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Geography info please
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Dedrah | Report | 9 Aug 2004 07:40 |
Can anyone from Staffs let me know how close Leek and Horten are please? Thanks Dee |
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Crista | Report | 9 Aug 2004 07:44 |
Dee, Search for Leek here. http://www.multimap*com/ It's about 2 miles. Crista |
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Dedrah | Report | 9 Aug 2004 18:16 |
what I really wanted to know was if someones birth was registered in Leek could the have been born in Horton. |
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John | Report | 9 Aug 2004 18:58 |
Yes. I got info from FreeBMD site. Leek Created 1st July 1837. Sub-districts : Biddulph; Leek; Leek Frith; Longnor; Norton. GRO volumes : XVII (1837-51); 6b (1852-1930). Alstonfield (1837-69), Bagnal (from 1897), Biddulph (from 1893), Bradnop and Cawdry, Butterton, Endon and Stanley, Fawfieldhead, Grindon, Heathylee, Heaton, Hollinsclough, Horton, Leek, Leek Frith, Longnor, Longsdon, Lowe, Norton in the Moors, Onecote, Quarnford, Rudyard, Rushton James, Rushton Spencer, Sheen, Smallthorne, Tittesworth, Warslow and Elkestones, Wetton (1837-69). Registers now divided between Staffordshire Moorlands and Stoke on Trent districts. |
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Dedrah | Report | 10 Aug 2004 19:42 |
Thanks a lot every one I think that solves my problem with my Abraham Shufflebottom |