Usually the Ancestry census gives the translation of the image and looking at the Hants 1851 for John Welch's it is probably Buriton but if you give me his year of birth I can have a proper look as there are more than one ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosalind Read" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:53 PM 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1404 - Release Date: > 29/04/2008 18:27 >