Where would Highgate be?

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Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 95 Send Message	Sue	Report	30 Jul 2005 16:17
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 95 Send Message	Wonder if someone could help. Have been looking for the record of my grandmother Florence Annie Goode birth. Have found on 1901 cencus says born Highgate london. Have found two entries in 1837 one in Islington, one in West Ham. Both dates tie up with marriage cert i have. Does anyone know if either would have been Highgate? Thank you. sue
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 5 185 Send Message	Pam	Report	30 Jul 2005 16:34
	Highgate is London N6 so Islington is possibly the answer. Pam Best
	Researching: Middlesex, Berkshire and Somerset
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 95 Send Message	Sue	Report	30 Jul 2005 17:12
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 95 Send Message	Thanks for that Pam. Sue
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	30 Jul 2005 23:17
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Highgate is definitely Islington - there's a tube station of that name on the Northern line and it is near Hampstead. It's famous for the Highgate Cemetery in which Karl Marx, Radclyffe Hall and various other famous folk are interred. Nell