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Patrick Kelly wrote:
> I don't know if Kings County was ever spelled with an apostrophe. This
> is consistent with a late-1800s map of the area around Galway that I
> saw while in Ireland over the summer. In Ireland everything is
> described with respect to the county, something you rarely see here.
> Any way, the map showed County Kings to the east of County Galway.
> Having spent lot of time preparing for the trip, I knew that modern
> Ireland has no Co. Kings; it is now called Co. Westmeath, and I expect
> it was renamed after the formation of the republic.... and since it is
> west of Co. Meath…
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> Last year I purchased the reprint of the Historical Atlas of the
> Maritime Provinces 1878, (Nimbus Publishing). It has Kings and Queens
> for the counties in N.S. N.B., and P.E.I. and Hants, also without an
> apostrophe. (One oddity about the map that I have found is that there
> are communities of Rawdon, Sth. Rawdon, and Upr. Rawdon, yet the
> district around them is called Randon. I am guessing it is a typo… It
> is also interesting that Kings County only had three districts
> (Aylesford, Cornwallis, and Horton) while Hants County has ten
> (Douglas, Falmouth, Kempt, Maitland, Newport, Rawdon, Shubenacadie,
> Uniacke, Walton, and Windsor).
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> Hi Patrick & All, Oct 11, 2006
There was at least some usage of King's County (NS) in the early
1900s, as in Eaton's 1910 History of Kings County.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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