Hello David Strangely Ancestry have managed to index this page without including the folio number in the index making it impossible to search using the page reference. I have reported this problem to Ancestry. Looking at the first entry on the same page it appears that the census enumerator does not always cross his "T's" making it more difficult to guess which letters he is writing. The last word for Emma's place certainly seems to be Westbury, which is west of Shrewsbury. Use this link http://goo.gl/maps/qTlP on Google Maps. The other word could be Stretton (possibly written Streton) but a quick search on the IGI has failed to identify a suitable female named Emma born 1762 +/-5 years in that area. I couldn't get the IGI to allow me to search for an Emma marrying a JONES without her maiden name so unless you have that I don't know how you can progress with this. Mike Shropshire, UK _____________________________________ On 11/12/2010 02:01, David Steel wrote: > Thanks to those who replied to my place deciphering query. > > The reference is HO 107/1993/652 (verso) page 1. The individual is the 89 > year old widowed pauper, Emma JONES, lodging at no. 3. > > David Steel > > > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Many thanks to Mike, Jane, Mal, DrGeneal, for suggestions as to a place name. The general consensus is that it is Streton Westbury. I'm working on the possibility that Emma was the Emma KENRICK who married William JONES at Selattyn on 11th October, 1796. That couple then lived in Whittington where my gggrandfather was born in 1807. David Steel Adelaide