To help, there is a very good (lengthy) list of places in Hampshire here http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/HGDNDX_F.HTM Kate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rosalind Read Sent: 30 April 2008 12:54 To: [email protected] Subject: [HAM] Help please with illegible place name! Hi, Is anyone good at reading old handwriting? I would be interested to know where a John Whlth (supposed to be WELCH!) was born.On the 1851 census he is listed as being born in Hants which I take as Hampshire and then there is another place name beginning with what I think is B but the rest of it I can't read. Can anyone decipher it for me?! This may help!Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1475; Folio: 544; Page: 43; GSU roll: 87798 Many thanks and good luck! Rosalind -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! For FREE online parish register transcriptions visit the Hampshire OPC at www.knightroots.co.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message