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Topic: Help with town name in will (Read 415 times)
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katefarr
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Hi
Just wondering if someone might be able to decipher the town name on the image below.
Thank you
Kate
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Australia - Hitchen, Staggs, Little, Warren, White, McLoughin (and variants).
Lanc, Eng - Hitchen, Stirrup, Gould, Foster, Cowens, Howard, White, Coppock, Atkinson
Dur, Eng- Cowens
Northum, Eng - Cowens, Noble, Dunn
Kent, Eng - Staggs, Albury, Miller
Hamp,Eng, London - Warren, Peates, Price
Germany/East Prussia - Kammer, Weber, Ostach, Staub
Armagh, Nth Ireland - Little, Boyd
Fermanagh, Nth Ireland - McLoughlin
Flintshire, Wales - Jones, Lewis
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AMBLY
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 4580
Falkland Islands "Desire The Right"
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Hi
I think it says :
New Town
N = the same as N in Navy.
e = same as e in "Surgeon", or "Majesty's" or "being" (the latter word as written after "Navy".
Cheers
AMBLY
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Springbok
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Looks as if it could be Portsea ,(nr. Portsmouth) as when Southampton was a county itcovered a large area
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Dorset: Ackerman,Bungey,Bunter Chant,Hyle
Islington:Bedford, Eaton,Wilkins
Beds,Fulham: Brazier
Shoreditch: Burton,Coverdale
Essex ,Clerkenwell:Craswell,Cresswell
St.Lukes Middx:Doughty, Dunkley
Andover/IOW/Fulham:Gasser
Fulham: Neal
Bucks:Putnam,Wingrove
Bullwell.Notts:Wilkinson
Clerkenwell/Islington:Wyllie
Herts/ Tottenham/Walthamstow:Young
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katefarr
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Posts: 118
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Hi
Thanks so much for your help, New Town is what I had but I thought I may have made a mistake as apparently there is no New Town in Portsea or perhaps the mistake I made was making it Newtown 
Much Appreciated.
Kate
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Australia - Hitchen, Staggs, Little, Warren, White, McLoughin (and variants).
Lanc, Eng - Hitchen, Stirrup, Gould, Foster, Cowens, Howard, White, Coppock, Atkinson
Dur, Eng- Cowens
Northum, Eng - Cowens, Noble, Dunn
Kent, Eng - Staggs, Albury, Miller
Hamp,Eng, London - Warren, Peates, Price
Germany/East Prussia - Kammer, Weber, Ostach, Staub
Armagh, Nth Ireland - Little, Boyd
Fermanagh, Nth Ireland - McLoughlin
Flintshire, Wales - Jones, Lewis
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Little Nell
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It does look like New Town, doesn't it. Then it says in p[ar]ish of Portsea in the County of Southampton.
I wonder if the records office in Portsmouth may be able to assist here. Perhaps an e-mail asking if they know if any area of Portsea was ever known as New Town around that date.
Nell
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katefarr
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I will do that Nell, thanks. 
Kate
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Australia - Hitchen, Staggs, Little, Warren, White, McLoughin (and variants).
Lanc, Eng - Hitchen, Stirrup, Gould, Foster, Cowens, Howard, White, Coppock, Atkinson
Dur, Eng- Cowens
Northum, Eng - Cowens, Noble, Dunn
Kent, Eng - Staggs, Albury, Miller
Hamp,Eng, London - Warren, Peates, Price
Germany/East Prussia - Kammer, Weber, Ostach, Staub
Armagh, Nth Ireland - Little, Boyd
Fermanagh, Nth Ireland - McLoughlin
Flintshire, Wales - Jones, Lewis
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Little Nell
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I've just had another look - it's not the parish of Portsea but the Isle of Portsea.  I really should wear my glasses.
New Town is near the Haslar Hospital site across the harbour - but it isn't on Portsea Island or in the parish or Portsea. So it is a very peculiar way to describe it if it is the one in Gosport.
Nell
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Little Nell
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Yes - there are some separate parishes.
Newtown in Southampton formed from South Stoneham and St Mary in 1853, so I don't think that can be relevant;
Newtown formed 1851 from Soberton and Hambledon - again, probably not relevant;
Newtown near Burghclere, which is up on the Berkshire border.
None of them can be said to be located on the Isle of Portsea. 
I'm a bit mystified by this one.
Nell
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Snapshot_of_T_Warren_will.pdf