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Anyone here from Gloucester?

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Audrey

Audrey Report 18 Apr 2005 05:21

Anyone heard of a place in Gloucester called Atswold? I looked on IGI and it's not listed. Could be that the name was changed as my info comes from a Rellie born in 1534. Thanks, Audrey in Canada

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 18 Apr 2005 08:19

Hi Audrey, Where did you find it - it could be a mistranscription? Gwynne

Researching:
Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

Sylvie

Sylvie Report 18 Apr 2005 08:38

Not heard of it either but could the A be Co? The Cotswolds are a large area of high ground in Gloucestershire? A Canadian might not know that? Sylvie in Gloucestershire.

Researching:
Brown. Paddington, Marylebone, Westminster Middlesex

Geoff

Geoff Report 18 Apr 2005 08:57

Only one 'hit' on Google - a birth in the 16th century - suggests to me that it is not a valid place name. Where in Gloucestershire did the NEXT generation live? It may give a clue if we knew the area.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 18 Apr 2005 09:24

It could have been an old local name as it is a logical one. From Old English place names byP H Reaney: Ast meaning east is common in compounds as in 'Eastbridge, eastbury', but in the Midlands is frequent as 'Ast'. Wald meant forest, woodland & was used especially of high wooded land, when the ground was cleared the name survived and came to mean open upland ground, waste ground, as in Cotswolds. So it looks as though Wauld became Wold. ast could have been Ats misspelt. Just an idea. Ann glos

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Helen

Helen Report 18 Apr 2005 11:09

Audrey, I would ask the same question on the Ancestry message boards, there is a Gloucestershire page. (You don't need to have a subscription). I have been stuck with 2 obscure Gloucestershire place names, one of which had been wrongly transcribed, & in both instances someone on the Gloucestershire board was able to provide the information. Good Luck, Helen.

Audrey

Audrey Report 18 Apr 2005 17:11

Thankyou so much all of you, I love this board! I 'Googled' ATSWOLD-Gloucestershire and couldn't believe what came up! Probably what Jeff found, a birth in 1600 something., This was the Rellie I was looking for and Atswold/Cotswold is the same thing it also says. By the way, I live in Canada but am from Cardiff Wales, again thanks, Audrey