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Originally Posted by Phoenix
In the 1980s, "Riverside Cottage, Xham" would reach my great-aunt. Admittedly, when I accepted a lift from a stranger (  - different times!) and mentioned her, he said, "Oh yes, I know Mrs Y"
Granny's birth certificate in the 1890s only names the village.
Interestingly, someone has posted the digital image of a birth in a Norfolk village in the 1860s, and the heading there only says when born, though in this case the hamlet is named. |
Even in the 1980's there were some rural people whose address was just their name and the village where they lived, plus of course the postcode.