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Re: Confused about this 1861 census Cumberland place name
« Reply #18 on: Friday 16 August 24 22:05 BST (UK) »
That's a brilliant find^ and looks very very plausible doesn't it?^  Thank you^^ :)
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Re: Confused about this 1861 census Cumberland place name
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 17 August 24 11:21 BST (UK) »
Good find, Alan.

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Re: Confused about this 1861 census Cumberland place name
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 17 August 24 12:32 BST (UK) »
From GenUKI (https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/HolmCultram):

"HOLME-CULTRAM, (or Abbey Holme), a parish in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county Cumberland, 6 miles N.W. of Wigton, 9 N.E. of Aspatria, and 15 E. of Maryport. Abbey Holme is its post town."
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Re: Confused about this 1861 census Cumberland place name
« Reply #21 on: Monday 02 September 24 16:55 BST (UK) »
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Re: Confused about this 1861 census Cumberland place name
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 18 September 24 17:00 BST (UK) »
As soon as I saw this I thought of St Mary's Holme, Lanercost. At school I was in same class as a lad who lived there. It is about half a mile upstream from Lanercost Abbey.
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