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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #36 on: Sunday 06 March 22 15:29 GMT (UK) »
There is also a Bethlehem in Wales, and I have rellies in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #37 on: Sunday 06 March 22 16:17 GMT (UK) »
And don't get me started on Uk multiple places

Norfolk has two Fritton's But one used to be in Suffolk until border reorg in 1972.

Two Yarmouth's one Great one not so much.

Hythe now there's a unique name, no it means Haven or small harbour. Hence there being three of them. Essex, Hampshire and Kent



Dow/Dowe Norfolk and Suffolk
Mulley/Wilden Suffolk
Loome/lombe Norfolk

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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #38 on: Sunday 06 March 22 16:41 GMT (UK) »
I was puzzled about a family who had children baptised at regular intervals over many years at a church in Lancashire (England) while their father's abode was a foreign, exotic place. Had he returned every couple of years, impregnated his wife and gone abroad again? Was the wife telling fibs about her husband being the father? What was more puzzling was parents and children were all buried in the local churchyard although their abode was still the foreign place. Investigating & poring over old maps, I found the exotic place - it was a farm on the moors above the village . 
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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #39 on: Sunday 06 March 22 18:00 GMT (UK) »
  "Hythe now there's a unique name, no it means Haven or small harbour. Hence there being three of them. Essex, Hampshire and Kent."
   A good old Anglo-Saxon name then!
Pay, Kent
Codham/Coltham, Kent
Kent, Felton, Essex
Staples, Wiltshire


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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #40 on: Sunday 06 March 22 23:06 GMT (UK) »
There is a Thetford in Lincolnshire as well as Norfolk.

The confusion between Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (often known as Yarmouth) and Yarmouth IOW is quite astounding as well. An ancestor mentions a "cosen of Yarmouth" in his will, but Yarmouth Norfolk or IOW? I have tried to trace his time in either but to no avail yet.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #41 on: Monday 07 March 22 11:10 GMT (UK) »
Jericho near Bury, Lancs.
Gibraltar, near Silverdale, north Lancs. and also Buckinghamshire
Bermuda, Warwickshire
Palestine, Hampshire
Egypt, Buckinghamshire
Philadelphia, Tyne & Wear
Florence, Staffordshire
Hollywood, near Birmingham

and many more in England alone.
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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #42 on: Monday 07 March 22 11:38 GMT (UK) »
   I can't at the moment think of any foreign placenames round here, though there may be some tucked away. I suspect many of those mentioned are 19th century urban developments?
Pay, Kent
Codham/Coltham, Kent
Kent, Felton, Essex
Staples, Wiltshire

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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #43 on: Monday 07 March 22 12:58 GMT (UK) »
Liverpool has an Islington and a Kensington.

Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Where is Wales?
« Reply #44 on: Monday 07 March 22 13:07 GMT (UK) »
There is a Nazareth in Flanders,near Gent,and a Bethlehem in Wales.

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