Gail,
The reason I ask is that some enumerators of censuses recorded "Parish of Birth" rather than birth PLACE. e.g. my g/f was born in New Hartley, but C1881 shows Earsdon ( the parish in which New Hartley lay) and C1901 shows Cramlington ( probably because enumerator was not sure where the border between Eardon parish and Cramlington parish lay
Also, because Tynemouth was the "District Register Office" for BMDs for such a wide area of south-east Northumberland, the records show BMDs at "Tynemouth" when in fact many occurred were in surrounding areas.
For instance Tynemouth DRO had 7 sub-district offices, at Blyth, Longbenton, North Shields, Wallsend, Whitley
( before it was Whitley Bay), Earsdon ( and that's another story) and Tynemouth. So at least folk got to save a bit of shoe leather by registering their "events" a bit nearer to where they happened. But GRO records will only show "Tynemouth".
With the census showing " North Tynemouth" , it is hard to say whether the official meant the northern part of the town of Tynemouth, or the northern part of Tynemouth parish or district. The northern part of the parish would be Whitley (Bay) area.
It is also possible that official wrote his ( women not authorised as census enumerators until C1891) abbreviation for Northumberland as , maybe.. " North 'd", as a prefix to the town of Tynemouth, and transcriber copied it as simply "North". I am now just browsing through some copies of census pages and I see that on my batch, enumerators wrote county first, followed by place.
Now you will wonder why Michael the Trainspotter is chewing long over this issue... well tieing down accurate birth place, increases the chances of finding church records for the event.
I see that the other Rocket,..... Ronnie the Rocket O'Sullivan won the English Masters Snooker last night !
Michael
