Genealogy Chat

Hi Ken Could you possibly look at MUNNS and FINCH please. My Munns are in Kent at moment but think may lead to elsewhere, Finch are in Surrey. Thank you Sarah

Hi Ken, thanks, only ones that tie in with my research are Riggs and Lowman both mine originated in Dorset. Ann Glos

Matchett - Midlands, Leics/Notts/Derbys borders - Shardlow Russell - big difference here two centres Lanarkshire & Isle of Wight going by your other names I assume you are interested in the Scottish lot Dick - Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Fifeshire Armour - Lanarkshire, Ayrshire McFarland - Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire ( Lancs - W. Derby) *note the data on Scotland is based purely on 1881 census there is no Poor Union information

Ken Many thanks for taking the time to look up my Taggs, Mills, Mitchells etc... Karen.

Parrington - Sedburgh

Olde Crone, methinks you have been partaking of the falling down water I did do a look for Tyler but not Taylor ;-)

Turner - too widespread to form an opinion as to origin large concentration in Lancs and West Riding Industrial areas Wild - Lancs prominently Oldham Wilde - Lancs - Ashton possible Welsh connections I am assuming Wild is a later derivation of Wilde and there appears to be a general northward shift Corin - emphatically Cornwall emanating from Penzance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keogh - Lancs, Liverpool/. Derby/ Prescot Keough - Bolton/Stockport but low numbers Welsh ..... Southern Scotland, Northumberland & Co. Durham Lanarkshire ( Selkirkshire) Sunderland Betts - Eastern England - Norfolk, Norwich & St. Faiths Price - Welsh borders - Merthyr Tydfil & Brecknock

Thanks Ken for the reply. Can I ask for one more please? Could you check PARRINGTON for me? Thank you...Janine

Hi Ken, Could you try: Matchett Russell Dick Armour McFarland only when you have time. Thanks Anne

thanks for this great offer some of mine are as follows keough /keogh welsh betts price

Thank you for the information Ken, very kind of you, Best wishes

Thanks for my lot Ken Linda

Thankyou for your reply, Ken - a bit odd then, that I have a family of twelve, if your source says only one??? And I havent looked for any other Taylors either, but really have difficulty in believing it was a 'rare' name anywhere, let alone Lancashire!!!! Sorry to be awkward.....LOL UPDATE Have I gone completely insane, or what??? Did I merely DREAM the info you posted re Taylors? I cannot find the post!!!! (But, looking quickly on the 1881 on LDS, there are literally THOUSANDS of Taylors, both in AND out of Lancashire, as I suspected) Going for a quiet lie-down and some medicine, I think. Olde Crone

You're working well, Ken!! :-) CORIN, please

Hello Olde Crone the program I use is based on the 1881 census, and aggregate data from the Poor Law Unions Ken xx

Allen - a hard one this Lancs & W. Riding, Middlesex and Surrey all have large numbers but per % of population showsSedburgh and Aysgarth then surprisingly Huntingdonshire Bate - 2 Areas - Leigh & Warrington - Stourbridge, Dudley & Wolverhampton Cox - Middlesex & Surrey, (possibility of Barton Regis) Duffin - Bradfield in Berks & Nottingham? Ingram - Aberdeenshire, Warwickshire, Middlesex ( Welsh connection Rhayader) Knight SE and Midlands would need to go further back possibly Lowman - Dorset, Weymouth ( Hants, New Forest) Martin - again several possible sources West Country most likely and strong presence in W. Derby, Lancs maybe nautical reasons Oram - Wiltshire, Westbury (Devizes, Pewsey) Riggs - Dorset, Dorchester (Blandford) Warner - sorry unable to form an opinion on this too widespread

Hi Ken. Thaankyou very interesting. My Shentons Hanley Shelton S-O-T Proctor(er)Fenton S-O-T also Audley Staffs Forrester Buchnall, Northwood, Hanley S-O-T Richardson Ellsmere port Cheshire Moreton Madley staffs Thank's Gill

Thanks very much Ken. Glen.

Hi Ken, You were right for most of the families: Lewis in Monmouthshire Pleass in Somerset Samuel in Glamorgan and Merthyr Tydfil Tolley in Worcestershire Powell in Welsh borders Rapsey in Devon The exceptions were: Metcalf without the (e) was from York Lawrence and Seaborne were both Pembrokeshire Richards and Mulford were both Somerset That was very interesting, thank you very much.

Hi Ken, Thanks very much for your time and effort. You were spot on with your results. Happy Easter, Sue.