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  • Can someone explain for my son please

    what the Hundred is on the 1841 census, as in the Broxtowe Hundred, i can find lots of refs to it but not an explanation of what it is.
    Lisa
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    If the shoe fits buy one in every colour

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    A hundred is a geographic division formerly used to divide a large region into smaller administrative divisions. Sometimes called wapentake.

    I think! :Wink:
    Elaine







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    • #3
      Elaine thank you. i put wapentake into google and got pages of explanations. i will send him the link.

      Lisa
      xx
      Lisa
      xxx


      If the shoe fits buy one in every colour

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      • #4
        You can still see the expression in use now:
        The Chiltern Hundreds...

        Christine
        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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        • #5
          And the area between Chichester and Selsey in Sussex is called the Hundred of Manhood.
          Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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