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Re: Did the county border move in the 19th century?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 06 November 08 22:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jenni

Could you give the source of the info, please, because, as far as i'm aware Alberbury was always in Shropshire in the 19th century:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MGY/Alberbury/index.html

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Alberbury/index.html


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and:

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8860&path=Shropshire


I have got all the parish maps on CDS but they're in my other home.



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Re: Did the county border move in the 19th century?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 07 November 08 22:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Gadget,

As far as I can remember I obtained this info a few years ago on Genuki, but I may have obtained it from British History Online or similar. Sorry!

I always had problems locating my Gregory's & for quite a time I could not reconcile two families with the same parents and children and ages living in either Montgomeryshire or Shropshire only one or two miles apart.  It's taken me a few years to confirm that they were one and the same family.

Will look through my files to see if I kept an actual record of where I obtained this info. It was definitely online however.

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Re: Did the county border move in the 19th century?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 07 November 08 22:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi

From what I can remember part of the parish might have been over the boundary but re-reading the Genuki stuff, alberbury and Worthen seem to be well and truly in Shropshire. I do recall that the old census Cds for Shropshire had parts of 'my bit' of Denbighshire included and I think parts of Alberbuy and Worthen were included in the Montgomeryshire disks, although in Shropshire.

However, having been born and brought up in border country, I can understand the probs.  I'll check the parish boundary maps when I can.


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