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Offline andrewalston

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Re: Amusing description of Risca
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 23 May 17 20:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: trish1120 on Saturday 20 May 17 15:45 BST (UK)
I've seen plenty of Trees like that.
Eg; born Halifax, Nova Scotia instead of Yorkshire.
I have the opposite. In 1861 the enumerator corrected the birthplace of 3 children to say Yorkshire!

Can't complain about Ancestry in this case.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Amusing description of Risca
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 25 May 17 09:34 BST (UK) »
 ;D "Off the coast of Kent"..... well, given their advertising campaigns for Rugby World Cup events that rather serves them right.

Having lately returned to "my Motherland" after 12 years exile in the Land of The Dragon, I think I can safely say that only people who have actually visited Risca know where it is precisely.

Mind you, they do have a jolly good library there and a pretty park. AND a very popular curry house!!
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