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My 2xgreat grandmother was born in rural Sussex in December 1863. Her parents moved to London in 1864. I always thought she was born in London as 1881-1901 census gave Stoke Newington as her birthplace. I visited the Tower hamlets archive in the summer of 2004 and looked at 1871 census returns for Bow. The 1871 census contradicted subsequent censuses saying London as her birthplace. 1871 census said she was born in Sussex, same as her mother. (Father born in the Garden of England county). I was gobsmacked at the Sussex place of birth given in 1871 census in Bow, London, and I found out she was actually born in Sussex but grew up in London from babyhood. She spent her childhood in Stoke Newington, Bow, Lambeth, Walworth then Holborn. I think she naturally assumed she was born in London. After all, someone born in 1863 would rarely if ever need to seek out their birth cert.
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