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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: John Evander SMITH
In Response To: Re: John Evander SMITH ()

Jan. I am intrigued at your suggestion there is a Haven on the east coast of England. I would like more details if possible. Haven or "hafen" in German is the name for a harbour or a safe anchorage at the mouth of a river. I have not known it used by itself. Frances Coakley is almost certainly right in her suggestion that Whitehaven was the place inferred. John Quirk