Whereabouts of Lydley (General)

by Bob Philpott , North Wiltshire, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 13:02 (4914 days ago) @ samfrank

Sam, Have you considered that this is simply a misprint for Lydney. In those days illiteracy rates were quite high and census takers and others (including vicars) simply wrote down what they thought they heard. Lydney was in the Chepstow area for registration at that time. I grew up in Lydney and even in those days would find envelopes would arrive spelled all sorts of ways (even letters that had gone to Australia, Sydney, and back). The name of the person was spelled wrong so it is likely the town was as well.