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Title: Can you read these census entries?
Post by: Roobarb on Sunday 19 November 06 20:50 GMT (UK)

Please can anyone with knowledge of Cambridgeshire please tell me where this place of birth is? There are three entries from different censuses but I can't make it out from any of them!  ???

Title: Re: Can you read these census entries?
Post by: bekahsgran on Sunday 19 November 06 20:55 GMT (UK)

Hi
Could it be 'Swavesey' sometimes written as 'Swavensey'?

"SWAVESEY is a large parish and village, with a station on the Cambridge and Huntingdon branch of the Great Eastern railway, 69 miles from London, 11½ north-west from Cambridge, 3 south-east from St. Ives and 9 south-east from Huntingdon, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Papworth, petty sessional division of Cambridge, union of St. Ives, county court district of Huntingdon, rural deanery of North Stowe and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."


Only likely one I can think of.
Anne

Title: Re: Can you read these census entries?
Post by: Necromancer on Sunday 19 November 06 20:56 GMT (UK)

Swavesey - St Ives Reg District

Title: Re: Can you read these census entries?
Post by: ricky1 on Sunday 19 November 06 21:05 GMT (UK)

Hi Roobarb
As Anne and Newfy said its Swavesey which is 10 miles west of Cambridge.

These sites might help you if your looking for people around Cambridge on the old census's.
http://www.cfhs.org.uk/Search.html

or this one

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/community/bmd/Camdex/

ricky

Title: Re: Can you read these census entries?
Post by: Roobarb on Monday 20 November 06 11:55 GMT (UK)

That's great, thanks everyone, Rootschatters crack it first time! I'll try the websites as well Ricky.
Thanks a million  ;D ;D ;D