Help reading "Where Born" on census, please

[Elizabeth Herts]

Can anyone read the place of birth of

William Newton and his wife Mary
(4th and 5th lines)

- Ancestry.co.uk


In 1851 I think it says he was born in Saddleworth.

[Raven]

William's place of birth looks like
Tadcaster, Yorkshire.. sorry not sure about Mary...

[Just Gillian]

I'm not familiar with the Yorkshire area, but I think the second one looks like Houghton.

[Little Nell]

It's those blinking flourishy initial letters that are the problem. I think William's is Tadcaster (it looks like an L to me, but not when compared to Leeds further down the column).

Mary's could easily be Huyton, I am not up on Yorkshire names but that seems a likely suggestion.

BTW I never understand why some enumerators put birthplace with county first and then the place and others place, county. Sometimes when you can't read either it would help to know!

[Elizabeth Herts]

Thanks Gillian and Nell!

I have decided that this isn't my William as I think I have found his death.
Phew! If it were mine I would be confused with the place of birth.

[Mary from Italy]

Just in case you find you need it, I'm pretty sure the husband's birthplace is Lydgate, Yorkshire. Not sure about the wife's - the first letter of the word doesn't look like the other H's on the page.

I've found them in 1851, but the addresses are equally illegible - might be Saddleworth, as you say.

There's a Lydgate near Rochdale and another one near Sheffield, according to Genuki.