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Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« on: Friday 20 October 17 22:01 BST (UK) »
Hello, please see the attached. It looks like Oauley Hey or Oavley Hey to me? This is a baptism in Altrincham, Manchester. The resident parish is Northenden, so I am assuming it is in this vicinity.

Thank you so much for any help. I've been staring at it for so long the letters no longer make any sense at all!
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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #1 on: Friday 20 October 17 22:16 BST (UK) »
Haveleyhey ?

NLS map ... http://maps.nls.uk/view/102341005
northwest of Northenden
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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #2 on: Friday 20 October 17 22:18 BST (UK) »
Hi

I wonder if it is Alverley Hey/Haveley Hey as mentioned on this site:

http://www.wythenshawe.btck.co.uk/earlydays/timelines

(Mentioned under EARLY 14th century.

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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 21 October 17 03:26 BST (UK) »
The words as written are fairly clearly:  Oavley Hey

The extract supplies plenty of rs for comparison, and the u in Warburton.

It's a very neat and disciplined hand.

If you hunt around nearby you might find a capital O name, just to be sure.


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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 21 October 17 08:50 BST (UK) »
Earliest map I can find is
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=53.3835&lon=-2.3424&layers=6&b=1
but it is late 19th century. Can't see a suitable place name.



ADDED: Whoops, didn't see sugarbakers already posted map  :-[

To bear out what horselydown86 says, there is a '0' in '20 Jan' at end of entry, although '0' & 'O' may not have been written the same then.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 21 October 17 09:40 BST (UK) »
I don't think it's necessary to concentrate on what it says; it's quite clearly "Oavley Hey", but where it might be. Given the dispersed pattern of settlement between Northenden and Altrincham at this time, I think it likely that Oavley Hey was most likely a farm or simply a small group of buildings rather than some form of vilage or hamlet.

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Re: Place name near Altrincham/Hale/Manchester
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 21 October 17 10:49 BST (UK) »
It looks like one of the variant forms of Haveleyhey was Overley Hey (1700s?) - see
http://placenames.org.uk/id/placename/44/011186

It's not a very big leap from that to Oavley Hey.