Interesting Exercise - try search with "nee XXXX"

[Rakiura John]

Poured yourself a cuppa and drumming your fingers, wondering where next to direct your attentions? Try googling your Surname interest with a nee in front of it. Make sure you put your search in speechmarks to ensure your search is for that exact phrase, e.g. enter: "nee Glendinning". Obviously more worthwhile for your more unusual Surnames. Might just give you a lead for something interesting to follow.

[Fresh Fields]

Best of luck with SMITH, JOHNSON & WILLIAMS, all of which get a look in, like I assume many other Kiwi families with strong UK roots.

Putting "nee Smith" with the name of a parish or two did produce results for me, but none that I had not already found, and produced a few early fishing posts of my own that I had long since forgotten about. Good to know they are still out there, for someone to see, and perhaps contact me, in the future.

Alan.

[Mart 'n' Al]

One of the obvious problems of being interested in a surname that is also a town (Loughborough in my case) is that you get many irrelevant hits. I try many tricks to overcome this, but searching for "née Loughborough" was one I hadn't considered and it has already given me some new leads. Well done.

I'll add that I did get one spurious one, however, someone with the surname "Nee" at a Loughborough business!

Edit 22:57, I get slightly different results with and without the acute accent on 'née'.

Martin