Help on St George Hanover Square

Question

I have been working on the Hobhouse family tree and cannot find a Category for St George Hanover Square. I have seen it both under London and Middlesex when looking up information on the internet and I don't really want to put it in the wrong place.

I would appreciate a wonderful wikitreer to help me out with this and let me know.

• Wendy Jones-21849 

Answer 1

Hi Wendy. Here it is:

Category: St George Hanover Square, Middlesex

For future reference, the way I found it was to use the Find menu and select Search. Then at the bottom of the resulting page, I did a search for "Hanover" using the radio button Categories.

You can also find it by using    while editing.

Edited to fix format of icon.

Comments

Thank you for the star, Wendy!

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Thank you so much, I find the two very confusing and will use the   while editing in the future.  Wendy

Answer 2

Would you like to know something wonderful about London and Middlesex? They were used almost interchangeably up until 1965 (and even somewhat now) except for in the very small 'City of London'. In the strictest legal sense, Greater London and therefore St George Hanover Square was 'Middlesex' pre-1965 but it's also important to consider that to many people 'Middlesex' had no meaning. In the eyes of most they were Londoners through and through and 'Middlesex' was their government branding.

In essence, Middlesex represents a defined boundary that was usually sometimes used by the government and London was an identity that people stood behind. So it's your choice: St George Hanover Square was London, Middlesex and both, all at the same time to different people.