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English Counties

Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H. "Surnames in Bedfordshire : Parts 1-VII." Bedfordshire Magazine (Winter 1978): 16, 296-97: 16, 342-47; 17, 35-37 ; 17, 73-79; 17, 108,113-17; 17, 165-70; 17, 250-255; 17, 297-302.

Buckinghamshire

Tompkins,Matthew   Emerging pays and peasant migration in Buckinghamshire c1332-1522: the evidence from surnames unpublished MA Dissertation, University of Leicester, 2001

Cambridgeshire

Gould, Brian M. Rupert Brooke and Cambridge surnames : a Centenary Revelation. Cambridge: [s.n.], 1987.
Notes: 4 pages

Watson, R. "A study of surname distribution in a group of Cambridgeshire parishes, 1538-1840." Local Population Studies, no. 15(1975): 23-32.

Cornwall

Bannister, John. "Cornish names." In: The Royal Polytechnic Society Society 37th Annual Report, 57-65. 1869.

________. A glossary of Cornish names, ancient and modern, local, family, personal, & 20,000 Celtic and Other Names, Now or Formerly in Use in Cornwall With Derivations and Significations . London : Edinburgh: Williams & Nargate , 1871.
Abstract: Smith: "Local, family and personal names, ancient and modern. Good"

Charnock, Richard Stephen. Patronymica Cornu-Britannica : or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames . London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1870.
Note: 160 pages
Abstract: Smith:"Cornish surnames, with derivations and meaninigs-Good"

Deacon, B. The Cornish family: the roots of our future  Fowey: Cornwall Editions, 2004
Note: Chapter 2, pp56-93 and 235-37 on Cornish surnames

Dexter, Thomas Francis George. Cornish names : an attempt to explain over 1600 Cornish names. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1926.
Notes: 90 pages. Later reprinted by Oakmagic Publications, 2001 (Isbn 1901163326)
Comment: Smith: "General-Good"

Padel, O. J. "Cornish Surnames in 1327." Nomina, no. 9 (1985): 81-87.
Abstract: Lawson1: "an analysis of surnames of the 1327 Lay Subsidy Roll concludes that an "overwhelming majority of people with place-name surnames bore names which were those of farms in the parishes were they were living.""

" A Handbook of Cornish Surnames, 73 pages. George Pawley White. 2nd. Camborne: G.P. White, 1981.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Following an introduction to Cornish names, there is a listing of about 800 items. Among the names included are Moyle ("bald"), Rouse ("heath"), and Tremayne ("homestead of stones"). Items show origin, meaning and where found."

Sandercock, Graham ‘The Cornish Language’ Cornwall FHSJ (June 2002)
Note: derivations and frequencies of many Cornish surnames

Cumberland

Jones, Gwilym Peredur. "Continuity and change in surnames in four northern parishes." Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society Transactions, no. 73(1973): 143-47.
Abstract: Lawson2: "4 parishes were examined for population stability by surname of parish registers in 3 periods in the 18th century..the results suggested a considerable inflow/outflow of population"

Derbyshire

Giller, Anne. "The surnames of Scarsdale Hundred." University of Sheffield, Division of Adult Continuing Education, 2001.
Note: in 2 vols

Palmer, John. 8000 Derbyshire names From Wirksworth parish, 1608-1837 : surnames, firstnames, placenames, variants, sources, gaps, occupations. Broadstone: J. Palmer, 1998.
Notes: 44 p.

Ullathorne, Graham. "The surnames of the High Peak hundred of Derbyshire : a study of the distribution of surnames of the High Peak hundred of Derbyshire from the fourteenth century to the present day, with special emphasis on the medieval and early modern period." University of Sheffield Institute of Lifelong Learning Phd., 2002.
Notes: in 2 vols

Whykes, J. M. "The development in Derbyshire of surnames derived From place-Names, 1086-1485." University of Nottingham, 1971-1972.
Notes: M.Phil

Devon

Bonaparte, L. L. "Old Devonshire names." The Academy 13(April 1878): 371.
Comment: Smith: "Refers to King’s letter and suggests an explanation. Short-Poor"

Brown, Mike   The gazetteer of Dartmoor names Newton Abbot : Forest Publishing, 1995.

64p. Isbn- 0951527479
Note: Personal names and place names

Camsell, Margaret. "Devon locative names in the fourteenth century." Nomina , no. 10(1986): 137-47.

