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1851 place of birth help please
« on: Wednesday 19 February 25 13:32 GMT (UK) »
I am having real trouble attaching an image of the handwriting I am having difficulty reading so I'm sorry to do this rather long winded way.

I am looking at the records for Sarah Coburn (MMN Leavis) 1851 England Census. She is at 172 Henderson St, Toxteth Park, Lancashire. She is aged 60 and the wife of Charles Coburn a Shipwright born in Cumbria, Penrith. The Head of this household is a John Essey, a 42 year old Shipwright born in Denton, Sussex.

It is Sarah's place of birth I am trying to decipher on this 1851 Census. The 1841 census confirms she is born out of county- but not the place. The 1861 Census suggests Dartmouth, Devon (she is living with her daughter Sarah Young in St Bees Whitehaven by then, but I have no other proof of this.) She has died by 1863.

Any thought on what this place reads would be welcome. The first word does look like 'Devon' but it may be my eyes deceiving me!

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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 13:41 GMT (UK) »
Will have a look but as an aside have you the marriage or a baptism for her which may give the place?
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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 13:42 GMT (UK) »
It looks like the enumerator has started to write Cumbria again then changed it to Devon.  I can't make out the name of the town but it doesn't look like Dartmouth.
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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 13:48 GMT (UK) »
No idea what that says but it’s been transcribed as Aughton. 
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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 13:54 GMT (UK) »
P2187/F399/pg14

Ancestry have transcribed it as Devon, Aughton, FindMyPast have it as Devon England
 and though I cant make it out, I don't think its either of those but agree the county does say Devon.

 Devon not an area I am familiar with so can't make an educated guess.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 14:04 GMT (UK) »
There's a Sarah Leeves baptism in 1791 at Chardstock, Devon. Parents Joseph and Elizabeth.
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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 14:47 GMT (UK) »
Family Search have transcribed it as Kingmoor
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGP5-W6P?lang=en

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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 14:49 GMT (UK) »
Isn’t there a Kingswear in Devon? 
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Re: 1851 place of birth help please
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 19 February 25 15:05 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Milliepede on Wednesday 19 February 25 14:49 GMT (UK)
Isn’t there a Kingswear in Devon?

Yes
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Kingswear/Gaz1868

and its near Dartmouth, so could well fit with the later census?

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