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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Wiltshire => Topic started by: meeganf on Friday 22 January 21 04:32 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Can anyone tell me if there was a Partish Lane, Thanles Lane or Baehot Lane in Chilmark please?
Unsure what period but can't find maps that are that detailed
Many thanks
Meegan
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Hi
There is a Port Ash Lane on the 1773 map shown here:
https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=52
djm297
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Could you give a link or say where you found the names so we can look at them and see what alternative names might also fit? Or is the writing and spelling very clear?
Added:
Standard map:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/106032568
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Context and approximate era (decade perhaps) might help. Eg 1760s? 1960s?
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I would go with Portash or Port Ash as the name of the first one. Portash is now an outlying area of Chilmark, but obviously at one time there was a lane out of Chilmark which led to Portash and known locally as Portash Lane.
Interestingly there is a house called Ellan Thie in the Portash area near Chilmark, although that might be connected with the occupant's liking for railways or the Isle of Man.
There is also a Beckett Lane in Chilmark.
Any of those might be possibilities, but it does depend on the dates.
Nell
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Interestingly there is a house called Ellan Thie in the Portash area near Chilmark, although that might be connected with the occupant's liking for railways or the Isle of Man.
Ellan Thie translates as Island House ;D
Thie being house; Ellan Vannin being Manx for Isle of Man ;)
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It had to be something like that. And the house is on a triangle of land - effectively an island!
(Sorry - gone off topic ;) )
Nell
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Hi everyone, thanks for your input. Have attached the originals - I'm transcribing Census 1891. I have read Partish and Parlish but can't read them as Port Ash. Appreciate your help
Cheers
Meegan
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Hi again
Think this is Becketts?
Cheers
Meegan
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Hi everyone, thanks for your input. Have attached the originals - I'm transcribing Census 1891. I have read Partish and Parlish but can't read them as Port Ash. Appreciate your help
Cheers
Meegan
FindMyPast transcribes the middle one as Kents Lane?? Maybe Parlish/Portash is all in the way it is locally pronouced
Kay
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Hi again
Think this is Becketts?
Cheers
Meegan
Agree re Becketts and it is shown on the map that Chempat posted https://maps.nls.uk/view/106032568#zoom=7&lat=8190&lon=7534&layers=BT
Kay
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Link to Ancestry 1891:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01q8g/
and F M P
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbc%2f1891%2f1626%2f0077
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So looking at the enumerator's description of the district, I think it is definitely Becketts Lane. (There is even a chap named Beckett living on that lane on page 5)
You could probably plot the places named on a map. Kents Hill, Frog Lane, Ridgeway, Barberry, The Street, Mooray are all places still valid today. I acknowledge that it doesn't look like Portash, but I think that is what it ought to be and it is part of the ED. It looks more like Portash on the description page. It stretches as far as Knap Farm which is a bit further away than Portash.
Nell
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Thanks for all your help,
Cheers
Meegan