Carbonell, Barabara. "Personal names in Devon." Word-Lore 3(February 1928): 4-6.
Abstract: Smith: "General on Christian names and surnames in Devon. Interesting-Good"

Ewen, Cecil L’Estrange. Early surnames of Devonshire from the Exchequer Subsidy Roll, 1332. Paignton, Devon: C.L. Ewen, 1947.
Note: 35 pages

Postles, David. The surnames of Devon. Oxford: Leopards’ Head, 1995.
Note: English surnames series. Vol 6
Reviewed in Nomina 24 (2001)

Spiegelhalter, Cecil. "Surnames of Devon." Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association 68(1936): 397-410.
Comment: Smith: "Interesting-Good"

________. "Surnames of Devon. II. The Saxon Element." Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association 69(1937): 471-77.
Comment: Smith: "Interesting-Good"

________. "Surnames of Devon. III. Occupative Names : Old Trades and Crafts." Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association 70(1938): 277-96.
Abstract: Smith: "Interesting-Good"

________. "Surnames of Devon. IV. Locative Surnames." Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association 71(1939): 283-87.
Comment: Smith "Good"

________. "Surnames of Devon : V, Descriptive Names : Nicknames." Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. Report and Transactions , no. 72(1940): 273-81.

________. "Surnames of Devon : VI, French Placenames and Devon Family Names." Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art. Report and Transactions , no. 79(1947): 197-201.

Stoate,T.L. "Single family surnames in Devon" Devon Historian 6 (1973), 13-16.

Dorset

Dean, Colin ‘Some Dorset surnames’ Somerset and Dorset FHS 29 no 1 (Feb 2004)
Note: Guppy’s 1890 names peculiar to Dorset

Elwes, G. R. "Dorset Surnames." Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 19(1898): 184-201.
Notes: Reprinted, Dorchester, 1898, 16p.
Comment: Smith: "Interesting. Good"

Essex

Clark, Andrew. ‘English surnames in Essex, A.D. 1400’. Essex Review, 13 (1904), 222-5.

Reaney, P.H. "Onomasticon Essexiense: a proposal for the systematic collection of the personal names and surnames of Essex. "Essex Review, 61 (1952), 133-42, 202-15.

Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael. "Patronymics in Essex." The Athenaeum , no. 3850 (August 1901): 191-92.
Comment: Smith: "Chiefly lists of names arranged in classes, as animals, etc. -Poor"

Isle of Wight

Brendler, Silvio (comp.) Index of the Vectian taxpayers in the Poll Tax returns for 1379 with two appendices
Baar, Hamburg 2000 Isbn 3-935536-00-3
Note: A5 booklet 64 pages: available from IOW Family History Society
Abstract: Several recognised ‘island’ names, such as, Burt, Caus (Caws), Cheverdon (Cheverton), Holbrok (Holbrook), Mew and Urry are featured.

Brendler, Silvio. "On the study of Isle of Wight surnames. " in: Beiträge Zur Geschichte der Englischen und Chinesischen anthroponomastik : Contributions to the history of English and Chinese
anthroponomastics
, 40-49. (Beiträge Zur Lexikographie Und Namenforschung ; Bd. 1). Hamburg: Baar, 2001. Isbn 3-935536-01-1

Brendler, Silvio. "On the study of Isle of Wight surnames: a retrospective source" Journal of the Isle of Wight Family History Society 63 (2001) pp 20-27
Note: an examination of original printed sources, which discuss Island surnames – from Oglander onwards

Brendler, Silvio. "On the study of Isle of Wight surnames: a retrospective" Journal of the Isle of Wight Family History Society 69 (May 2003)
Note: a comment on the surnames borne by the monks of Quarr Abbey

Kent

Clark, Cecily. "Some early Canterbury surnames." English Studies 57(1976): 294-309.
Abstract: Lawson1: "gives background on about 75 surnames. Some are occupational, such as Feiner (hay-dealer) and Wolfmongere (wool-merchant); others are patronymic such as Munin from Simon, Colle from Nicholas. 85+ refs."

Geo. "Surnames in Gravesend ." In: The Kentish Notebook, 77-85. Editor George Owen HowellVol. 1. Gravesend, 1891.
Comment: Smith: "Chiefly a list with comments. Interesting-Fair"

Howell, G. O. The humour of Gravesend surnames. Gravesend: 1889.
Notes: 12 pages
Comment: Smith: "Fair"/p>

Mills, H. L. The family names of the Weald of Kent, particularly Smarden. Ashford: 1901.
Comment: Smith: "particular reference to odd names – Fair"

Lancashire

Fishwick, Henry. "The distribution of surnames in Lancashire in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Chesire 17, new series(1902): 131-38.
Comment: Smith: "Good"

________. "Rochdale surnames." Transactions of the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society (1891).
Comment: Smith: "Fair"

Holding, David ,What’s in a name? : an introduction to Lancashire parish registers and historical surnames Adlington,Lancashire : D H Publications, 1995
The text of a lecture given to the Friends of Smithills Hall,Bolton on 23rd September 1995

Insley, John. "Lancashire surnames, a review of Richard Mackinley’s ‘The Surnames of Lancashire’." Nomina 6 (1982): 93-98.

