Re: Born where?


"Terry" <Terry234@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote>

Check out Joseph Bettison,
boarder at the Sun Inn, Cottesmore
RG13; Piece: 3014; Folio: 17; Page: 26.

In the 1891 census what looks to be the same person gives his place of birth
as Thorne. This area has extensive bog/marshland. See:
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/protectedsites/SACselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012915

So possibly dropped while the mother was working or born in some sort of
shanty dwelling used by bog workers. It probably amused him (especially if
he had downed a few in the pub) to claim he was born 'on the bog'.


The pub looks delightful and from the outside probably
much as it was in1901

Sunk a few pints in there while I was at the TTTE at RAF Cottesmore. Nothing
special.

AV.


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