Re: Parish named Middleshaw, Suffolk ?

Renia wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:
Does anyone know of a plausible parish in Suffolk called something that might look like "Middleshaw" when badly written in a register?

I know I am looking for a needle in a haystack. John Brown b:1802 allegedly in Middleshaw, Suffolk if his marriage certificate in East Walton Norfolk is to be believed. Census data just says "out of county". IGI gives a few John Browns and I will look them up but they seem to be too far away from the Norfolk border to be plausible suitors.

I can't find anything that even vaguely matches this parish name, and the big families of Browns seem to be on the far side of the county at Glensford & Cavendish. They don't seem likely candidates at all.

Thanks for any enlightenment.

The 1851 census of the Crown Inn, Cavendish, Norfolk, has him as 1 40-year-old Drover not born in Norfolk.

The 1851 census of Narborough, Norfolk, has him as a Crown Porter, age 49, born Middlesham, Suffolk. With wife Susan.

In 1861, John Brown and wife Susan were still living in Narborough. He was then a 59-year-old coal merchants labourer. His place of birth was given as Thwaite, in Suffolk.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/ThwaiteStGeorge/index.html

Thwaite is 2 miles NW of Mendlesham.

Thanks for that. I would never have guessed. Thwaite = Mendlesham.

I had exactly the same problem with Liverpool = West Derby.

Last time I looked for him I didn't know about the second marriage to Susan so although I had these data they were filed and marked as not the right one but same year of birth. There are still a lot of John Browns (b:1802) to check!

BTW: I had completely forgotten about asking this question before.

Thwaite IGI transcriptions only contain 1865-1875 so it is consistent and that has to be the first place I will look.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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