Leech, E. Bosdin. "Surnames in Lancashire." Transactions of the Lancashire and Chesire Antiquarian Society 58(1945): 177-204.
Comment: Smith: "Good"

March, Henry Colley. East Lancashire nomenclature and Rochdale names. London: 1880.

Mckinley, Richard. "Research into Lancashire surnames." Genealogists’ Magazine 19, no. 11(September 1979): 393-95.

________. The surnames of Lancashire. London: Leopard’s Head, 1981.
Notes: English surnames series. Vol 4
Abstract: Lawson1: "major sections include: development of hereditary names, surnames derived from location..,topography..,occupation..,relationship..,personal names and nicknames. Also included are sections on the Salford Hundred and Rochdale parish"

Redmonds, George. "Lancashire surnames in Yorkshire." Genealogists’ Magazine 18, no. 1 (1975).

Walkden Roy  ‘Notes towards a study of some south Lancashire surnames’ Manchester Genealogist  39 no 1 (Feb 2003)
Abstract: framework and method to study origin/distribution

Leicestershire

Giggs, J. A. "Surname geography: a study of the Giggs family Name 1450-1989." East Midland Geographer, no. 17 (1994): 58-78.

Hoskins, W. G. Leicestershire yeoman families and their pedigrees.Leicester Research Services, 1974.
Notes: Reprinted by Heart of Albion Press
Abstract: A reprint, authorised by this well-known author, of an early paper describing the Scandinavian, Norman and Saxon origins of many common local surnames, including Randolf/Randell, Armston, Lewin, Steyn,
Martin, Pawley, Freer/Frear, Horton, Paget/Pachet, Pochin, Gee/Joy, Forryan/Fearon/Farren and Nutt/Knott.

Howell, C.  Land, family and inheritance in transition :
Kibworth Harcourt 1280-1700

Abstract: "includes analyses of local surname sets in this Leicestershire estate in order to establish the stability or transience of the local population"

Postles, David. "At Sorenson’s request : the formation and development of patronyms and metronyms in late medieval Leicestershire and Rutland." Nomina, no. 17 (1994): 55-70.

________ ‘The pattern of migration in a Midlands county: Leics c.1270-1350’, Continuity and Change  7 (1992), 139-62

________ ‘Surnames and the composition of local populations: Rutland, 13th to 17th centuries’, East Midlands Geographer  16 (1993), 27-38

________. Surnames of Leicestershire and Rutland. Leopard Head’s Press, 1999.
Notes: English Surnames Series

Lincolnshire

Cameron, K.  ‘Bynames of location in Lincolnshire subsidy rolls’   Nottingham Medieval Studies 32 (1988)156-164

Johnson, Walter. "Lincolnshire ethnology". Lincolnshire Historian, 1:2 (1948), 62-8

Kristensson, Gillis. Studies on the early 14th-Century population of Lindsey (Lincolnshire) . Lund: LiberLäromedel/Gleerup, 1977.

Streatfield, George Sidney. "Personal names in Lincolnshire." In his: Lincolnshire and the Danes, 298-313 [Appendix III]. 386 pages. London: K. Paul, Trench & co, 1884.
Abstract: Smith: "Chiefly lists of surnames and ‘ancient names’ with
their derivations-Good"

London

Ekwall, Eilert. "Some cases of initial variation in medieval London surnames." Moderna Sprak , no. 51(1957): 21-27.
Abstract: Lawson1: "explanation of how names with an initial H such as Horsham were modified in spoken English. Thus, Horsham–ofHorsham–Forsham. Other names were similarly changed as Heston to Feston. Loss of initial N was observed in some names as, Neceton to Eketon. Initial T has also been lost as Trippelawe to Riplawe. 6 refs."

________. "Some early London bynames and surnames." English Studies , no. 46(1965): 113-18.
Abstract: Lawson1: "gives derivations of 20 names such as Singemasse ("singer of masses"), Musege ("mouse-eyed person"), and Wombestrong ("one with a strong worm" i.e. a good appetite). 13 refs."

________. Variation in surnames in medieval London. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1945.

Light, John. "Foundling names: a survey of surnames given to foundlings
in a selection of London parishes in the years 1740-50." Genealogists’ Magazine, 21 (1983), 112-17.

