Genealogy Chat

Hi Ken: Thanks for the tips, was research family and trying to find general information on a marriage that took place in Bedale, Yorkshire... Place was her last name......but her spouse was from Rochdale. Could you do : Turner Wilde and is there a distiction with the e

Ken Please can I ask what kind of time-span your source is using? I have a family of twelve, surname Taylor, in Lancashire in 1881! Sorry if I have missed the point..... Olde Crone

Eidsforth - Lancs, Preston ( are yours Hackney?)

Hailey - Hitchin & Amersham Crickmore - East Anglia - Suffolk - Lodden (Norfolk) Blything, Mutford & Langford Pateman - Herts. Royston & Biggleswade Downing - Staffs. (W. Riding) Dudley Wolstanton & West Bromwich (Sheffield)

hi Eidsforth. iknow alot are in preston, not my lot though no link there anyway yet. cheers karen

Thank you ken when you have time I have Allen Bate Lowman Cox Duffin Riggs Warner Martin Knight Ingram Oram To name a few. Ann glos

Hi Ken - could you check on my names please? Dawes Blower(s) Stanway Grindley Pascall Many thanks Jxx

Hi Ken, You were spot on with my Yarhams and Dunthornes. Well done! My Kemps came from the same area as my Yarhams and Dunthornes (Walsingham and Docking). (NORFOLK) Ablitts came from Sutton, Waldringfield and Needham Market. (SUFFOLK) Wildings are also called Wilden and came from Needham Market (SUFFOLK) Thanks for this - much appreciated! Cheers, Horatia

Thank you, Ken. Interesting about my SADD / SAD family - so far they are from Suffolk back to the early 18th century.

Hi Ken, Thanks for offer. I'd be grateful for: HAILEY CRICKMORE PATEMAN DOWNING

Warren - mainly Southern England (possibly Newton Abbot ) Funnell - SE England - Sussex, Lewes, Brighton, Hailsham

Ablitt - Suffolk - Woodbridge Wilding - Lancs, Preston ( Suffolk, Hartismere) Yarham & Dunthorne - Norfolk, Walsingham Kemp - Sussex Ticehurst and Hailsham - Halstead , Essex - Blean, Kent ( Hoxne, Suffolk) going by the majority of your names I assume your Wildings and Kemps are from Suffolk?

Lawrence - Middx, Surrey, Kent - Islington, Lambeth, Wandsworth Lewis - Sth Wales Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire ( & Carmarthenshire) Merthyr Tydfil & Pontypridd Metcalf - Lancs (W. Riding) Blackburn & Burnley ( Bradford & Leeds) Metcalfe - West and North Ridings, Aysgarth, Bradford and Skipton would hazard a guess that move to industrial areas caused dropping of 'e' Mulford - Berks. - Wantage Pleass - Somerset, Taunton Powell - Welsh borders predominantly south, Merthyr Tydfil & Hereford Rapsey - Cornwall & Devon, Truro and Honiton Richards - Sth Wales & West country Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd - Penzance & Redruth Samuel - Sth Wales Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil ( Pontypridd) Seaborne - Welsh borders, either side -Kington Radnorshire & Hereford Tolley - Worcs. Kidderminster, Bromsgrove

Hi and thanks for the offer, mine are: WARREN FUNNELL

wow! thats a great result.Many thanks here is feedback on the names Kind regards Kat Roberts- absolutely N.Wales and caernarvonshire also denbighshire and merionethshire.My Roberts have a connection to the grandmother of the Earl of Snowden researching it at mo so this info is great. Cartwright-yes again all my Cartwrights from Dudley area Hemming-yes warwickshire Aston France-? but this is a newish name Newman- yes some of our newmans were in southern england for a few years ,but came from the North, the name was changed from Neumann after WW1 my grt grandfather was German.(hence the name change) that just leaves the unusual ones!! Smith-they are everywhere but mine are from the north Dare I ask any luck with Wilson? Thanks again

FORD - 2200 occurences in Lancs, 3400 in Middx, 1645 in Devon but as percentage of population highest county concentration Wiltshire. Narrowed down highest occurences Barton Regis 513, Aston 397, Birmingham 321 as percentage of pop. Mere 1.4%, Tisbury 1.1%, Wilton 1%, Sth Molton 1%, Dursley 0.9%, Chapel-en-le-Firth 0.8%, not sure what to make of this other than predominently West of England Pool - Wolverhampton and W. Derby industrial gathering?

Hi Ken, Thanks for your kind offer. How about these surnames: ABLITT WILDING YARHAM DUNTHORNE KEMP Cheers, Horatia

Unusual lot of names you got there Kat lol Smith - Central England (most likely) Roberts - NW Wales in particular Caernarvonshire Cartwright - Staffs, Stourbridge, Dudley and Wolverhampton ( Wigan and Huddersfield) Newman - Southern England, Westbury, Wiltshire (London) France - West Riding, Huddersfield Hemming - Warwickshire,- Aston, Alcester

Hi thanks for your offer mine are Roberts Wilson Cartwright Newman France Hemming Smith Kat

Hansford - definitely Southern England, would say Dorset - Bridport (poss. Dorchester) Petheram (Petherham) - I had thought this would be Cornwall but was wrong - Axbridge, Somerset Innes - Aberdeenshire