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Humphrey Thanks for the tip I have tried all the remaining nine places and got nowhere. However a brilliant site which I will remember for the future John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humphrey Southall" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] p[lace names from 1881 Census > Or you could try my "Vision of Britain" site. There are several ways to > use it, but one is to do a search of its "descriptive gazetteers" -- for > England, Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) and John > Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872) -- from > here: > > http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions > > One option you can try is "search head words for sound-alikes", which > will then try to find names that sound like the name in the census > listing. For example, if you use this to search for "Findrington" and > specify the county as Cambridgeshire, it comes up with "Fen Drayton". > Another option is to search the full text of the gazetteer entries, > which will find names MENTIONED, rather than just those which are the > subjects of entries. > > Two big caveats: > > (1) The texts of the gazetteers was computerised using an optical > character recognition system. Although it has been read for errors > once, it would benefit from further proof reading. > > (2) The sound-alike matching the system does uses the software built in > to the database as written by Oracle Corporation. For England the > biggest problem is that it comes back with some daft matches as well as > sensible ones, but for Wales it is pretty useless. > > Best wishes, > > Humphrey Southall > >>>> "Postles, D.A." <[log in to unmask]> 04/05/08 8:45 PM >>> > You could try working through Lewis's Topographical Dictionary online > which is arranged alphabetically. Bovington is Bovingdon, for example. > > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445 > > Dave Postles > ________________________________________ > From: From: Local-History list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of John Chapman [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 04 May 2008 19:39 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] p[lace names from 1881 Census > > I am trying to compile a list of men who were with the 66th Regiment > and > survived to take part in the 1881 Census. The enumerators seem to be > using > somewhat eccentric spellings and I am not sure they got the counties > right > either > > The following have evaded me so far > > BOGNOR Hants > BOVINGTON Herts > FINDRINGTON Cambs > FOWNER Bucks > KINGDON Berks [Kingston?] > NEWCASTLE Durham > NEWHAM Dorset > PEDLEY BRIDGE Yorks > SENDLY Durham > SOUTHERTON Berks > STEIPE Oxon > SUN BARTON Yorks > TYLEHURST Bucks > WESTHAM Essex > WEST OLVERTON Berks > WHITECHURCH Som [Whitchurch?] > WHITEFORD Warks > > Any ideas would be welcomed > > thanks > > John Chapman >