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    1. Re: [NMB] C18 parish boundaries - Newcastle
    2. Julia Say
    3. Thank you for the various replies on this one. The other half of my household is on a "teach yourself social history" project of his home town. I was asked if I knew of such a map: since I couldn't immediately locate one I decided to ask this august company. I believe he's interested in what he calls the "ancient communities" making up the city within (and just without) the walls: for (an obvious example) instance suggesting that the keelmen and watermen gravitated mainly to All Saints, that there is a distinct "market area" between St Johns and St Nicks, and so on. (Don't all shout at me, its not my theory!!) For some reason he wanted to know where the boundaries actually were..... In the course of my work I spend time with the Wood PR transcripts, so its useful to know that just because a child was baptised in (say) St. Johns doesn't mean the parents lived in that immediate area, although I presume that a marriage (I work mainly in the C18) where the participants are listed as "both of this parish" does have to mean exactly that. And so could be a clue to where they actually lived at that time. I'll pass on the various suggestions. Julia

    02/14/2013 03:48:50