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Title: West Heal? where is it?
Post by: Bee on Thursday 03 February 05 21:51 GMT (UK)

I'ved traced some ancestors living in Hull on the 1851 census, it gives their birth place as West Heal Lincs.  I can't find this place on the map, could it refer to Healing near Grimsby? or has anybody got any better ideas.

Bee

Title: Re: West Heal? where is it?
Post by: sjsbc on Thursday 03 February 05 23:26 GMT (UK)

Hi,

could it be a transcription error?

How about West Keal Lincolnshire?

West Keal is a parish southwest of Spilsby and southeast of Horncastle. East Keal parish lies to the east and Stickford to the south.

Sue

Title: Re: West Heal? where is it?
Post by: Bee on Friday 04 February 05 00:15 GMT (UK)

Thanks Sue,

West Keal makes sense as Spilsby is given as place of birth on a later census.

thanks again

Bee