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    I have just come upon this, you may already be aware of it but it may be of some help to someone looking in Berks and Oxon

    Debs


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    Thank you Debs, there aren't many Oxfordshire/Berkshire records online and this will be very useful.
    Jenny

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    • #3
      Wow thanks..off to have a search

      Linda

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      • #4
        There are also lots of things to explore on our Oxfordshire page in our very own Reference library
        Last edited by Darksecretz; 09-03-12, 10:27.
        Julie
        They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

        .......I find dead people

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        • #5
          can i just ask why oxfordshire is abbreviated to oxon? there is no 'n' in it haha.

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          • #6
            Lol! I have always wondered that too!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by kylejustin View Post
              can i just ask why oxfordshire is abbreviated to oxon? there is no 'n' in it haha.
              Originally posted by Debbss View Post
              Lol! I have always wondered that too!

              Kyle, I have absolutely NO idea... lol!

              is abit like Hampshire... people call it Hants?.. why????
              Last edited by Darksecretz; 11-03-12, 10:05.
              Julie
              They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

              .......I find dead people

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              • #8
                i was gonna bring that one up too!!!

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                • #9
                  from wikipedia:

                  Oxfordshire archaically the County of Oxford; abbreviated Oxon from the Latinised form of "Oxford", Oxonia) is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire (to the north/northeast), Buckinghamshire (to the east), Berkshire (to the south), Wiltshire (to the southwest) and Gloucestershire (to the west).

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                  • #10
                    from the hampshire government county site
                    Why is Hampshire sometimes called Hants?

                    "Hampshire" is often abbreviated in written form to "Hants" and which sometimes gives rise to puzzlement. The abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire.

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                    • #11
                      mmm I now understand.. though is still 'weird' if you ask me..lol!!
                      Julie
                      They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                      .......I find dead people

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                      • #12
                        And what about Salop for Shropshire???

                        Anne

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                        • #13
                          The origin of the name "Shropshire" is the Old English "Scrobbesbyrigscīr" (literally Shrewsburyshire), perhaps taking its name from Richard Scrob (or FitzScrob or Scrope), the builder of Richard's Castle near what is now the town of Ludlow. However, the Normans who ruled England after 1066 found both "Scrobbesbyrig" and "Scrobbesbyrigscir" difficult to pronounce so they softened them to "Salopesberia" and "Salopescira". Salop is the abbreviation of these.

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