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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #9 on: Friday 25 February 05 17:45 GMT (UK) »
Nope its not changed but we (whenI lived down there) used to distinguish the two by saying Tun and T-on or For tunbridge wells wed just say the Wells.  In fact I was recently  talking to a friend in that area and we both just said The Wells.  If we were to give Tunbridge Wells its full title it would be Royal Tunbridge Wells. 

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #10 on: Friday 25 February 05 18:43 GMT (UK) »
Yes, have done that too.  Also, if I remember correctly Tunbridge Wells often got referred to as The Wells.  Mind you I wonder how many locals actually called it Royal Tunbridge Wells??!  We moved from Tonbridge to Royal Leamington Spa, but few if any locals ever refer to it by it's full name, and the local TV news have a habit of only calling it Leamington!

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #11 on: Friday 14 July 06 10:31 BST (UK) »
I believe Taylor Street was in Southborough (Tonbridge)
I am at the library so my files are at home but I am sure I have this Street on one of my ancestors, will look when I get home and come back to you. Ann
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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #12 on: Friday 14 July 06 11:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Moors, Southborough would make excellent sense.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #13 on: Friday 14 July 06 22:20 BST (UK) »
Southborough comes right in the middle between Tonbridge and Tunbridge.  Also as the worst roads when an accident blocks the A21

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 18 July 06 14:47 BST (UK) »
Re Taylor Street I h
I have relatives living there..
1871 at 169 Taylor St. Southborough St. Peters ward
 I think ref. RG 10/930/80/page 31
1881 at 61 Taylor Street Southborough I think ref. H0107463/506/6
1901 at 9 Tayloe Street Southborough St. Peters

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 18 July 06 16:01 BST (UK) »
Weren't called Reed, were they?
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #16 on: Friday 21 July 06 09:47 BST (UK) »
No the surname is Jeffery, and always spelt the same way. Was the info. useful? Ann
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Bubb Berks/Bucks  Jeffs/Staffs  Baines/Notts  Lambert/Lincs  West/Spinks & Dey-Dye/Norfolk Morrish/Stoke Newington Mddx. Lovell/ Hackney,Shoreditch Blackshaw Clerkenwell/Rotherhithe,. Day& Downer I.O.W. Harknett Essex. Gulley Westminster. Sealey Norfolk. Newling Cambridge/Essex/Herts. Hughes Aldershot/South London. Hartgroves Essex.

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Re: Tonbridge / Tunbridge
« Reply #17 on: Friday 21 July 06 11:02 BST (UK) »
Yes, thanks for everyone's input.  :-*
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.