>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alan Mills" <[email protected]> >> >>>I am seeking help from someone with access to the 1851 census. The entry >>>for John Young, age 78, living in Newdigate, Surrey (HO 107/1598 folio 130) >>>shows the place of birth to be Hishut, Sussex or something similar. Is it >>>Hishut or am I and the Ancestry transcribers misreading it? If it is Hishut >>>I can find no such place. There is a Heyshott in Sussex. It certainly does look like Hishut, comparing the letters to others on the page, but I would say that it was Heyshott, near Midhurst, Sussex, which, if pronounced quickly could easily sound like 'Hishut', especially if spoken in a dialect. Ros