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COMPLETED THANKS - Is that address really what it looks like?
« on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:00 BST (UK) »
Hi all, just found this census image for some rellies & had to laugh at the address.  Does everyone agree that it really is what it looks like, or have you any other ideas.

Maybe someone knows the area & is familiar with this address, in which case can you show me on a map?

Finally, I tried googling Sluts End, Ampthill & just got a load of sites about people meeting others & walking their dogs - very strange!  Regards, TonyR.
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Rooney Carlow/Wicklow to Dublin to Belfast to Birmingham. Johnston & Smyth Co Down. Crowe & Ryan Tipperary. Day, Rhodes & Johnston Barrow-in-Furness. Day, Bailey & Page Bedford. Day & Mead Somerset. Rhodes, White & Taylor Swadlincote. Reynolds Haverfordwest. Weekly Fishguard. Barzey Wales.
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:08 BST (UK) »
It does look like it Grin

Alternatively Sleets maybe?  Smiley

(can you give the census reference?)
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:10 BST (UK) »



I've just checked this on the 1841 Find my Past address
search - according to them it certainly existed!  Grin

http://www.findmypast.com/CensusAddressSearchServlet?censusYear=1841
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:21 BST (UK) »
Just for the chuckle - anyone ever tried to write the above word on this site? It's automatically turned into:

very *friendly* person

I love it Grin Grin
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:32 BST (UK) »
According to the BLARS online catalogue at
http://blars.adlibsoft.com/ it seems to have
been known variously as Shutts/Shitts/Slutts/Sluts End,
and is now Woburn Street

David
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:36 BST (UK) »
Oh ROFL David! Not getting any better is it?  Grin
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:41 BST (UK) »
It's just along the road from Shitlington,
now known as Shillington. No idea why they
changed the name in the 1800s
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:41 BST (UK) »
 Grin Grin Grin

wonder what the mods will make of that Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


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Harby,Garton,Drury,Duncombe,Booth,Catton,Barker, Kirkby, Wilson. Lincolnshire,
Also Murkin's, Jeffery,Pettitt,Carter, from Suffolk/Cambridgeshire boarder
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 04 October 07 18:51 BST (UK) »
Dunno, but the rockers didn't object
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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 04 October 07 19:03 BST (UK) »
Nor should the mockers  Cool
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 04 October 07 20:18 BST (UK) »
Thanks to everyone for their input, well it made me smile.

I couldn't get onto findmypast as suggested by Pels but David's post that it became Woburn Street is interesting because that's where the family are living in 1851.

So potentially they hadn't moved house, it was the street that was renamed.  Thanks again, TonyR.
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 06 October 07 11:46 BST (UK) »
Hi

Shillington [as was Shitlington] is a lovely place - even if the church is on a hill and the gravestones are made of sandy stuff so you cant read the inscriptions!

Sluts Lane in Ampthill may be called - ''Persons of Easy Virtue Lane'' ....I dont know?  Grin  No, I think David is right - it became Woburn Road

What about Littleworth [a hamlet near Cotton End]?  That goes back to the doomsday when it got its name I have heard.  Refering to the property - not the inhabitants?  Or, perhaps to both?!

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Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
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Re: Is that address really what it looks like?
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 06 October 07 12:13 BST (UK) »
also seems to have destroyed the 'Google Adverts are based on thread content' theory ....   Grin
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PLEDGER – 1678, Gt BardField, Essex
EVERETT - 1830, Scoles, Norfolk & Epping, SX
OSGATHORPE - 1825, North Kensington
LILLEY – 1711, Ickleton, Cambs
DAVISON – 1700-1710, Horncastle & Coningsby, Lincs
BOWER – 1690-1700, Killinworth, Lincs
CHASE – 1735, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
LAIRD – 1777, Portsmouth, Hants & Kings Lynn, Norfolk
GOWENLOCK –
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