Could Thornaby-on-Tees be added as a standardised place name.

PaulMaleary

I currently live in Thornaby-on-Tees, and have ancestors who came here in the 1830’s, when the area was 2 small areas of inhabitants, made up of South Stockton, Yorkshire & Thornaby, Yorkshire. With a large influx of people from the 1830’s, in1892 the area got a Royal charter and became Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire (North Riding).

1892-1968 Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire (North Riding), England.

I’m unsure of the official address since 1968 as the the town lost its Royal Charter and the following have been used:-

1968-1974 Thornaby-on-Tees, Teesside, England.

1974-1996 Thornaby-on-Tees, Cleveland, England.

Paul W

Interestingly, there appear to be alternative placenames in the database for nearby Stockton (aka Stockton-on-Tees, and even found as Stockton-upon-Tees in the database), in County Durham.

I don't think I've found "North Riding" (or any of the "Ridings") used by FamilySearch in its database, so pre-1968 events would probably be best shown as "Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom", to conform with the current standardization practice for places in Yorkshire (whatever "Riding") from 1801-1968. (Note that it is only for pre-1801 events are placenames without the United Kingdom suffix considered to be "standard" on this website.)

BTW - even if "North Riding" were to be used as part of the placename, it could not appear in brackets, as brackets are invalid characters in placename inputs.

russellwaltgeorge1

Thornaby-on-Tees is listed as a Alternate Name in Thoraby both in 1801 - 1974, see:

https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?focusedId=2977331

It is also listed as a Alternate Name for 1974 to present:

https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?focusedId=10909471

Paul W

To illustrate, I see Thornaby-on-Tees is shown as an Alternate Name for Thornaby in the drop-down menu. I don't think I've ever seen a placename appear in this format. Is this unique, or just a relatively new way of showing names?

@Gordon Collett - I wonder if you could advise if you've see names recorded like this in the list of options? Thank you.