You missed out 1A - BRAMHALL 420,035. Don't forget the Welsh only got their names because they supported Lancashire in the so-called "Roses" War. Same as Ken DODD [Knotty Ash] and Frankie HOWERD [Castle Howerd]. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Welsh Surnames > > > > > > Top 50 English/Welsh Names > > Ever wondered if your ancestors' names were popular in early Victorian > Britain 150 years ago? > Mark Antony Lever's 'A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom' > was published > by John Russell Smith, London, in 1860. > > In Lever's book he quotes the number of different surnames existing within > England and Wales > (i.e. excluding Scotland and Ireland) as in excess of 30,000. He then > reproduces statistics from a > report of Her Majesty's Registrar-General that depict the 50 most common > surnames in England > and Wales. The following table is derived from 9 quarterly indexes of > births, 8 of deaths and 8 > of marriages extracted from the official indexes of 1838, 1851 and 1853. The > results were > accepted as statistically correct when arranged against different indexes. > > It should be noted that the 50 names embrace approximately 18 out of every > 100 registered and > that one in 28 of the whole population in the mid-19th century would answer > to the name of Smith > Jones or Williams. > > Surname No. of Entries Surname No. of Entries > > 1 SMITH 33,557 26 HARRIS 7,042 > 2 JONES 33,941 27 CLARK 6,920 > 3 WILLIAMS 21,936 28 COOPER 6,742 > 4 TAYLOR 16,775 29 HARRISON 6,399 > 5 DAVIES 14,983 30 DAVIS 6,205 > > 6 BROWN 14,346 31 WARD 6,084 > 7 THOMAS 13,017 32 BAKER 6,013 > 8 EVANS 12,555 33 MARTIN 5,893 > 9 ROBERTS 10,617 34 MORRIS 5,888 > 10 JOHNSON 9,468 35 JAMES 5,755 > > 11 ROBINSON 9,045 36 MORGAN 5,691 > 12 WILSON 8,917 37 KING 5,661 > 13 WRIGHT 8,476 38 ALLEN 5,468 > 14 WOOD 8,238 39 CLARKE 5,309 > 15 HALL 8,188 40 COOK 5,300 > > 16 WALKER 8,088 41 MOORE 5,269 > 17 HUGHES 8,010 42 PARKER 5,230 > 18 GREEN 7,996 43 PRICE 5,219 > 19 LEWIS 7,959 44 PHILLIPS 5,124 > 20 EDWARDS 7,916 45 WATSON 4,771 > > 21 THOMPSON 7,839 46 SHAW 4,759 > 22 WHITE 7,808 47 LEE 4,731 > 23 JACKSON 7,659 48 BENNETT 4,671 > 24 TURNER 7,549 49 CARTER 4,648 > 25 HILL 7,192 50 GRIFFITHS 4,639 > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow > Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002