Gainsbough Lincs or Notts?

[miss piggy]

   hi  everyone                                                                                                                        trying to find out if gainsbough came under lincs or notts  as in census it say s misterton notts but family all reg at gainsbough   and does any one know were   scotter  lincs is or was   as looking for priest fam all reg in gainsbough 1900 on wards  thanks chris

[JillJ]

Hi,

Gainsborough is in Lincolnshire.  It is separated from Nottinghamshire by the river Trent.  Misterton is on the Notts. side of the river but this is probably one of the vagaries of Registration districts!

Scotter is about halfway between Gainsborough and Scunthorpe.

Hope this helps.

Jill

[Geoff E]

The places in Gainsborough Reg District are given here-

http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/gainsborough.html

[miss piggy]

thank u both for repling so quick i was confused as on bmd it said misterton lincs then leics and some notts

[laurenfay]

just to say thanks, as this was incredibly helpful for me too!