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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: meeganf on Thursday 11 June 20 05:24 BST (UK)
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Hi
Can anyone suggest the name of this town please? Looks like Easoonphiles to me but can't find anything similar
Thank you
Meegan
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Hi Meegan
Which parish was the record from??
Kay
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The town is Earsdon.
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There was a farm called Earsdon Hill? https://maps.nls.uk/view/101027100#zoom=5&lat=5240&lon=3257&layers=BT
Kay
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Hi Kay - could go with Easdon Hill except for what looks like p and an e between the words. But the area would fit
Thanks everyone
Meegan
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Looks like Easdonfochiles. ;D
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There was a farm called Earsdon Hill? https://maps.nls.uk/view/101027100#zoom=5&lat=5240&lon=3257&layers=BT
Kay
...and just to the right of Earsdon Hill are Peigh Hills and Peighhills Wood. However that might be pronounced! Could well end up as something like whatever has been written in the entry here.
Best regards,
Karen
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There was a farm called Earsdon Hill? https://maps.nls.uk/view/101027100#zoom=5&lat=5240&lon=3257&layers=BT
Kay
...and just to the right of Earsdon Hill are Peigh Hills and Peighhills Wood. However that might be pronounced! Could well end up as something like whatever has been written in the entry here.
Best regards,
Karen
It could well be a shortened Peigh Hills (farm)after Earsdon
Kay
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Thanks to you all, think the Earsdon Peigh Hill looks likely
Cheers and many thanks for racking your brains
Meegan
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Here's a link showing inhabitants: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mHRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=earsdon+peighills&source=bl&ots=rVq6F1gkAO&sig=ACfU3U35Bzrkmmm3fThv7qLOMSVEVHfTCg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyhc_5jvnpAhXL4zgGHe05CegQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=earsdon%20peighills&f=false (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mHRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=earsdon+peighills&source=bl&ots=rVq6F1gkAO&sig=ACfU3U35Bzrkmmm3fThv7qLOMSVEVHfTCg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyhc_5jvnpAhXL4zgGHe05CegQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=earsdon%20peighills&f=false)
Peter
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It could be Earsdon, North Shields. I've had a number of family members with this address.
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Thanks to you all, think the Earsdon Peigh Hill looks likely
It reads as Easdon pihiles, which I think is most likely a phonetic rendering of Earsdon Peigh Hill as suggested earlier in the thread.
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It could be Earsdon, North Shields. I've had a number of family members with this address.
That's the 'other' Earsdon! There are two Earsdons in Northumberland, and the one where Peigh Hills is located is some 10 miles north of Morpeth in the Parish of Hebron.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=55.24507&lon=-1.68202&layers=6&right=BingHyb