Deciphering a placename

[Pandabeary]

Please can anyone interpret what this says? It's a place of birth in the 1851 census in Norfolk,
Thanks for your help!

[crisane]

google has a Strumpshaw in Norfolk.

[sugarbakers]

Strumpshaw, Norfolk, also listed in Phillimore's Atlas and Index of Parish Registers.

[Pandabeary]

Excellent, thank you. I was googling all kinds of possibilities but thought it ended in 'ham' not 'shaw' - no wonder I had no joy!

[The Yokel]

If you need Strumpshaw PR's they can be found here

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ebq/

[Duodecem]

The Norfolk Transcription Archive has a list of Norfolk parishes which can be very useful.
http://www.genealogy.doun.org/transcriptions/parishes.php?letter=S

[Pandabeary]

Thanks for the link to the PRs - I found his baptism straightaway and although it's a common surname - Woods - the John Woods baptised in Strumpshaw in 1817 fits perfectly with the 1851 census and he's the only person with that name in the whole baptism record, so thank you! On the downside there's no siblings I can see, so now I'm working on what to try next to get more info

[The Yokel]

There is a marriage of John Woods and Mary Parker (10 May 1813) in neighboring Rockland St Mary, but I can't find any evidence to prove they are the parents of John baptised in Strumpshaw.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ebv/

yokel