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    Wilkes_ml
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    Default Banking Com. ? Place in Berkshire?

    before I transfer these burial entries into strays, could someone who knows Berkshire shed some light on this parish, if it existed? I've looked at my usual sources and (googlemaps, freereg, parloc) and can't find any parish in Berkshire begining with Banking!

    Below is a snippet showing the parish name, written with a squiggle over the com. Click on image to zoom in.


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    Hi
    I read it as Bauking com and the closest I can find is This reference but there isn't an L in your image however it does say it was known as Bauking in the 16th century

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    Default Baulking, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)

    Yes, I too read it as Bauking and then a quick search revealed that it is Baulking, a little village in the Vale of the White Horse. These days it is in Oxfordshire.

    Info from Vision of Britain: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2099.

    Here's a photo of the church: https://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/baulking.html.

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    Thanks very much! I knew someone would come up with the right place. I'm wondering if Com. is short for common, but can't see it on a modern map.

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    There's a reference to it here, with a map!

    https://common-land.com/lands/view/1126

    Peter

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    Thanks Peter,though I had to laugh that Baulking Common is now "private" and was disputed ( nothing unusual there as land disputes have been going on for centuries!)

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    I'm wondering if Com. is short for common,
    Com. = Comatus (Latin) = County

    Thus "Baulking, County of Berkshire"

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    Thanks Peter, that is interesting to know,so in these two instances, the entries could have been entered by a different person to previous stray entries, where County was written as "County" and instead written as "com." with a squiggle on top!

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    I don't suppose it was an early internet domain name - baulking.com

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    You can imagine how many Google hits I got when I entered Banking com

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