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COMPLETED THANKYOU Where the hell are the tar pits?
« on: Thursday 10 April 08 14:47 UTC (UK) »
Sorry if I sound terse, but It's midnight in Australia and I can't find what I want:

Where the hell are the tar pits, Bathpool, West Monkton, Taunton?

That's what it says on my ggrandmother's birth certificate in 1910.  I'd like to see a map, but when I google it I get googledegook.

Surely the place names haven't changed that much since 1910?

Really I'd just like to know whether it really is a tar pit, what it's there for and what it looks like.  I have a hunch that it's just part of a farm though. 

Does anyone know the area?

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 April 08 14:55 UTC (UK) »


Could it be Tarr Steps ?

I googled that and came up with a location but it doesn't seem close to where you mentioned.

Tarr Steps are famous in the west country.
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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 April 08 14:58 UTC (UK) »
I don't think so Huh

The birth certificate is hard to read, but I think it's also written in a census that someone looked up for me.  I'm trying to find it but the screen is blurry.

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:06 UTC (UK) »
 I'd like to see a map, but when I google it I get googledegook

You could go to http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ click on Maps and Pictures


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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:12 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: tristiw on Thursday 10 April 08 14:58 UTC (UK)
but I think it's also written in a census that someone looked up for me. I'm trying to find it but the screen is blurry.

What is her name and which census?

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:20 UTC (UK) »
Tar pits occur naturally in areas where oil is found but in the UK this is unlikely.

They are usually the result of chemical works or oil refining, being pits where the waste products are deposited.  This might help with your search

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Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:22 UTC (UK) »
Looking at your previous posts, I see that the census to which you refer is the 1881, the address being West Monckton, tarpit number one
See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283763.msg1798284.html#msg1798284

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:24 UTC (UK) »
Thanks for that info, Stan.    Grin   It looks very interesting.   Cool


Tristi, when looking for a place, particularly in relation to where it is in relation to other places, another suggestion to try is

   multimap

Its now practically 1:00 am here, and I'm off to bed.   Smiley  Smiley
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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:33 UTC (UK) »
Looking at the 1891, I see the family was living at Tanyard.

Looking at the original image for the 1881, (RG11/ 2369/ Folio88/p.8/Schedule 50)
I think the address in 1881 is not Tarpit, but Tanpit.

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 10 April 08 15:57 UTC (UK) »
The area you want is on Ordnance Survey 1:10560 County Series 2nd edition (c.1900) Sheet 71 Subsheet 05
Which shows some of the places named in the 1881 description of the Enumeration District.

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« Reply #10 on: Thursday 10 April 08 16:03 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: JenB on Thursday 10 April 08 15:33 UTC (UK)
Looking at the 1891, I see the family was living at Tanyard.

Looking at the original image for the 1881, (RG11/ 2369/ Folio88/p.8/Schedule 50)
I think the address in 1881 is not Tarpit, but Tanpit.
Jennifer



The 1881 LDS discs has    Tawpit No 2 Bathpool Smiley next to Birds Farm Bathpool

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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 10 April 08 18:52 UTC (UK) »
If it helps you are looking for somewhere close to a stream as running water would have been essential to the tanning process, particularly if they started from hides straight from the slaughtered animals.


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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse
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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 10 April 08 21:25 UTC (UK) »
In the 1891 Census it is Tanyard, between Bird's Farm and Heathfield Villa.


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Re: Where the hell are the tar pits?
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 10 April 08 21:48 UTC (UK) »
There is a Tanpitts Farm, Dyers Lane Bathpool TA2 8BZ which is where Bird's Farm was. You can enter the post code on
http://uk8.multimap.com/


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« Reply #14 on: Thursday 10 April 08 23:38 UTC (UK) »
If it's "Tawpit" then that could be interchangeable with "Tanpit" as tawing and tanning are parts of the same industry.
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