Hulls of Romaldkirk in South Africa oops Yorkshire COMPLETED!

[seed_pod]

Hi

I've been researching the Hulls of Romaldkirk, Durham and have reason to believe my gggg grandfather (Jonathan Hull) and his wife (Jane Hull) had a child (also Jane) in Transvaal.  I don't know her exact birth date but she was christened in Sept 1825 in Romaldkirk. But her place of birth shows as West Skeen, Bank, Transvaal.

I found this info from a random google search which brought up the following page:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ancestorsearchresults.asp?LDS=0&last_name=hull&date_range=0&date_range_index=0&standardize=N

My questions are:

1) Where is West Skeen?  Or Bank?  I'm unsure whether this is a spelling mistake, a tiny place, a place name that's changed or the name of a ship even?

2) When I googled "Bank, Transvaal" I also brought up people on the same website (unrelated) who were born in "Windy, Bank, Transvaal" and "Dogger, Bank, Transvaal".  All were christened in Britain.  Why would this be?

3) I've read a little about British settlers around that time and it seems they would have been more likely to be in the Cape Colony rather than Transvaal.

I've searched the 1820 lists of passengers (on the 1820settlers website and theshiplist.com) and they weren't on any of them.  I'm unsure when they went there, why they would have gone and where (exactly) they lived. 

I'm also presuming they were originally from Romaldkirk, or Britain, but I guess this could be wrong.

Sorry for the long list of Q's - hope someone can help!

Thanks,

Seed_Pod

[seed_pod]

Mystery solved.  "West Skeen, Bank, Transvaal" turns out to be "West Scoon Bank, Yorkshire."

What a waste of time, I've been trying to research this all week 

[IndisVanyar]

LOL!!!

Was it a disappointment to find that they hailed from Yorkshire and not the Transvaal?

This must class as one of the best 'red herring moments' in recent weeks here on Rootschat.

It has given me a good chuckle on a cold wet morning here in sunny Suffolk

Nell

[seed_pod]

Well, I must admit it would have been brilliant to have South African settler ancestors, but all in all it was more amusing than disappointing!  I'm just glad I'd only been researching for one week...