Do you know where ORCHON, Notts. might be?

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Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 380 Send Message	Rosemary	Report	12 Feb 2004 19:16
	On the 1881 census my Grandfather, William George Britton is actually named as Button. His eldest son, George Thomas(aged 11) is given the birthplace of Orchon, Nottingham. I can find no birth registration either on Freebmd or 1837online for him. I have trawled the registration districts for Derbyshire, Nottingham and Lancashire for Orchon without success. Could Orchon be a mis-spelling, or a mis-pronounciation? Was it unusual to be born in one place and perhaps registered in another district? Hope someone can help. I cannot find George or his brother John Henry on any other census. I am fairly certain they were still living in the 1900's as my mother (b.1904) remembered them visiting - they were her half brothers. Rosemary (Chelmsford)
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 3,439 Send Message	Geoff	Report	12 Feb 2004 19:30
	Orston perhaps? (about 4 miles east of Bingham, 10 miles south of Newark)
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 380 Send Message	Rosemary	Report	12 Feb 2004 22:26
	Thanks Geoff, I'll try that. I have a feeling the only birth I could find for Britton for that date was not Notts. Rosemary(Chelmsford)