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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: wemorin3 on Sunday 18 February 18 02:43 GMT (UK)
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How is your reading of olde English? In the 1851 Census for Bilston, Wolverhampton, there is a listing for Richard Cooper (scribed Rich) with wife Ruth and 4 children. It appears to me that Richard was not born in England but I can't make out where his birthplace is, as written. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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Ancestry has it as "Whenlostt, Shropshire, England"
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Salop ... that's very definitely in England :) :)
JM
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A family tree has it as Much Wenlock, Shropshire
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Ancestry has it as "Whenlostt, Shropshire, England"
Thank you so much!
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Salop ... that's very definitely in England :) :)
JM
Great. Thank you.
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Can I just check that you're going for Much Wenlock which exists rather than Whenlosst which doesn't?
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Can I just check that you're going for Much Wenlock which exists rather than Whenlosst which doesn't?
I appreciate that. Ironically, I feel "whenlosst" quite often while researching.
;)
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Salop is a name for Shropshire. A Salopian is a person who lives/was born in the county.
According to Your Dictionary website* Salop is Early Middle English, a shortening of Salopescira from Old English Scropscir and possibly from Scrobbesbyrigscir.
Some of those words are proper Old English. What was written the census return was modern English, only a century or so since! I expected to see an extract in Secretary Hand or similar. ;D
* Definition from Webster's New World College Dictionary 5th Edition 2014
www.yourdictionary.com/salop
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Salop is a name for Shropshire. A Salopian is a person who lives/was born in the county.
According to Your Dictionary website* Salop is Early Middle English, a shortening of Salopescira from Old English Scropscir and possibly from Scrobbesbyrigscir.
Some of those words are proper Old English. What was written the census return was modern English, only a century or so since! I expected to see an extract in Secretary Hand or similar. ;D
* Definition from Webster's New World College Dictionary 5th Edition 2014
www.yourdictionary.com/salop
Thank you.