the fury of the nib that blobs then runs out of ink!!

[sandrajgay]

1861 Census return
Class: RG9; Piece: 1266; Folio: 55; Page: 4; Hopton Suffolk

I need help to decipher the birthplace of Elizabeth Jolly b 1789(4th from bottom of page)

It is transcribed as St Maycades at Elean but I have been able to locate neither church or village with a name that comes within cooee of the transcription. It may be St Margaret or St Mary something.

Can someone please help me with this one??

with thanks, Sandra

[JenniLl]

What awful writing!

I think that it is meant to read St Margaret at Elmham. Perhaps the clerk could not read the original very well in the first instance!

Jenni:)

[JenniLl]

Sandra,

A second thought that it could also read St Mary at the Elms (Ipswich). So it would be worth following up both South Elmham and Ipswich.

Jenni :)

[Thomasin]

Could it be St Margarets at Clear/Clere/Clare or even Cleve? By the way, FMP has the surname transcribed as Jolling.

Thomasin

[Thomasin]

Just seen Jenni's posts and would add the possibility of St Margaret at Elam.

Thomasin

[sandrajgay]

Thanks JenniLi and Thomasin, now I have something to work with.|biggrin|