Post by Mal on Sept 8, 2009 4:56:58 GMT -5
Hello everyone.
This might be a daft question.... but here I go...
Practically the only constant fact we have about guess who... William Davies c1799--1870 is that he was born in PAUL. Now, there is PAUL and PENZANCE ST PAUL. Are they the same? Are they different? So far I have been looking for PAUL, could it be PENZANCE ST PAUL? Would that make a difference. Is it possible that census takers wrote down Paul when they should have written down St Paul? The boundaries between Paul, Newlyn and Penzance seem to have shifted around a bit in the mid 19th century too, Newlyn St Peter was carved out of Paul around 1851-ish to start with!
On a different side of the family, in Ireland, I had been looking for a birth County Clare for years until eventually I discovered that it should have been CLARA on the border of Offaly and Westmeath.
Any ideas?
This might be a daft question.... but here I go...
Practically the only constant fact we have about guess who... William Davies c1799--1870 is that he was born in PAUL. Now, there is PAUL and PENZANCE ST PAUL. Are they the same? Are they different? So far I have been looking for PAUL, could it be PENZANCE ST PAUL? Would that make a difference. Is it possible that census takers wrote down Paul when they should have written down St Paul? The boundaries between Paul, Newlyn and Penzance seem to have shifted around a bit in the mid 19th century too, Newlyn St Peter was carved out of Paul around 1851-ish to start with!
On a different side of the family, in Ireland, I had been looking for a birth County Clare for years until eventually I discovered that it should have been CLARA on the border of Offaly and Westmeath.
Any ideas?
