Someone mentioned about the 1911 census listing somewhere in Bristol as in Somerset. In some cases this is the fault of FindMyPast and not the census. When searching for my father in the 1911 census probably in Mangotsfield but somewhere in the Bristol area. I did what I always do and set the location to just "Gloucestershire" but no sign of him or any of his family. In desperation I eventually found him by searching under "England" and there the family were listed living in Mangotsfield, SOMERSET. The problem is that Mangotsfield and several other Gloucestershire parishes to the east of the city are in Keynsham registration district and Keynsham is just over the border in Somerset so Findmypast listed all Keynsham parishes as in Somerset. On FreeBMD you can give the county as Gloucestershire or Somerset and you will get events in the Keynsham Registration District. Mangotsfield isn't in Bristol but it is an example of how parishes can be incorrectly given as Somerset. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: 08 January 2014 22:54 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol, a City and a County On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:51:37 -0000, Sandy Gianni <slgianni@newkenmore.com> wrote: > I've wondered if Bristol had been in Somerset. Thank you. This is > the way it was written in my grandmother's family Bible. We'll never > know how it was that she thought that, I guess. Grandma was the only > daughter and her mother was older when Grandma was born. Hi Sandy, Your family once lived in Bedminster, across the River Avon from Bristol, and Bedminster used to be in the county of Somerset so that may be why Somerset was written in your family Bible. The matter of Somerset and Bristol and Bristol being a City and a County has been discussed on this list before: When a question was asked if Bristol was in both Somerset and Gloucestershire, Stan Mapstone sent a reply to the list, on 3rd. November 2006, which may help clarify the matter. This can be found in the Bristol_and_Somerset archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/bristol_and_somerset/2006-11/1 162573314 Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message