Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote on 01 Jan 2016 in soc.genealogy.britain: > I received a family tree that shows someone as bei8ng born in > Leystone, Suffolk, England. > > Has anyone heard of such a place? > > I think it is probably a typo for Leytonstone, Essex, but thought I'd > better ask. Leystone = Leiston Leiston is a town in eastern Suffolk, England. It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the North Sea coast and is 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Ipswich and 90 miles (140 km) northeast from London. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiston> [..] The 14th century remains of Leiston Abbey lie northwest of the town. written as: Leystone Abbey. <https://books.google.nl/books?id=zZIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70> <http://www.mapsandantiqueprints.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/p-5568-1902- 1976.jpg> <http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/details.cfm?id= 6013&det=y> -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

"Evertjan." wrote in message news:XnsA5826DA573409eejj99@194.109.6.166... >Leystone = Leiston > >Leiston is a town in eastern Suffolk, England. It is situated near >Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the North Sea coast >and is 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Ipswich and 90 miles (140 km) >northeast >from London. > ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiston> > >[..] The 14th century remains of Leiston Abbey lie northwest of the town. > >written as: Leystone Abbey. > Looks like a case of the name being spelt as it is pronounced which was common some 150-200 years ago before place name spellings were standardised and everyone knew the spelling. Also it often happens that the spelling is nothing like the pronunciation which is quite common in Suffolk and Norfolk and can also be found throughout the UK. Two Norfolk examples are Wymondham pronounced Windham and Happisburgh pronounced Haisburgh. Occasionally the pronunciation spelling became the standard norm over the original spelling of the name. When ancestors came from small hamlets, villages or towns this is something which often occurs with placenames when details were recorded by someone who was not a local. The fun really starts when this occurs with your ancestors surnames and the spelling changes with the change in parish priest who was usually the only person who could write at that time. It gets "better" if the priest was hard of hearing too. I have a case where you would not believe the range of surname variations, some suggest a deaf priest. The fun of Genealogy!!!! Gordon

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 14:12:34 -0000 "Gordon" <gordonwb@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > Looks like a case of the name being spelt as it is pronounced which > was common some 150-200 years ago before place name spellings were > standardised and everyone knew the spelling. > Also it often happens that the spelling is nothing like the > pronunciation which is quite common in Suffolk and Norfolk and can > also be found throughout the UK. Two Norfolk examples are Wymondham > pronounced Windham and Happisburgh pronounced Haisburgh. Caused me a bit of confusion 40+ years ago when I was chatting to an 80-odd year old farmworker in Needham Market, Suffolk, who said he'd been on a nice day trip to Claydon. Considering that was in walking distance, I asked him to repeat the name and then, after getting no nearer, asked him to spell it. "C-L-A-C-T-O-N, Claydon", he said. My old home town of Rushden in Northants was pronounced "Rizdin" before WWII. I see this school has recently adopted the old spelling for the town; I'm pretty sure that it didn't go by that name about a century ago when my mother attended it. ;-) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Risdene+Academy/@52.2891487,-0.5898077,3a,75y,26.52h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFKhFspbKGXGS5zxXLt803w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x74e885599185d6f9!6m1!1e1 -- Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer] http://www.scarlet-jade.com/ I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. Posted with Claws: http://www.claws-mail.org/

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 14:12:34 -0000, "Gordon" <gordonwb@argonet.co.uk> wrote: >The fun really starts when this occurs with your ancestors surnames and the >spelling changes with the change in parish priest who was usually the only >person who could write at that time. It gets "better" if the priest was hard >of hearing too. I have a case where you would not believe the range of >surname variations, some suggest a deaf priest. I have some experience of that with clergy in Cornwall. One priest insisted on spelling the surname of my Greenaway ancestors as "Greenway". He obviously thought that was how the name *ought* to be spelt. What gives the game away is the marriage registers, where the name is recorded as Greenway, but the parties signed as Greenaway. There was a similar problem, also in Cornwall, with Sandercock and Saundercock. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:46:43 +0100, "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> wrote: >Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote on 01 Jan 2016 in >soc.genealogy.britain: > >> I received a family tree that shows someone as bei8ng born in >> Leystone, Suffolk, England. >> >> Has anyone heard of such a place? >> >> I think it is probably a typo for Leytonstone, Essex, but thought I'd >> better ask. > >Leystone = Leiston > >Leiston is a town in eastern Suffolk, England. It is situated near >Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the North Sea coast >and is 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Ipswich and 90 miles (140 km) northeast >from London. Thanks! -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/