From: Victor Markham <victor@markham.me.uk> > All these 'Lund' places indicate why one should add West, East or > North Yorkshire as the case may be. It is not enough to just say > Yorkshire. > > There are many other places with the same name in different Ridings. > I am Hessle born in East Riding and before I started my family tree I > had no idea that there was an Hessle in West Riding. > > Victor> Indeed, that is the problem with a county the size of Yorkshire - the duplication of place names. Do you have any idea how many places called Sutton - or with Sutton in the title - there are, for instance? Some of my ancestors came from Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, near Thirsk, but my gazeteer also has also a Sutton near Keighley, Sutton Howgrave, Sutton Grange, Sutton Bank, Sutton-on-Hull, Sutton-on-the-Forest, Sutton-upon-Derwent and who knows how many others I've missed? All in all, in the whole of the UK, I believe there are probably somewhere between 30 and 50 places called Sutton. And, of course, very often in the censuses we find that a local enumerator simply assumed that the name mentioned was the local one he was familiar with, not realising there were other places of the name, which can lead to lots of confusion! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE