Cambridgeshire Parish Records

[rosie99]

Is this information then going to be published

Rosie

[AncestryNeeded]

It is a hobby of mine as I am interested in the origin of surnames.

[Redroger]

That will be extremely interesting and potentially useful in dispelling some major errors, i.e. that Luffman is only 200 years old when I have it recorded in its present form back in the 16th century; also determining the origin of another name in my tree, the surname Ayres which seems to be very widely distributed.

[jbml]

Hi Rosie

The sample is going to be used to help ascertain the origins, distribution and meanings of surnames by obtaining an accurate distribution of each surname around 400 years ago.

What an interesting project.

Out of interest, though - can I ask about your methodology? Why marriages? Would burials not have been a better proxy to measure, since everybody dies, but not everybody marries?

Is the point, perhaps, that you are looking for distribution of "family units", and that baptisms would skew the distribution in favour of larger families as against smaller ones?

(You must forgive me ... I often find the design of a survey, and the reasons for designing it as it has been, almost as interesting as th eresults)

[bitty_matriarch]

Have you looked at Wisbech and the Fenlands website: http://contueor.com/wisbech/  ?