Russell wrote: > Hello Patrice, > > That place name looks like it might be "Saint (Something)". Since the > document is written in French, this is probably the French rendering of an > Anglo/Irish place name. "Ste" is the equivalent of the English "St" and the > remaining four letters could be an abbreviation for somewhere well-known to > those who wrote the document. I hope this is of some help. If it was a saint's name, then it was a female saint, ste being short for sainte, which is a female saint. The rest of the word does not look like any female saint's name I've heard of.