your family name..

Cleat Eastwood

This is a website that charts the spread of your family name based on the 1881 census and data from 1998.

It's really interesting, my family name is still largely concentrated in the NW…hardly any change over 100 yrs+

click on the 'Start a surname search link' and away you go.

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/default.aspx

Pross

Mine was concentrated in South East and Mid Wales at first and pretty much still the same but has spread out into more of South Wales and just over the border to Hereford and Gloucestershire. I think when I looked before there are also a lot of us in New Zealand.

getjim

Mine's so rare it's not on there!

nicklouse

mine is and has been based where I was dragged up. We dont get about too much.

upperoilcan

Wales......Its all about Wales.

Crapaud

Jings, crivvens!!! Mine are all in - brace yourself, I'm going to use foul language here - England. :shock:

:twisted:

verylonglegs

Was and still is around southwest Scotland mainly with other concentrations around Lanacshire and Liverpool, hardly surprising for an Irish surname. I've always lived in Norfolk though.

johnboy183

apparently i should be living in the south-east. so glad i'm not

nikle

All over england but hot spot around the potteries, which doesn't suprise me as thats my father hails from or did.
My mothers name doesn't have any data less than 10 left. She was from herefordshire , I know there are some in Australia their the last of the mohicans!!

FocusZing

It's saying I originate from Wales. I am not Ffing happy at that, there must be some kind of mistake.

tlw1

Not working

Have to fire up the laptop as it might be a flash thing

pneumatic

OOh, that's curious!

1881 - all in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland

1998 - as above plus a few in Aberdeenshire and Central Highlands and very faint traces in Fife and Hertfordshire (that'll be me and my late dad).

Very parochial are we - and Vikings through and through!

BelgianBeerGeek

Always knew mine was originally an E Anglian surname, now checked and yep - Colchester and surprisingly East Sussex and Kent (although I have relatives in Kent the surname is different). Over last 100 years they have migrated to Hull of all places (I have nothing against the fine city of Hull). Very interesting.

Chrissz

None for me and only 1 from 1881 in central London.

FocusZing

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

This is a website that charts the spread of your family name based on the 1881 census and data from 1998.

It's really interesting, my family name is still largely concentrated in the NW…hardly any change over 100 yrs+

click on the 'Start a surname search link' and away you go.

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/default.aspx

Are you sure this bloody site is accurate?

verylonglegs

FocusZing wrote:

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

This is a website that charts the spread of your family name based on the 1881 census and data from 1998.

It's really interesting, my family name is still largely concentrated in the NW…hardly any change over 100 yrs+

click on the 'Start a surname search link' and away you go.

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/default.aspx

Are you sure this bloody site is accurate?

Relax...taff

FocusZing

verylonglegs wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

This is a website that charts the spread of your family name based on the 1881 census and data from 1998.

It's really interesting, my family name is still largely concentrated in the NW…hardly any change over 100 yrs+

click on the 'Start a surname search link' and away you go.

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/default.aspx

Are you sure this bloody site is accurate?

Relax...taff

You Fvcking take that back, BITCH! :evil:


My hairs black, I can't help looking at lambs when I ride past them on my bike :shock:

It all just seem so futile now, so meaningless...

Ands

Mine is Cornish - almost exclsuively in 1881, with some in Devon/Somerset. Now still mostly Cornwall but spreading from SW UK . I grew up in Essex but my dad is Cornish.

kettrinboy

1881, Northants is one of two hotspots for my name and having done family tree research going back to the 18th century, i know i,m related in varying degrees to probably hundreds with my name just in Northampton town alone.

nwallace

South West Scotland and Fife in 1881 with a few in Dundee, now 1981 showing lots in Dundee.

deptfordmarmoset

With a Welsh surname that's so obviously Welsh that there's an Irishman with my surname playing cricket for England, I wasn't surprised that we'd mostly be in Wales in the last century, but I was surprised at how much my lot have repopulated a whole swathe of the south of England. It makes me wonder whether we've just drifted back to where we originally came from.

RedJohn

Interesting.

Mostly around Dundee in 1881.
Still focussed in North/East Scotland in 1981.

My Grandfather's name is much more traditionally Scottish yet is, and was, much more spread over the UK.

RonB

WYorks for me as expected, though quite a few of us ended up in Western Aus & NZ, maybe some of their own freewill

Wifey's folks, a seafaring bunch, were split between Cleveland and Cornwall, though started out in Germany, as indicated by the 1881 stats. Interesting site.

EKE_38BPM

The owners of my ancestors were probably Scottish.
Kinda makes the possible break-up of the United Kingdom seem a bit minor in comparison to millions of people being enslaved over hundreds of years.

Ah well, I've just found out that my new favourite drink is Buckfast!

cornerblock

johnboy183 wrote:

apparently i should be living in the south-east. so glad i'm not

Yeah I am too. It's a nice area and we'd like to keep it that way.

tlw1

North west with no real change

pneumatic

EKE_38BPM wrote:

The owners of my ancestors were probably Scottish.
Kinda makes the possible break-up of the United Kingdom seem a bit minor in comparison to millions of people being enslaved over hundreds of years.

Ah well, I've just found out that my new favourite drink is Buckfast!

That's a sobering thought (apart from the Buckfast ); thanks for the post. Reminds me how much identity matters and how it can be taken away. There was an item on radio yesterday about North Africans who moved to Israel when it was set up as a state. They've only just been permitted to officially "choose" their own birthday. Prior to that, their dates of birth were listed as 00/00/00, because they came from a place and a time where records, if they ever existed at all, had been destroyed.

tebbit

Ah well a big move for us, the North East to the North West.

freddiegrubb

:oops: I must be odd, I couldn't care less about my ancestors I find I have enough trouble coming to terms with my own identity & existence.

FocusZing

freddiegrubb wrote:

:oops: I must be odd, I couldn't care less about my ancestors I find I have enough trouble coming to terms with my own identity & existence.

You wouldn't say that if you found out your ancestors were likely Welsh :evil:

Stone Glider

I was told that mine was a Cornish name, fair enough there was and is a concentration there; also York and Lincolnshire? The concentrations have remained but we seem a bit more spread out now. Interesting site, as others have remarked.