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Subject: [WRY] Re: WEST-RIDING-D Digest V00 #145
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:44:04 EST


For Marc who asks:

> In the 1851 census there were 10 counties in Eng. where Westwoods lived.
> West-Riding was one. There are two I can't locate. They are abreviated
as:
> Fif & Sal. Does anyone know what these stand for?

SAL is Shropshire ('Salop'). FIF is Fifeshire, which of course is a Scottish
rather than an English county.

Chris Bradley


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