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From: "Ron Cushman" <>
Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Gamesport???
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:30:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: <407566DC.BF62A7E4@shaw.ca>


From "General Alphabetical Index TO THE TOWNLANDS AND TOWNS, PARISHES AND BARONIES OF IRELAND", based
on the 1851 census. Originally published 1861, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD. ISBN: 0-8063-1052-
9

There is no "Gamesport" listed as either a Townland, Parish or Barony in the above text.

Groomsport is listed in the above, as a townland, and a town, both in civil parish of Bangor, Poor Law Union of Newtonards

There is a map of County Down, showing the location of Bangor at http://proni.nics.gov.uk/geogindx/down.htm
Unfortunately, the link to the map of the parish, showing the location of Groomsport within the parish, is broken
( http://proni.nics.gov.uk/geogindx/parishes/par048.htm )

Ron

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:51:08 -0700, G Wheeler wrote:

>Has anyone on the list ever heard of a place called Gamesport in county
>Down Ireland? I now have two census reports from Scotland that list
>Gamesport as the place of birth for an ancestor of mine. I had been
>advised that perhaps it was Groomsport but I find it odd that Gamesport
>would be given on two separate census ten years apart. Could it have
>been a farm?
>
>Thanks
>Gai
>


Ron Cushman

ON, Canada



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