BMD Place Names

[tinav40]

I'm trying to find a birth by process of elimination. It's a very common name but I know the county they were born in.
One entry for the name has Stoke T as the place of birth.
Any idea where that is?
I thought Stoke on Trent maybe.
Thanks
Tina

[Tati]

Hi Tina,

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/districts.pl?r=31266638&d=bmd_1211377657
The district Stoke T is an alternative name for Stoke upon Trent and it is in the county of Staffordshire

 

[stanmapstone]

Stoke T will be Stoke upon Trent to differentiate it from Stoke D which is Stoke Damerel in Devon.

Stan

[tinav40]

Thanks Tati and Stan.
Another one eliminated.
Tina 

[silvery]

If you click on the name of the place, it will tell you about it. 

[trish251]

There is a pdf file that you can load down from Genuki - place names England/Wales - Living in Australia, I find it very handy for the so many names I do not know.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/
For each place listed, this index shows the county and registration district in which it was situated between 1st July 1837 and 31st March 1974, at which latter date the districts were considerably altered.

Please note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive gazetteer of place-names, and that only Civil Parishes or Townships named in the General Register Office's published lists are included. These often differed from the ancient parishes in existence at the start of the 19th century.

Trish