Hi again Chris I am sorry but you are misunderstanding how the census and other administrative divisions work No one is saying that Mangotsfield is actually *in* Somerset, only that for certain administrative functions it falls under Somerset Census being one of them Counties being a collection of odd shapes and sizes with certain parts protruding into a neighbouring County, there is often a need to round off certain parts to make administration easier or more sensible If you look back you will find Mangotsfield under Somersetshire for most if not all census Its just the way its organised Its quite normal in most Counties where places are close to a County border Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/01/2014 18:27, Chris Jefferies wrote: > It most certainly IS Findmypast who caused the problem because they cannot > be bothered to do it correctly. There is no excuse for listing any > Gloucestershire parish under Somerset. > > This is the location details from the transcription of the entry for my > father in 1911. > > Reg. District: Keynsham Sub District: Kingswood > Parish: Mangotsfield Enum. District: 9 > > Address: Victoria Street Staple Hill Near Bristol > County: Somersetshire > > Three of the five Keynsham sub districts are in Gloucestershire. It would > have take little effort to correctly identify parishes in the Kingswood, > Bitton and Oldland sub districts correctly as being in Gloucestershire! > > Chris Jefferies > Cheltenham > Glos > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nivard > Ovington > Sent: 09 January 2014 13:06 > To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol, a City and a County > > Hi Chris > > As the "someone" :-) > > On this occasion its not the fault of findmypast and is basically a > confusion over the administration of areas for different functions > > Mangotsfield, whilst being in Gloucestershire was for census purposes under > Somerset as it was in the Keynsham registration area (as were several other > Parishes in Gloucestershire) > > Enumeration districts are based on registration districts which in turn were > based on poor law unions > > But the 1911 being in the householders own hand is more accurate to how they > thought of their birthplace, and there are rather a lot of them who thought > they were born in Bristol Somerset :-) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 09/01/2014 10:43, Chris Jefferies wrote: >> 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >