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Somerset help please

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Sarah

Sarah Report 21 Sep 2010 15:29

Great thank you I'll try searching for Clutton and see what I find.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 21 Sep 2010 15:19

Farmborough is part of Clutton District.

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/clutton.html

This shows which parishes were included in the district.

A useful tool for finding neighbouring parishes to a specific place is Parloc and you can download from here...

http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Using Parloc and selecting a radius of 3 miles it throws up 12 parishes with the distance and direction for each from Farmborough.
It can also be used to select two specific parishes to find the distance and direction between them.

Chris

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Sarah

Sarah Report 21 Sep 2010 13:59

ok thanks. I was hoping just to find the family on the 1841 or 51 census but there are a lot of Walters' in Somerset it seems. I can find several in Farmborough on the family search website but no William. I wondered if there might be district name that I'm not familiar with that might hold a key for example the way that here in Sheffield we have Hallam as a district.

Sarah

Sarah Report 21 Sep 2010 13:19

I'm trying to track the Walters family from Somerset. I've gone back as far as William Walters, born in Farmborough Somerset in 1840 and I have details of him being in the army and of his marriage. However I can't find his birth and therefore his parents names and I think that part of the problem is not knowing what districts these small villages come under. As I said, William was born in Farmborough but his wife and children were born in Newton St Loe. Any help much appreciated thanks. Sarah