In message <306680.66491.qm@web24107.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, Christel Muncaster <christelhelen@yahoo.co.uk> writes >Hello > >I am trying to work out the place of birth of Andrew Reed c 1815. I >found him on freecen in 1861, living in Trimdon, with wife Sarah (nee >Storey, married 1838) and children - birthplace transcribed as >Moussion, Bedfordshire >In 1881 he described as being born in Mewsome, Northumberland >Neither of these places make sense to me, any ideas? > Hi Christel, A possibility might be "MOUSON, (or Mowson), a township in the parish of Bamburgh, N. division of Bamburgh ward, county Northumberland, 2 miles S. of Belford. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. See <http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Bamburgh/index.html> -- Helen Oram