Middlesex is one that gives me lots of head scratching depending on the source, it can be anywhere, On the same note we have a cemetery here named after one suburb, but it is in the middle of a different suburb the one it is named after is a couple of suburbs away so would be fun to find if you didn't know the area i<Gordon Webb> wrote in message news:ac.58851b5355.a808e0gordonwb@argonet.co.uk... > In article <KOOdnXnM3a69RjfMnZ2dnVY3go-dnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Kiwi in Aus" > <Wwftw_98@Yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> How do others deal with this, you might start off with a place that is in >> Essex at time of birth, but by the time a person dies same place is now >> called Greater London, or South eastern Essex or what ever do you stay >> with >> same place name or change with the passing time, I guess change with time >> is >> >> more correct, >> >> > > There is no "right" way to deal with this, others have said their ways. I > think that for the purpose of "accuracy" the name at the time of the event > is recorded as this also helps locate the record source, especially parish > records. For the name change a note should be appended to the record. > > When London expanded it did so rapidly swallowing up large parts of the > bordering counties, Middlesex was completely "swallowed" by London but > it's > name refuses to "die". > > Good hunting > > Gordon > > > -- > --. --. --. --. : : --- --- > .---------------------------------------------. > |_| |_| | _ | | | | |_ | |Internet provider for all Acorn RISC > machines| > | | |\ | | | | |\| | | > '---------------------------------------------' > | | | \ |_| |_| | | |__ | gordonwb@mapsonargonet.co.uk(please remove > mapson for any reply) > > >

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:11:35 +1000, "Kiwi in Aus" <Wwftw_98@Yahoo.com> wrote: > i<Gordon Webb> wrote in message >news:ac.58851b5355.a808e0gordonwb@argonet.co.uk... >> In article <KOOdnXnM3a69RjfMnZ2dnVY3go-dnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Kiwi in Aus" >> <Wwftw_98@Yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> How do others deal with this, you might start off with a place that is in >>> Essex at time of birth, but by the time a person dies same place is now >>> called Greater London, or South eastern Essex or what ever do you stay >>> with >>> same place name or change with the passing time, I guess change with time >>> is >>> >>> more correct, >>> >>> >> >> There is no "right" way to deal with this, others have said their ways. I >> think that for the purpose of "accuracy" the name at the time of the event >> is recorded as this also helps locate the record source, especially parish >> records. For the name change a note should be appended to the record. >> >> When London expanded it did so rapidly swallowing up large parts of the >> bordering counties, Middlesex was completely "swallowed" by London but >> it's >> name refuses to "die". >> >> Good hunting >> >> Gordon >> >Middlesex is one that gives me lots of head scratching depending on the >source, it can be anywhere, > On the same note we have a cemetery here named after one suburb, but it is >in the middle of a different suburb the one it is named after is a couple of >suburbs away so would be fun to find if you didn't know the area > Cemeteries in foreign parts have been around since at least Victorian times. ITYF the naming is not generally after a "suburb" but after the owning authority at the time a cemetery was opened thus e.g. Paddington cemetery is "out in the countryside" in Kilburn with IIRC various LCC cemeteries even further from home.