Is some kind soul on the list familiar with Kent able to help me please? The 1861 Census of England & Wales, now imaged/indexed on Ancestry.co.uk in its entirety, has a family I'm interested in at what looks like Bagshot Road, Parish of Ash, Hamlet/Tything of Frimley, Kent. There are two places named Ash in Kent, and using Google to look for Frimley in Kent isn't helping much, so I'm not sure which Ash I'm dealing with. I suspect it's the one nearest Margate, because that's where the family was in 1871, but that might be an unwarranted leap! Any ideas anyone? TIA Graham Lewis Sydney [ I can't necessarily help but I can add more confusion !! There is an Ash in Surrey, five miles south of Frimley, and Bagshot is four miles up the road from Frimley, so it is likely that this road was named Bagshot Road. The whole area today is dominated by Aldershot and Farnborough which have expanded greatly over the last 100 years or so. I could find no sign of a Frimley anywhere near the two villages of Ash in Kent. I don't know whether there have been boundary changes since 1861, but I doubt it. Perhaps somebody local can comment on Frimley in Kent, and whether Frimley in Surrey was ever in the parish of Ash. - Geoff ]

The Ancestry 1861 census has *huge* numbers of errors in counties. A whole swathe of Surrey, from Croydon to Aldershot is recorded as being in Kent. But the correct county usually appears in the birthplace field. Not quite as bizarre as all the places in Middlesex recorded as Mexico (look for Shoreditch or Stepney) An utter shambles. peter At 18:52 05/05/2005, you wrote: >Is some kind soul on the list familiar with Kent able to help me please? >The 1861 Census of England & Wales, now imaged/indexed on Ancestry.co.uk in >its entirety, has a family I'm interested in at what looks like Bagshot >Road, Parish of Ash, Hamlet/Tything of Frimley, Kent. > >There are two places named Ash in Kent, and using Google to look for Frimley >in Kent isn't helping much, so I'm not sure which Ash I'm dealing with. I >suspect it's the one nearest Margate, because that's where the family was in >1871, but that might be an unwarranted leap! > >Any ideas anyone? > >TIA > >Graham Lewis >Sydney > > >[ I can't necessarily help but I can add more confusion !! > >There is an Ash in Surrey, five miles south of Frimley, and Bagshot is four >miles up the road from Frimley, so it is likely that this road was named >Bagshot Road. The whole area today is dominated by Aldershot and >Farnborough which have expanded greatly over the last 100 years or so. I >could find no sign of a Frimley anywhere near the two villages of Ash in Kent. > >I don't know whether there have been boundary changes since 1861, but I >doubt it. Perhaps somebody local can comment on Frimley in Kent, and >whether Frimley in Surrey was ever in the parish of Ash. - Geoff ]

Frimley was a chapelry within the parish of Ash, Surrey. Although Frimley was not a parish in its own right, it kept its own registers. Ash registers date from 1548. Frimley registers date from 1590. Part of Frimley became the town of Camberley. Bagshot is a few miles away. Alan McGowan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Lewis (by way of Geoffrey <lists@sog.org.uk>)" <graham.lewis@optusnet.com.au> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:52 PM Subject: [SoG] Ash, Kent Is some kind soul on the list familiar with Kent able to help me please? The 1861 Census of England & Wales, now imaged/indexed on Ancestry.co.uk in its entirety, has a family I'm interested in at what looks like Bagshot Road, Parish of Ash, Hamlet/Tything of Frimley, Kent. There are two places named Ash in Kent, and using Google to look for Frimley in Kent isn't helping much, so I'm not sure which Ash I'm dealing with. I suspect it's the one nearest Margate, because that's where the family was in 1871, but that might be an unwarranted leap! Any ideas anyone? TIA Graham Lewis Sydney [ I can't necessarily help but I can add more confusion !! There is an Ash in Surrey, five miles south of Frimley, and Bagshot is four miles up the road from Frimley, so it is likely that this road was named Bagshot Road. The whole area today is dominated by Aldershot and Farnborough which have expanded greatly over the last 100 years or so. I could find no sign of a Frimley anywhere near the two villages of Ash in Kent. I don't know whether there have been boundary changes since 1861, but I doubt it. Perhaps somebody local can comment on Frimley in Kent, and whether Frimley in Surrey was ever in the parish of Ash. - Geoff ]