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Offline Mimble

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Surnames in certain areas
« on: Friday 07 April 06 21:19 BST (UK) »
Hi
Does anyone know a website showing where particular surnames are most common throughout the UK?
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Morgan, Wilcox, Hulbert, Olive - Gloucestershire; Diggines, Gill, Rivers, Bull, Powell, Howell - Bristol; Hulley, Cawood - Yorkshire and South Africa; Stedman,  Hamar, Luther - Shropshire; Staddon, Rawle, Richards, Kemp -  West Somerset; Jones - Bettws, Montgomeryshire and Mainstone, Shropshire; Williams - Beguildy, Radnorshire; Coleman - Kent; Gradwell, Strickland - Lancashire;  Moodie -  Orkneys; Montgomery - Armagh, Down and Kildare; Parke - Kildare and Wicklow; Brangan - Bandon, Cork.

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #1 on: Friday 07 April 06 22:25 BST (UK) »
Hi,
have you tried this site?

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/

I have just tried the link and there is a message to say they are moving their server, but will (should) be back on line after the weekend.  It has distribution for the present and the 19thC and other bits of info - the maps are great, some of the other stuff takes a bit of time to understand.
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Carra
Bann - Poynton, Cheshire
Maguire - Dublin
Barkley - Antrim

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 08 April 06 09:36 BST (UK) »
Thank you Carra. I shall check it again next week.  :)
Morgan, Wilcox, Hulbert, Olive - Gloucestershire; Diggines, Gill, Rivers, Bull, Powell, Howell - Bristol; Hulley, Cawood - Yorkshire and South Africa; Stedman,  Hamar, Luther - Shropshire; Staddon, Rawle, Richards, Kemp -  West Somerset; Jones - Bettws, Montgomeryshire and Mainstone, Shropshire; Williams - Beguildy, Radnorshire; Coleman - Kent; Gradwell, Strickland - Lancashire;  Moodie -  Orkneys; Montgomery - Armagh, Down and Kildare; Parke - Kildare and Wicklow; Brangan - Bandon, Cork.

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 08 April 06 12:27 BST (UK) »
Another trick is to go to 1881 census on familysearch and type in surnames and see what the distribution is like as you scan down the entries. e.g. I am interested in FORSHAW of which 80% are in Lancashire.
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Aberdeenshire: Nelson, Middleton, Dow, McLennan, Hendry
Ross & Cromarty: McLennan, Macaulay
Midlothian: Nelson, Lumsden
Berwickshire: Lumsden, Melrose
Stirlingshire: Dick
West Lothian/Lanark: Wark
West Yorkshire: Wormald, Cooper, Snowden, Sykes (all Drighlington/Adwalton), Thackeray (Tong)
Warwickshire: Payne (Coleshill/Solihull), Forshaw (Coleshill), Drakeford (Coleshill)
Somerset: Quartley
NZ: Thompson (Dunedin)
also Poland, Belarus, Romania

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 11 April 06 22:24 BST (UK) »
The spatial literacy site is available again. Its totally fascinating how some names have travelled and others haven't so much. The frequency is useful as well - its helped me to work out which of the names in my ancestry are unusual and which others are fairly common but I just haven't come across them much before.

Have a try - its addictive!

Fiona
Armitage, Austin, Bray, Brogden, Cawthrey, Cox, Fielding, Gill, Hemingway, Hutchinson Jackson, Kay / Kaye, Marsden, Marshall, Midgley, Moore, Naylor, Peel, Powell, Priestley, Scott, Sharp, Shooter, Spencer, Stead, Tuke, Wade, Ward / Warde, Wightman and Wood - all from within a 15 mile radius of Leeds. I could draw a circle on an OS map with villages of origin!

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 11 April 06 23:10 BST (UK) »
What a fab site and as you say addictive. It is saved to my favourites play with again !!
I have Kerfoots from Wales but know they originated in Lancs and the info certainly confirms that
Thanks

Cal
UK Census Transcriptions are Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk                Bigg-Sheppey/West Ham<br />Dodd - Cheshire <br />Ingram - Dorset, London, Morlaix, Australia, California<br />Kerfoot - Warrington, Pemberton, St Asaph<br />McKinneley - N Ireland, Liverpool <br />Marshall - Midlothian, Cheshire<br />Morrish-Chelsea<br />Shiel - Melrose<br />Woodhall- Liverpool, Shropshire/Staffordshire<br />Dagliesh- Melrose<br />Stevenson - Melrose<br />Smith & Jones! Scotland & Wales

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Re: Surnames in certain areas
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 16:05 BST (UK) »
I love it - it is dead interesting!

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McLeods - Hartlepool, Liverpool, Inverness(?)<br />Simpsons - Carlisle, Westmorland<br />Harris - Carlisle, Kent<br />Reads - Birmingham and Staffordshire<br />Allens - Marylebone London<br />Zych - Poland
Holmes - Bawdsey, Suffolk
Perks - Hampshire
McQueen - Carlisle
Carrick - Carlisle
Haugh - Carlisle
Irving - Irving
Collett - Bredon, Worcester
Harrison - Carlisle
Knight - Carlisle
Thompson - Carlisle
Johnstone - Carlisle
Rogerson - Dumfries and Carlisle
Wood - Ontario
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