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Re: Place of Birth
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 05 October 21 06:57 BST (UK) »
Re; the Starmond or Wormond...
A slow process but maps.nls.uk website has historical maps and if you have an area that is a focus for the family and a year range you're after e.g. between 1850 and 1890, you can find detailed maps of the area and peruse the map (very slow process) to find places. sometimes they are spelled slightly differently to the documents you may have. i have managed to find a few tiny locations in Scotland by this method.
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Re: Place of Birth
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 05 October 21 09:16 BST (UK) »


Possibly William's birthplace is Crowfield?  near to Crowfield are Little Stonham and Stonham Aspal. Might these be 'Starmond' in 1871?  https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Crowfield

Not far away from these two places is Stowupland. Could this be pronounced Starmond ??
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Re: Place of Birth
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 06 October 21 04:23 BST (UK) »
1891 down as William Tillett has birthplace Whitton Suffolk.

Sorry that might be a different chap  :-[

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There is Sharman Ave, Watton Thetford not far from the Suffolk border

In my opinion the marriage residence is not always the place of birth. Never forget Workhouse and overseers accounts records of birth