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From: "M.J.Powell" <>
Subject: Re: Diocese of Bath & Wells location
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:06:54 +0100


In article <8h5oia$4vu$1@plutonium.compulink.co.uk>,
writes
>In article <>,
> (M.J.Powell) wrote:
>
>> In article <B55AC6E0.DE8%>, Richard Beall
>> <> writes
>> >Hello all of you wonderfully brilliant people!
>> >
>> >Could someone help out a geographically challenged Canadian?
>> >
>> >I have just received my gg-grandparents marriage certificate. They
>> were
>> >married in Monmouthshire, Wales (or maybe England then). The bride's
>> >residence at time of marriage is given as (what appears to be)
>> (S?)windford
>> >in the Diocese of Bath & Wells. Would anyone know if this would
>> actually be
>> >Swindford? Also, would the Diocese of Bath & Wells be in Somerset? I
>> know
>> >the groom's family was in Somerset, as I believe Bath is.
>> >
>> >My goodness, their writing on some of these certificates is atrocious.
>> <g>
>> >
>> >I'd appreciate any assistance, or direction in how to locate this
>> "Diocese"
>> >information.
>>
>> Some parishes in south Wales came under the jurisdiction of the Bishop
>> of Bath and Wells.
>>
>> Mike
>> --
>
>Winsford? In Somerset, on Exmoor.

S (outh) Winsford?

Mike
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M.J.Powell

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