I'm trying to work out a place of origin from 1851 census for a couple. I've now got a handle on the top one - Holsworthy - but the bottom one defeats me. Can anybody with Devon knowledge help me out?
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Struggling with the first word but the the rest could possibly be North Petherton? It's not far from Bridgewater.http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/
Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid
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That's not all that unusual. The enumerator probably presumed it was the North Pether##n he knew about, and "corrected" the entry as he went along. (Thats another reason why sites like FMP are very wary of "correcting" transcriptions if the image appears to support the existing transcription.)
I have a great-great-uncle (or so) who was baptised in Lymington, in Hampshire. He was in Surrey in a later census, and the enumerator appears to have decided he meant his PoB was "Leamington"!
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