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Identify Birthplace Holywell
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 11:49 BST (UK) »
Can anyone read the place name here please, given as place of birth on the left?  Looks like Bl---, Holywell. I've looked on an old map and done a wild card search. Nothing. It might be a tiny hamlet not marked.
 


I've tried inserting image but I don't think it worked. It's a png image 175KB size, so it's legit. However, think I've attached it.
Searle, Searell, Searell, Bradridge, Furneaux, Mann, Palk(e), Webber, Caunter, Cantor, Scoble, Leatherbe(e), Pope , Bowden, Full, Colling, Widecomb. Harvey, Solomon, Willis, Grylls, Alger, Chugg, Rouse, Bunker, Richards, Hawkins. Devon.
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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 October 17 11:59 BST (UK) »
It look like Block or Bluck to me - odd  :-\

Addded - nearest I can find on the NLS maps id Brocnallt but doesn't look like that at all.
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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:15 BST (UK) »
Nothing like it in the copies of Holywell Parish Registers pre 1840 I have either.

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William Russell Jones.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:22 BST (UK) »
Just to help.its a copy of a Birth Certificate issued in the Holywell District,am I right?

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William Russell Jones.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:24 BST (UK) »
Could it be "Bwlch" with the "w" and "l" transposed?

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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks all.. I'm wondering if it's the name of a house, but that would be unusual surely... father here is a collier.
Yes, it's a copy of a birth certificate in the Holywell District and Holywell subDistrict. The family in 1871 census are at Near Mill, Flint.. and the parents stayed in the area.
Searle, Searell, Searell, Bradridge, Furneaux, Mann, Palk(e), Webber, Caunter, Cantor, Scoble, Leatherbe(e), Pope , Bowden, Full, Colling, Widecomb. Harvey, Solomon, Willis, Grylls, Alger, Chugg, Rouse, Bunker, Richards, Hawkins. Devon.
Davies, Griffiths, Griffith, Jones, Ellis. Flintshire, Wales.
Robinson, Dennison, Birch, Howard, Barton, Jones, Rigby, Rimmer, Rhymer, Johnson, Marshall, Lunt, Ball, Illingworth, Hesketh, Taylor, Bolton, Abram, Spencer, Blundell. Lancashire.

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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:27 BST (UK) »
I wondered about Bwlch.. but it really doesn't look like that.. as gadget says.. it looks like Block or Block? Hhmmm
Searle, Searell, Searell, Bradridge, Furneaux, Mann, Palk(e), Webber, Caunter, Cantor, Scoble, Leatherbe(e), Pope , Bowden, Full, Colling, Widecomb. Harvey, Solomon, Willis, Grylls, Alger, Chugg, Rouse, Bunker, Richards, Hawkins. Devon.
Davies, Griffiths, Griffith, Jones, Ellis. Flintshire, Wales.
Robinson, Dennison, Birch, Howard, Barton, Jones, Rigby, Rimmer, Rhymer, Johnson, Marshall, Lunt, Ball, Illingworth, Hesketh, Taylor, Bolton, Abram, Spencer, Blundell. Lancashire.

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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:38 BST (UK) »
There is a Bwlch in Rhes y Cae not far from Pen y Parc as per your other thread.

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/318047/371275/12/100628

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Re: Identify Birthplace Holywell
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 12 October 17 12:41 BST (UK) »
Yes, I think that is what I saw on a map.. failing other options Bwlch is the best.

By the way.. this is Mary Davies' birth certificate.. the subject of another thread which you all helped me with. It arrived this morning and confirms father Thomas collier and mother Sarah Griffiths. At last! So thank you very much for all your help.
Searle, Searell, Searell, Bradridge, Furneaux, Mann, Palk(e), Webber, Caunter, Cantor, Scoble, Leatherbe(e), Pope , Bowden, Full, Colling, Widecomb. Harvey, Solomon, Willis, Grylls, Alger, Chugg, Rouse, Bunker, Richards, Hawkins. Devon.
Davies, Griffiths, Griffith, Jones, Ellis. Flintshire, Wales.
Robinson, Dennison, Birch, Howard, Barton, Jones, Rigby, Rimmer, Rhymer, Johnson, Marshall, Lunt, Ball, Illingworth, Hesketh, Taylor, Bolton, Abram, Spencer, Blundell. Lancashire.