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One of the librarians referred me to the
North Wingfield site.
By following the trail of links there I
found a lot of background
information.
Local Studies groups can often
provide information relating to
addresses. I also had a look at the
Chesterfield and District Family
History Society's (see
cadfhs) website and
emailed the contact to enquire about Barber
Lane in Brampton. There are
websites for other local history
study groups and societies. Their
websites can be found on gateways (see
later) or by using web search
engines. Often their databases may be
partial and limited to members’ own
interests.
While waiting for a response from cadfs, I looked
at another possibility. The
family believed that their
ancestors came from the Barlow/Cutthorpe
area, although the census gave Brampton
as the place of birth. Neither South Terrace nor Barber
Lane were on
old maps but a still copyrighted
map of the Cutthorpe area had a
terrace of houses named South Terrace.
Then, an email response from the chairman
of cadfhs
stated that a) to his knowledge there had
never been a Barber Lane in Brampton but
there had been a South Terrace and that
b) Cutthorpe had been part of the old
sprawling parish of Brampton.
There were now two possible locations
with South Terrace but neither had
Barber Lane. We had to rely on other
means to resolve this issue.
But
what this exercise showed was that
enumerators seem to enter
different levels of the address for the
birthplace and current dwelling.
Where
there is a township with the same name
as the parish, as in the case of Brampton, it can
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