Only incomers call it 'Dittisham'.  Ditsam to locals. (Have a Ditsam girl in my maternal line & a wife from Totnes). Once famous for Ditsam plums.Stephen Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 10:06, devon-request@rootsweb.com<devon-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: Send DEVON mailing list submissions to devon@rootsweb.com To subscribe via email send a message with subject subscribe and body subscribe to devon-request@rootsweb.com To unsubscribe via email send a message with subject unsubscribe and body unsubscribe to devon-request@rootsweb.com You can reach the person managing the list at devon-owner@rootsweb.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of DEVON digest..." Please ensure that you change the subject line to the message subject when replying, and PLEASE DELETE ALL THE OTHER DIGEST MESSAGES EXCEPT THE ONE YOU ARE REPLYING TO. Please do not leave it as a DIGEST heading. Thank you Today's Topics:   1. Re: Dittisham: (Jane Lucas) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 08:39:29 +0000 From: Jane Lucas <janelucas@me.com> Subject: [DEV] Re: Dittisham: To: devon@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <FA9C8025-9D99-4A12-A60C-9637FEF840B8@me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi John It could well be..the ‘i’ is often swallowed so it sounds like dit’sham.. I don’t know of anywhere else it could be but someone else might. Jane > On 8 Nov 2018, at 04:25, John Moore <johnbrianmoore1934@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a woman in the 1881 census in Exeter whose birthplace is shown as > Ditson. Would iIbe right to think this is a local version of Dittisham? > > Regards, > John Moore > > _______________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/   and  Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/devon@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer Email preferences (change your email address): http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 To contact the DEVON list administrators, email: devon-owner@rootsweb.com To post a message to the DEVON mailing list, send an email to devon@rootsweb.com __________________________________________________________ DEVON List Archives and Unsubscribe: https://goo.gl/AAU4eu ------------------------------ End of DEVON Digest, Vol 13, Issue 354 **************************************