I came across a curious evidence of the popularity of the Chartist 'heroes' when transcribing for FreeBMD. From1840, through to about 1844, a remarkable number of families in many parts of England and Wales named their children either after John FROST or Fergus (Feargus) O'Connor, or both. Simply search the relevant years in FreeBMD, without surnames, for forenames * Frost or * O'Connor. The latter won't find all the relevant entries as spelling varied. * O'Conn* finds more. Fergus O'Connor actually seems to have been more popular, and his popularity more enduring, than John Frost. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ Jeff