How about Nantgwin? There is such a place in the list of Welsh place names. It is in South Wales. Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Pears" <bp@bpears.org.uk> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 19:09 Subject: [NMB] Place of Birth ? > > Hi > > I'm having difficulty interpreting a place of birth on the 1851 > census. The entry is > > HO107/2397 Folio 437 Page 8 Schedule 27 > > and the unreadable DOB is that of Mary Ann Speakman aged 10. It > reads "???????, Wales". We can't get any clues from other censuses > as they give this person's place of birth at various places in > Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. > > I've put an image of the relevant text temporarily at: > > http://www.bpears.org.uk/temp/cawthorne.jpg > > Can anyone please offer any ideas about the place in Wales? > > Brian > -- > Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ > Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List > GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >