoining county.

Eg there is a Weddington in Warwickshire ... (I haven't checked the whereabouts of this place though  :))

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 20 March 11 14:13 GMT (UK)

This may help:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/STAFFORDSHIRE/2002-06/1025049333

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 20 March 11 14:29 GMT (UK)

Yes it definitely refers to the parish of Wellington St Luke which was part of Hanley.I have quite a few ancestors who were married in the Church bearing the name.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: emarbe on Sunday 20 March 11 16:04 GMT (UK)

Try this link:
www.thepotteries.org/church/hanley/st_lukes.htm

Mike

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: Pety on Sunday 20 March 11 17:38 GMT (UK)

Hi, Yes there is a small area in Hanley called Wellington, which is now just Wellington Street. A school is in the same part of Hanley, also a Church, both called  St Lukes. To get there it is off Bucknall New Road.
         Sue.

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: Mike Thw on Sunday 20 March 11 19:11 GMT (UK)

Thanks for all the replies, people.

Birthplace before and after 1861 is Kinver, Staffordshire.

I'm inclined to think it should be Whittington - only about 3 miles East of Kinver. Maybe the accent confused confusion.

I've also found that some enumerators put "ditto" or " down to save writing a load of different placenames!

Mike

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: weste on Monday 21 March 11 18:29 GMT (UK)

I think it is salop/shropshire way. I know it goes as staffs on the census which i looked at. I have a relative who was born there at first i thought it was one elsewhere and then realised.  It was saying one thing on a transcript, i think hampshire and on the census and it was crossed off saying staffs.  I have seen some parish records for wellington at shropshire archives. I think i've been through on the train to shrewsbury from wolverhampton. I think my cousin says there were a few antique shops there where his mom and friends used to go to.

Title: Re: Where is this?
Post by: corb66 on Friday 25 March 11 23:19 GMT (UK)

I think it could be the Wellington that can be found in the western side of Telford Shropshire, the registry office was situated there certainly into the 1960s & only 10 miles from where I live.

It was once a seperate town, but has, in recent years been swallowed up by the ever expanding new town of Telford.

Kinver is also in Shropshire south of Bridgenorth & approx 25 miles as the crow flies  from Wellington.