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Title: Link: Which British County?
Post by: Ticker on Sunday 13 March 05 09:59 GMT (UK)
The Gazetteer of British Place Names (http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/) is a very useful site which provides a British place name index showing the County in which the place lies and other information.
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: omskirk on Thursday 08 December 05 17:12 GMT (UK)
Thanks, that will be very useful
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: mrswoman on Monday 19 November 07 08:20 GMT (UK)
Hello Omskirk, I love the picture of your Granny, how did you come by it, was it passed down the family?  How lucky you are having a picture of your Gtx4 Granny, we would all love one of those, thanks for sharing it with us.
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: omskirk on Monday 19 November 07 11:31 GMT (UK)
Dear Mrswoman,
                          I realise how lucky I am, I have pics of all my grandparents from her to me, I found them by chance whilst looking for an address where one of my ancestors lived and I was directed to a house which had a wall full of photos of all my fathers line back to Sarah, I also found her grave.
The picture is a pen and watercolour painted in 1843.
Thank you for your comments, I do appreciate very much what I have
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: mrswoman on Monday 19 November 07 17:21 GMT (UK)
Thanks for telling me the history, I am in awe of the picture, and she was 89!  I think it is a wonderful piece of history, many thanks from mrswoman.
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: ambyrne1 on Monday 17 August 09 14:16 BST (UK)
Hi
I have registration for my uncles death but it states the district as Conway. Do you think this is a typo as I cannot find any Conway as a district in the U.K.?

Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 17 August 09 14:20 BST (UK)
Details of Conway registration district from Free BMD-
www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/districts.pl?r=1016801&d=bmd_1247779949
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: Stovepipe on Monday 17 August 09 14:22 BST (UK)

I have registration for my uncles death but it states the district as Conway. Do you think this is a typo as I cannot find any Conway as a district in the U.K.?


It's not a typo.  GENUKI is your friend.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/conway.html
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: ambyrne1 on Monday 17 August 09 14:29 BST (UK)
Thanks for this
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: dottyaussie on Tuesday 30 March 10 17:16 BST (UK)
Please can someone help. I am trying to find Twickenham & Southall on the IGI records and cannot find it. I have looked in London (incl Middlesex).
Title: Re: Link: Which British County?
Post by: suelaw1954 on Wednesday 01 June 11 02:09 BST (UK)
LDS have developed a very nice interactive map based on 1851 jurisdictions which seems to be fairly accurate:
http://maps.familysearch.org/

You can search for a place and then flip to the other tab to see how it fits into various jurisdictions or map backgrounds.

Sue