Where is Everstow nr Brig please???

[Redroger]

An "aitch" H; should be pronounced as aitch, but often I have noticed in parts of Lincolnshire pronounced as "Haitch" particularly by those who often drop it at the front of words.

[Hibee]

Would it not be odd if Hibaldstow were twice misinterpreted as Everstow?

Hibee

[BillyF]

Going by the number of syllables, I would assume it to be Hibaldstow, but just to throw this in- there is  Horkstow which is also near Brigg but in the other direction.

[Navarino]

 How to pronounce "H" is often a matter for disagreement here in Australia.

All these ideas are a great help.

[Geoff-E]

RAINFORD is an unusual name in Lincs - of nearly 23,000 "R" marriages in my index, there are only 13 RAINFORDs, 32 RAINFORTHS and 15 RAINSFORD/RAINSFORTH. 

So to find one in Hibaldstow, not the biggest of places, (1796 John RAINFORD/Mary ELLIS) seems quite coincidental.

[Redroger]

Would it not be odd if Hibaldstow were twice misinterpreted as Everstow?

Hibee

Perthaps I'm thicker than usual tonight, but I can't see anywhere in the posts where this suggestion has been made. Please enlighten me.

[pamthomas]

Would it not be odd if Hibaldstow were twice misinterpreted as Everstow?

Hibee

Perthaps I'm thicker than usual tonight, but I can't see anywhere in the posts where this suggestion has been made. Please enlighten me.

First post, where it's stated as 'native place' of the ancestor.
Second post, where there's reference to it in the link (to the 1911 census).

[Redroger]

Thanks Pam! Think it has to be Hibaldstow largely because of the number of syllables as previously stated. If there were any incidences of the surname in Horkstow it would wreck things though!

[Hibee]

A third reference to Everstow(n) in here......If it were me, I'd dismiss the Hibaldstow theory.

Everstown, near Bregy, Lincs..........

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/h/e/Jody-Mahan-KS/GENE1-0004.html

Hibee