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Title: Place name SANTERS? in Gloucestershire
Post by: Peter H on Friday 11 November 05 13:44 GMT (UK)

Can anyone with a local knowledge of Gloucestershire help me please?

I have traced my WELLS family in Coberley in Glos. in both the 1851 and 1861 censuses so far. (HO107/1972/folio 262 and RG9/1796/folio 45 respectively). My problem is deciphering the birth place of Maria, the wife of head James. It looks to me like Santers, Gloster on both records, but I cannot trace any such place in the county. Ancestry's transcriber also thinks it is Santers , for what that is worth.

Can anyone offer an explanation where her birth place was please? Was it perhaps a house or a very small hamlet that doesn't appear on any gazetteer I have used - or have I or the enumerator misread the location?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Peter Heather

Title: Re: Place name SANTERS? in Gloucestershire
Post by: SueTeakle on Friday 11 November 05 20:54 GMT (UK)

I wonder if it should read Sandhurst?   ???

Sue

Title: Re: Place name SANTERS? in Gloucestershire
Post by: Geoff E on Friday 11 November 05 21:02 GMT (UK)

Quote from: SueTeakle on Friday 11 November 05 20:54 GMT (UK)

I wonder if it should read Sandhurst?   ???

That was my thought too. (Honest!  :))

Title: Re: Place name SANTERS? in Gloucestershire
Post by: Hackstaple on Friday 11 November 05 21:03 GMT (UK)

Sue has it right for sure. It is Sandhurst which would sound very like Santers. In fact  if you try Santers in a West Country brogue it will be the same. :)

Title: Re: Place name SANTERS? in Gloucestershire
Post by: Peter H on Saturday 12 November 05 17:42 GMT (UK)

That's really helpful. Thank you all very much indeed.

Peter