Genealogy Chat

Can anyone advise on how I can find out where Whithaven in Yorkshire is? My g/g/grandmother gives this as her place of birth on one census. (She also gives Bacup Lancashire and Bury Lancashire so can't make her mind up). I have tried Google and my trusty road atlas and can find Whitehaven in Cumbria but not Whithaven in Yorkshire. Any tips would be very much appreciated.

I tried looking on http://www.streetmap.co.uk but I couldn't find it in Yorkshire - Maybe it was a mistake

I use Memory-Map OS Edition which is a quite detailed map and I can't find a Whithaven in Yorkshire. The nearest I can find is a Whithill which is just north east of Appletreewick.

Perhaps it was just a mistake by the enumerator who could have meant Whitehaven. You also have to remember that there have been boundary changes so some places are not in the counties that they used to be.

Kath. x

Just an example of why you should not get bogged down with mistranscriptions.
1901
Isaac Simon Eliza abt 1834 Whithaven, Yorkshire, England Head Tottenham, Middlesex
1891
Isaac Simon Eliza abt 1834 Whitchaven, Cumberland, England Head Stoke Newington, London
1881
Isaac Simon Eliza abt 1834 Whitehaven, Cumberland, England Head Hornsey, Middlesex
1871
Isaac Simon Elin abt 1834 Whitehouse; Camberwell Head Stoke Newington St Mary, London

How about?
1861
Ann Gradwell William abt 1811 Whitehaven Bishopside, Yorkshire, England Wife High Bishopside and Low Bishopside, Yorkshire

Whitehaven is on the East coast of Yorkshire

apologies - should have said West coast - an age thing you know!!!

Ann,

Where is it on the East coast?

According to Genuki Yorkshire it isn't mentioned.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/index.html

Christine

google:-

Flamingoland Rentals
21 Jubilee Road
Whitehaven
North Yorkshire
CA28 6XJ

down the coast from Workington

if you have access to Google Earth take a look on there

The post code given takes you to Whitehaven in Cumbria on the west coast, not North Yorkshire

well according to my atlas it is definitely on the West coast - I am positive about it's location - my sister's husband once refused a transfer there with his insurance company and when we saw where it was and what it looked like we could well understand - no offence to Whitehaven residents - but it's a one horse town!!!

Whitehaven harbour and town.

This Georgian town, situated on the west coast of Cumbria, was one of the first post-renaissance planned towns in the country. Built on shipping and mining, both industries have now declined, but Whitehaven is never-the-less an attractive town and is one of the 40 Gem Towns in England (the only other in Cumbria being Cockermouth).

The development of Whitehaven owes much to the Lowther family, it was Sir John Lowther, inspired by Christopher Wren's designs for rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666, who laid out the original grid system of streets and specified the type of houses to be built.

On Flatt Walks, looking down Lowther Street is Sir John Lowther's former home, known as 'The Castle' since the beginning of the 18th Century. The building became Whitehaven Hospital in 1926, and is now housing. It was designed by Robert Adam, the most fashionable architect of his period.

Workington is on the West coast.!

There is a Flamingo land ( a zoo) in North Yorkshire near Malton but not Whitehaven

Christine

That's what we are saying, its on the West coast but your post at 10.46 said it was on the East coast of Yorkshire.

Christine

Sorry, just re-read it, my mistake on that one, but I have been saying West coast and west coast it is

Ann

Pleased we've got the east and west cleared up lol.

Christine

and so say all of us - sorry for the confusion in my posting!!

No need to apologise, confusion happens to us all.

Obviously some people classed it as Yorkshire although it's really Cumbria.

Christine

There is a Whitworth abt 8 km S of Bacup, on the road to Bury via Rochdale. Both Whitworth and Bacup are within 5 km of the Yorks border on my 1954 map.