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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: patty38 on Monday 09 March 15 21:29 GMT (UK)
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Found a baptism for an ancestor on another site which said she was born in Egypt, Hartlepool ??? ??? okay tried to find any info result nil, checked rootschat search and bingo, yes it does exist, checked some old maps and yes found it. Thanks rootschat you've come up trumps every time. Wonderful site.
p.s. I found California, Hartlepool too ;D ;D
Joking aside must say thanks to all who contribute to this site an absolute mine of information.
Cheers Patty
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the former town of west hartlepool also had an area called "california" situated at the western end of north cemetery and what is now jesmond road/jesmond mews.
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Patty,
It's brilliant that you've found your Egypt in Hartlepool here on RootsChat. It's pretty amazing how much stuff there is to find on here from all the contributions people have made. It's great to hear of a successful searches such as yours. :)
Trystan
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Thought Quebec was a mis-print but no its Quebec in County Durham - you live and learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec,_County_Durham
Regards
Sandra ;)
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And not to disappoint our American RootsChatters there is Philadelphia, Houghton le Spring.
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It is amazing and of course one can't forget the original Washington, Co Durham, and there is also a Stockton in California, I know because if it comes up many times when I've forgotten to add "on Tees" to my Stockton.
Patty ;D ;D ;D
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Can I add to these?
'Minorca' - in Sunderland and 'Gibraltar' near Blanchland.
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I thought Blantyre was only in Malawi til I saw its a Lanarkshire town too
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To add to the list, there is Palestine in Hampshire.
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. . . and a Pennsylvania in Gloucestershire!
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And California in Birmingham ;D
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And Willingdale Spain in Essex
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Dunkirk in Kent & Nottingham.
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Wales in Lancashire
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And Denver in Norfolk!
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Not forgetting Bethlehem in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
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You'll all be Russian :P to visit Moscow ......in Ayrshire, Scotland
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Toronto County Durham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,_County_Durham
Columbia Tyne & Wear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Tyne_and_Wear
Bermuda Warwickshire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda,_Warwickshire
Sandra
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I will add Scotland),
Newcastle (Fife)
Macedonia (Fife)
Annie
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And of course there is Patna, India - famous for its rice.
And Patna , Ayrshire - famous for its mining.
Ayrshire Patna was named after the Indian city.
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Helensburgh in Scotland
Helensburgh in Australia :)
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Jerusalem in Yorkshire?
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Hollywood - Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Worcestershire
Sandra
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But finding British place names like Denver or Boston or Calgary usually just shows where the first settlers in America were from. It's an accident of history that some of them evolved into big cities.
Our censuses vary a good deal in the precision of the birthplace information. 1841 - nothing, except whether born in the same county. I don't know how the enumerators' questions were framed after that, but often the entry may be just the name of a farm, which will need a large-scale map to find. Hence the Californias and Pennsylvanias. Later it was often a parish, easier but more vague.
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Many people have probably done a double take at first seeing part of north Liverpool described on census records as Scotland ;D
Blue
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There's also Gibraltar near Silverdale and Jericho near Bury, both in Lancashire.
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And not to disappoint our American RootsChatters there is Philadelphia, Houghton le Spring.
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Many people have probably done a double take at first seeing part of north Liverpool described on census records as Scotland
Or on a slightly more mundane note, part of east Manchester as Bradford.
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Jericho and Mesopotamia are both in Oxford, England.
Carol
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There is also New Zealand in Wiltshire, England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand,_Wiltshire
Came across that by accident when helping someone on a thread a few years ago. :)
Cheers
KHP
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I grew up knowing that New York was just past Deane church on the way out of Bolton.
Of course not everyone believes that there can be two places with the same name. One of my relatives was put down in the 1861 census as being from Halifax, Yorkshire. It was really Halifax, Nova Scotia!
There's always a surreal quality about seeing signposts to places abroad which have the same names as those at home. Newcastle, Hexham and West Wallsend are near neighbours in New South Wales as well as north east England, but when the distance sign also mentions a place with an aboriginal name...
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EDIT - Just look at a decent map of Massachusetts around Boston. Littered with English place-names all in completely unfamiliar arrangement !
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Jerusalem and New York in Lincs
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There is a Hull in Massachusetts and a Halifax in Nova Scotia.
Carol
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Wales, near Rotherham, Yorkshire
Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire.( Named after a MR Rhodes)
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Locations in the United States with an English name - Index by State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States_with_an_English_name
Sandra
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Locations in Australia with English Names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_Australia_with_an_English_name
Sandra
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Of course there's also Hollywood near Belfast - my husband went as a kid!