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Jem

11-03-2006, 01:17 PM

Can anyone read what is in the last column for Samuel Downes here http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7572&path=Durham.Darlington.ALL.30.32&rc=&zp=75 If you can't follow the link it's Samuel Downes living in darlington in the 1881 census. I can't see how he was deaf, blind, lunatic etc as he was married in 1882 and was working as a railway fitter and have no idea what else was supposed to go in that column, I know he couldn't write as he signed his marriage certificate with an X.

katiepops

11-03-2006, 01:23 PM

It says Dorset

as in Melbury, Dorset for his place of birth

Christine

11-03-2006, 05:35 PM

I agree with Kate. It says Dorsit (sic) , say it with a west country accent and Dorset sounds like Dorsit :D

Jem

12-03-2006, 12:43 AM

thanks ladies :) One of these days this will get easy lol, fingers crossed, he's now down as being born in Membury Devon AND Dorset, and typically there is a Membury in both counties!