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Offline nellie d

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Devon Place Name Help Needed
« on: Sunday 14 September 25 20:07 BST (UK) »
I thought I would post this on the Devon page as a familiarity with place names might be more helpful than ease of reading old handwriting.
The place I am trying to discover is circled in yellow in the accompanying photo.
It has been transcribed at Southminster, which is in Essex not Devon and I really don’t think it looks like that. The only Devon place name with South that I can think of, apart from South Hams, is South Milton.
Does anyone have any thoughts please?
Mayhew,Birch,Coates,Norman - Suffolk
Masters - Somerset
Richardson, Masters, Langridge, Dyer, Chambers - Sussex
Dyer, Luscombe, Hurrell - Devon
Chambers - Brecon
Lambden, Hawkins - Berkshire
Biggs, Cooper, Druce, Hedges, Haywood, Francis,Ward, Skidmore, Pinfold, Dorn, Gardener, Hopgood - Oxfordshire
Francis, Clarke - Lambeth/Surrey
Rowland, Emmett, Lockhart - Southwark/Middlesex
Simpson, Exall, Mann, Frisby,  - Kent
Ward, Teasdale, Smalwood - Yorkshire
Tomkins, Bayliss - Warwickshire

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Re: Devon Place Name Help Needed
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 September 25 20:24 BST (UK) »
South Molton
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Re: Devon Place Name Help Needed
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 September 25 22:31 BST (UK) »
I'd agree it could well be South Moulton.
About 10 miles south of Barnstaple.
It has a nice Victorian pannier market if I remember correctly!
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: Devon Place Name Help Needed
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 September 25 22:58 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the confirmation sugarbakers and goldie61  :-*
Mayhew,Birch,Coates,Norman - Suffolk
Masters - Somerset
Richardson, Masters, Langridge, Dyer, Chambers - Sussex
Dyer, Luscombe, Hurrell - Devon
Chambers - Brecon
Lambden, Hawkins - Berkshire
Biggs, Cooper, Druce, Hedges, Haywood, Francis,Ward, Skidmore, Pinfold, Dorn, Gardener, Hopgood - Oxfordshire
Francis, Clarke - Lambeth/Surrey
Rowland, Emmett, Lockhart - Southwark/Middlesex
Simpson, Exall, Mann, Frisby,  - Kent
Ward, Teasdale, Smalwood - Yorkshire
Tomkins, Bayliss - Warwickshire
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