Help reading a Yorkshire/Durham place name

[seed_pod]

Hm... Scoonbank is definitely in the right place though.  I think you're right.  Even despite the handwriting.

[littleclaire]

Perhaps by default then?

If you squint at it you can just about see it!!
 
Claire

[seed_pod]

 

Scoon Bank is in the same parish as some of my other ancestors!  Brilliant!

Thanks Claire, that's given me plenty to go on

[Ecneps]

Hi,

You might find this list useful:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/index.html

Have you tried looking at a later census to see if they're written more clearly?  Sometimes they were written by the enumerator just the way they sounded

Barbara 

[seed_pod]

Lol, just realised you've just solved another big mystery Claire!

I found a website which claimed my ggg-granddad's daughter was born in "West Skeen, Bank, Transvaal, South Africa".

I spent weeks trying to find out why my ancestors would have been in the Transvaal in 1800, trawling through passenger lists, all to no avail...

[littleclaire]

Lol 
I often get people in the Western Sahara in Durham.....
Or Lechtenstein in Leicestershire

Grand!!!

[seed_pod]

Thanks Barbara, that's really useful, I'll save it as a link 

[stanmapstone]

Lol 
I often get people in the Western Sahara in Durham.....
Or Lechtenstein in Leicestershire

Grand!!!

These transcription errors usually come about from the use of drop-down lists by the transcribers. They type in the first few letters and the list 'suggests' a possbile placename which is very easy for the transcriber to select. ESH is the three letter country code for Western Sahara, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3

Stan

[RellieRetriever]

How about this place?
SCOON BANK, in the parish of Romaldkirk, wapentake of Gilling West; 6 miles WNW. of Barnard Castle.
I was using that GENIKI index of places in Yorkshire.