Genealogy Chat

And it will change its name to Unhappisburgh!

Remember to get your Happisburgh research done this year, before what's left goes the way of Dunwich (into the sea). J

Well, Limpenhoe has been OK. The lot born there are all fine, apart from when its mistranscribed as Limperhoe or Limperhal, which isn't their fault! But I was led on a right wild goose chase with my gt grandma. She was born in LANGHAM, in North Norfolk, but one of the censuses had her as Langley, which is near Limpenhoe and I couldn't understand why I couldn't find her birth or baptism, until I traced her marriage back to Langham. Old Wm Conqueror should have compiled his Doomsday book specifying that each placename should be completely different from others in the same county. It would also have helped if he had forbidden anyone except his descendants from being called William! nell

Silly Suffolk poses similar problems: Horringer = Horningsheath

Don't forget Stookey for Stiffkey - Norfolk dialect at school would have been of far more use to me in later life than Latin, French and German!! Jay

Not forgetting Hunst(ant)on (depending on where you came from) - and, my favourite, ''Haysbrough'' - which is really Happisburgh, if you want to look it up on the map! Christine

I know the feeling,one of my Norfolk clan can't make her mind up,was she born in Bintree,Brisley or Beetley?And of course she was born anywhere between 1865 and 1880 depending which census you read. Then the lot from Downham keep moving the goalposts,at least they always say Downham something,but then they split over about 5 boarding houses around Acton from 1881 onwards. Glen

Really easy to trace father's dad and his uncles, aunts etc. Plain sailing (almost) to get back to the 1770s. But sorting out some of the branches! Struggling to find a wife who says she is born Thurston on the census. Checked reg districts to see which one covered Thurston and despaired - there's Thurton, Thurlton, Thursfield etc. Finally did what i should have at the start - checked Genuki's list of Norfolk towns & parishes. Thurston is also known as Thuxton!!!!!!!!!!! What with Wymondham being Windum and the trouble I've had with Cossey/Costessey/Coslany! Why couldn't they all have been born in Yarmouth?

aaarrrhh!