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My great gran's father was born just a few hundred yards from Oxford Street in Feb 1860 and his father was born in Soho and mother in Shoreditch. 3 places that eptomise London. Great grans mother was born in Sussex but grew up in Stoke Newington, Bow, Lambeth, Walworth then Holborn. The fact she was not born in London but grew up there is exciting. She was deffo a Londoner anyway, baptised there, educated there, grew up there, married there, had children there and lived there until she died. She spent 12 years in Bow, so she was an East Londoner mainly but spent her childhood in several areas of London. Her paternal grandmother Ann Roberts was born in Bermondsey, which was probably more Surrey as the street she was born down was near to Rotherhithe.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain