Can anyone enlighten me what is meant, or where the place of birth may be, when given as L B?

L B? I can't work it out.

Thanks for ANY insight.

Karen

From what record have you taken this?tO SEE IT WILL HELP.

Hi Karen,

If it's handwritten, could it be "U K" by any chance? If so, it means "unknown".

Christine

Update: Karen - please disregard this post; as Bryan points out, "NK" is the term used, meaning "Not Known". I knew this, but had a memory failure!

Are you looking at a birth certificate or an entry in the census or the free birth indexes?

Karen

Quite a common thing in censuses is "NB" which means "North Briton" which these days we would call Scotland.

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Bryan
PS
Christine - I've never come across "UK" for "Unknown" so that's a new one for me. I have seen "NK" for "Not Known"

Bryan,

You're quite right, I think I had a pre-senior moment. I'll edit my previous post. :-)

Christine

It would be easiest to help if you would provide some point of reference or a copy of the document that contains the abbreviation.

Failing that, you could use GENUKI's Gazetteer at http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/gaz

In the first field, Place name, enter an "L" and change Search type to "Word beginning" and then be prepared to wait a minute or two. You'll be presented with a list of just about every location in the UK beginning with an L and you can then search the list for a location that may have been abbreviated as LB.

Could it be Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

or if a country - LB is the abbreviation for Lebanon

Good luck.

There are a few places abbreviated to L B on various censuses:

L B Hackney (London / Middlesex) = Lea Bridge Road, Hackney
L B Deverill (Wiltshire) = Longbridge Deverill
L B Manchester (Lancashire), not figured out what that one means yet
L B Burn (Durham) = Low Beech Burn
L B (Northumberland) = Longbenton
also as has already been mentioned.
L B (Bedfordshire) = Leighton Buzzard

If L B is part of a place, eg L B of Greenwich then it meant London Borough of Greenwich.