Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please? It appears as the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area. I've tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey map. Any help would be appreciated. Marjorie Cook

A plea to everyone - please tell us exactly where you found the words/name you're referring to. Hopefully we can then look at those words ourselves. In the meantime we're left wondering - is it a transcription? Is it your interpretation of what's written? Is the writing as clear as day? Or a bit of a scribble? Was it on a census? (Census ref, please.) In a parish register? (Which parish? Date?) Without names and context we often can't help. Or else go barking up the wrong tree. :) Over to you Marjorie. <g> Pam On 30/03/2014 11:41, M Cook wrote: > Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please? It appears as > the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the > Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area. I've > tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey > map. Any help would be appreciated. > > Marjorie Cook > > -------------------------------

Outside chance of Bardolph Fen?  Stow Bardolph. >________________________________ > From: M Cook <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2014, 11:41 >Subject: [NFK] BARTLE FEN > > >Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please?  It appears as >the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the >Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area.  I've >tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey >map.  Any help would be appreciated. > >Marjorie Cook > >------------------------------- >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 > > >

Morning Sheila , any chance of you remembering the men`s outfitters in the High St Downham where Palmers is now ? tall elegant man and small busy wife ran it , lots of very old fashioned good quality clothes, I think they are something to do with one of my Downham boys .......sorry OUR Downham boys !!! life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheila WB" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [NFK] BARTLE FEN Outside chance of Bardolph Fen? Stow Bardolph. >________________________________ > From: M Cook <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2014, 11:41 >Subject: [NFK] BARTLE FEN > > >Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please? It appears as >the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the >Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area. I've >tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey >map. Any help would be appreciated. > >Marjorie Cook > >------------------------------- >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 > > > ------------------------------- 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

Hi Marjorie Casting around for Bartle Fen I found very little In the 1911 there is a young lady by the name of Mary DEW b1889 Bartle Fen Norfolk married 1 year to a John DEW In 1910 a marriage was registered in N Witchford showing her as Mary Ann TUCK marrying John Robert DEW Looking back I found what I think is her in 1891 a daughter of Reuben & Margaret TUCK living in Stow Bardolph, birthplace Stow Bardolph In 1901 with family in Chatteris Cambs her birthplace as Stow Norfolk Looking at an OS map of the period I cannot see a Bartle Fen , however could it be Bardolph Fen perhaps ? And likewise for your target whose name you don't give unfortunately Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 30/03/2014 11:41, M Cook wrote: > Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please? It appears as > the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the > Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area. I've > tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey > map. Any help would be appreciated. > > Marjorie Cook

After entering Bartle Fen into Ancestry and cross checking the censuses forwards and back of those who gave Bartle Fen as a birth place it throws up Norfolk and Downham and Stow as birth place alternatives ( despite a red herring of a Lincolnshire birth) so it looks as if Nivard was right and it is possibly Bardolph Fen. Despite my sister living just up the road from Stow Bardolph I admit to not having heard it called Bardle. So-looks like south of the Old Podike, north of Well Creek and east roughly to Barroway Drove -parts of Nordelph, Outwell, around Mullicourt and Stow Bridge if that is the case. Rosie On 30/03/2014 11:41, M Cook wrote: > Can anybody tell me where Bartle Fen is or was, please? It appears as > the birth place of a possible ancestor about 1840 and is probably in the > Outwell, Emneth, Murrow, Sutton St Edmunds or Parson Drove area. I've > tried Google maps, Goggle search and a 19th Century Ordnance Survey > map. Any help would be appreciated. > > Marjorie Cook > > ------------------------------- > 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