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From: "Dave Napier" <>
Subject: Re: [B&D] B&AFHS - GFHS demarcation?
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:09:58 -0000
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Hi Phil

Thanks for your reply :) I concur with your thoughts about Avon.

However, as a Bristolian I have to respectfully explain that Bristol is most
definitely not "in" Gloucestershire (now I know you're only trying to wind
me up really).

This subject comes up from time to time and I'm sorry to drone on but ...
we ol' Bristoliuns just aftoo get on are eye'orses to explain that 837 year
ago, king 'Enry II granted the city its first royal charter; then only 792
years ago, 'Enry III permitted Bristol to choose a Mayor "after the manner
of London". Then, 635 years ago (in 1373) Edward III (alright we paid him!
but he was the king....) constituted Bristol as an independent county (this
was the first grant of the kind conferred on any borough).

Don't get me wrong, we likes Gloucestershire and we likes Somerset (we even
likes Wiltshire)... but we ain't in um, or part of um, we'm sep'rut.

Regards

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Warn" <>
To: "Dave Napier" <>;
<>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [B&D] B&AFHS - GFHS demarcation?


Hello Dave,

After your original email about B&AFHS CD
publications I printed off the six page
"spreadsheet" data and looked at the Parishes
there listed.Quite a few occur in my family tree
(URL in my signature block) and so I may well be
buying a CD or three when I feel i have the wherewithall so to do.

Living as I do in south east London aka north
west Kent, I cannot see myself getting to Bristol
very often unless I get lucky on the National Lottery!

I have always thought of Bristol as in
Gloucestershire and Avon is/was a modern
invention ignored by most family historians. Somerset, yes, Avon, no way,
José!

I thought Avon was a door to door cosmetics company!

Thanks

Phil

At 16:08 16/03/2008, Dave Napier wrote:
>As indicated in my previous email, you can use the map on our website to
>indicate local parishes for which you might find data held by B&AFHS
>(either published on our CDs or available for all to view in our research
>room in the Bristol Records Office).

Phil Warn ô¿ô
Genealogists do it backwards
Family Historians take all steps
"The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722"
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>;



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