Family talk:Arthur Batie and Sisley Telfer (1)

Places in Northumberland and Durham, England [21 March 2020]

I have done my best to find the places listed in red within this family. I worked on placenames for the north of England a couple of years ago, but I was unfamiliar with the territory and I am quite sure I did not sort everything out.

The main clue I used in looking at your records was the number of mentions of Falstone Presbyterian Chapel for baptisms. I reckoned it must be in a place named Falstone. Sure enough, there was one. That led me to believe that many of the places that you mention for births must be close by. I would think Bellingham would be a pretty safe bet for Bellen, but I am not half so sure of the other ones.

Some of the family moved to Middlesex County, Ontario before Canadian Confederation so I have named the townships taking the contemporary name of Ontario into consideration. These will all fall into Ontario in our database. In one entry you said the burial was in Telfer Cemetery; in another entry you preceded the name of the cemetery with a Middlesex County township for the death, so I reckoned both siblings emigrated although you did not say so.

But one thing that is missing from all your entries is SOURCES for your data. If you had told us where you obtained your information and how it was written down where you found it, sorting out the names of places would have been a lot easier. Genealogists want sources for the material donated to databases. That is how we know we are presenting material on real people.

We ask contributors to given placenames in full: the name of the parish, the county, and the country (which, in the case of England, is England, no more). If the spelling of the parish is consistent with that we have in our database, a prompt will come up to help with the county.

Regards, --Goldenoldie 20:29, 21 March 2020 (UTC)