Wrong location on UK census, London moved to Lancashire
As a not very frequent user here I don't know if this is the correct place to post.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWGV-FX3
Has the incorrect location of Parish Church of Lowton Saint Luke, Lowton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
It's actually 200 miles away in St Luke, , London, England (It's difficult to define exactly where this should be as it's an area that crosses parishes, but definitely London)
Thanks!
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Yuk (to use a technical term).
It's far from obvious to me where this place should map to.
The index is supplied by FindMyPast and if I go to FMP, the (postal) address for this family is "2 X Block Peabody Buildings Baird ST, St Luke, London & Middlesex, England".
Working from the FS Standard Places, "St. Luke, London" gives (at the top of the list) "St Luke's Church, Canning Town, Newham, London, England, United Kingdom". That's something like 6 miles from today's Baird St, so seems unlikely to be right.
If it was me, with the luxury of time, I'd use the Registration District of Holborn (which is on that FMP supplied index). St. Luke is the Registration Sub-District, rather than a parish, although it might be named for a parish, of course.
Essentially it seems to me that there needs to be some sort of check in the programming that says "St. Luke, London" is not a plausible match to "Parish Church of Lowton Saint Luke, Lowton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom" because although "St. Luke" matches, "Lowton" is not the same as "London". (If the algorithm in the software is doing phonetic matching of "Lowton" to "London" we are in serious trouble given the similarity of many placenames to one another).
But even so - I don't know what it should match to in the FS Standard Places.
PS - if there was an arrowhead by the Event Place (there isn't), would it reveal several other places, including "St Luke's Church, Canning Town, Newham, London, England, United Kingdom"? Interesting…🤨
Good luck with this one @SerraNola !!
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