very buszy still!
BBC has a link today to this resource at UCL: Surname Profiler
It allows you to find out the geographical distribution and the like of your name, both now (1998) and in 1881. Very interesting, although thanks to the BBC the site has now got overloaded with enquries, so you'll have to be persistent.
Mine's a solidly Scottish name anyway - in 1881 almost all of them were in Fife or Lothian, and most of them are still up here today (except for my uncle's colonisation attempt in Yorkshire).
very buszy still!
Mine is currently only in the South East of England, stretching up into the Midlands, but somehow avoiding Surrey, in 1881 we were all in London, except for a small smattering in East Anglia.
If you keep hitting the back button and trying again, you get in after about 2 or 3 attempts quite easily.
I have done a bit of leafleting recently, and there are a lot of people called Friedland who live around here.
Mine is mainly found in the northern most parts of Scotland and just south of where I live - although my area and most of Scotland is red though a fairly common surname up here - not mainly down south.
In the 1800s one it was the East coast from Dundee down to Newcastle that my name was most common in. Very, very interesting... might want to look into a family tree for my surname now.
Originally Posted by under par
worked Ok at 5 O clock this mouring
I'm not very good at Geography, but I looked at another map, I think this is right:
In 1881 we were mostly found in the West of England, the South East; I think Brighton and Bath.
In 1998 it was again most of the West of England, also some down near Brighton, Cardiff, Birmingham and Northumbria.
Few Scots though, but then again it is a very English name.
Wonder if you can guess what my surname is
I think it's especially common around the Dagenham area, right?Originally Posted by Jazz_Shoes (Ash)
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Oh great another witty remark that leaves me clueless
I think what Ducasi is trying to say is that your Geography really is crapOriginally Posted by Jazz_Shoes (Ash)
Oh, ok, but I did check another map before I posted that, I must have got mixed up if that is wrong hahaOriginally Posted by WittyBird
Edit: just read ducasi's post. Haha i'm not wrong!
Last edited by Jazz_Shoes (Ash); 19th-January-2006 at 06:15 PM.
Apparently, most of my namesakes live in Argyllshire! Maybe it's a sign...
Nope, not at all, just giving clues to what Ash's surname is, that's all...Originally Posted by WittyBird
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Not surprisingly... There were no results found for your selection
Originally Posted by Tessalicious
My surname can also be found mostly around Argyllshire ansd also around Liverpool, which is not surprising as it is an Irish surname.
I'm "imported from abroad".
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Didn't get elected tho', did you???Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo
Who'd vote for a donkey?Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov
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Could it be Rhubarb?Originally Posted by ducasi
So appropriate for a student drama person I thought.
Also I did a search asking "What's Dagenham famous for?" and one of the hits was:
Old Dagenham Village, A Brief History. Barking and Dagenham.
Dagenham became particularly famous for its rhubarb crop. Modern transport arrived in Dagenham in the form of railways. In 1885 a new railway station opened ...
http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/ ... /dag-village/dvil-brief-history.html
Otherwise wasn't there a Dagenham pipe band?
Is it Ash Rhubarb or Ash Pipe-Band? This could be fun!
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