Waterman, Stanley and Kosmin, Barry A. ‘Mapping an unenumerated ethnic population: Jews in London’ Ethnic and Racial Studies’   9:4 (Oct 1986), 484-501.

Norfolk

Clark, Cecily. "The early personal names of King’s Lynn : an essay in socio-cultural history. Part II -By-names." Nomina 7(1983): 65-89.
Notes: reprinted in ‘Words, Names and History’
Abstract: An analysis of by-names in King’s Lynn sources – predominantly the bede-roll of the Hospital of St Mary Magdelene at Gaywood c. 1300

McKinley, Richard." Norfolk and Suffolk surnames in the Middle Ages, English Surnames Series, Vol 2. London: Phillimore, 1975.

Notes: Reviewed in ‘Nomina’ 1
Abstract: Lawson1: "comprehensive desription and analysis of surnames in Esat Anglia. Topics include surnames derived from occupation, location, personal names, and the influence of social class on surnames"

______ Norfolk surnames in the sixteenth century. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1969.
Abstract: Lawson1: " analyses of subsidy rolls, military surveys, and other records yielded a list of 18,500 surnames.
These may be classified as:
1) locative, 17%
2) topographical 11%
3) patronomic or metronymic, 26%
4) other relationships, 0.5%
5) occupational, 19%
6) based on physical characteristics, 3%; and
7) others, 23.5%. Approx 300 specific names are mentioned"

Northumberland

Fraser, C.  Tynedale surnames   Tyne and Tweed (49) 1994-5 pp39-53

Oxfordshire

McKinley, Richard. The surnames of Oxfordshire. English Surnames Series, Vol 3. Oxford: Leopard’s Head, 1977.
Notes: Reviewed in ‘Nomina’ 3 (1979)
Abstract: Lawson1: "comprehensive description and analysis of surnames in this region derived from location, occupatio, first names and nicknames. There are also chapters on names of married women and bondsmen."

Postles, David   ‘Nomina Villanorum et Burgensium’: Oxfordshire Bynames before c. 1250′ Oxoniensia LIV (1989)

Rutland

Postles, David. "Surnames and the composition of local Populations: Rutland, 13th to 17th Centuries." East Midland Geographer 16, no. 2 (1993): 27-38.
Abstract: Surnames, which can be studied in a quantitative way, may stand as an indicator of social endogamy and exogamy. This particular methodology is applied here to reflect changes in one particular county, Rutland

________. Surnames of Leicestershire and Rutland. Leopard Head’s Press, 1999.
Note: English Surnames Series

Shropshire

Turner, E. A. "The Welsh element in Shropshire surnames. " Transactions of the Caradoc & Severn Valley Field Club [Shropshire] 1947-1950, no. 13(1956): 89-96.

Somerset

Dean, Colin ‘Some Somerset surnames’ Somerset and Dorset FHS 29 no 2 (May 2004)
Note: Guppy’s 1890 names peculiar to Somerset

Bartelot, R. Grosvenor. "Some Somerset surnames. " Somerset Archaelogical and Natural History Society, Proceedings of the Bath & District Branch , no. Part 6, series viii(1944): 291-98.
Comment: Smith: "Fair"

Baker, Jane. ‘Irish in Bristol : 1861 and 1871’. Irish Family History, 6 (1990), 53-60.
Notes: Names taken from the mid-Victorian census returns

Staffordshire

Chandler, P. "Black Country surnames." Blackcountryman 22, no. 4 (1989): 43-47.
Abstract: Lawson3

________. "Some Black Country surnames : II a Survey of Today’s Names." Blackcountryman 23, no. 1 (1990): 51-56.
Abstract: Lawson3

________. "Some Black Country surnames : III — Our Window on the Past." Blackcountryman 23, no. 2 (1990): 41-45.
Abstract: Lawson3

Hey, David. "The distinctive names of Staffordshire." Staffordshire Studies 10(1998).
Notes: Originally delivered as the Earl Lecture at the University of Keele, Nov 1997

Paffard, Michael. "North Staffordshire names." Staffordshire Studies 2(1989).

Tooth, Ernest Edgar. Distinctive surnames of North Staffordshire Vol 2- Surnames Derived From Occupations. Leek: Churnet Valley Books, 2002.

Tooth, Ernest Edgar. Distinctive surnames of North Staffordshire Vol 3. Leek: Churnet Valley Books, 2004. Isbn:1904546110

________. "Local dialect and its relevance to the study of place-names and surnames in Staffordshire." Staffordshire Studies 9(1997).

________. Surnames of North Staffordshire – Volume 1. Leek: Churnet Valley Books, 2000.
Notes: 192pp

________. "The survival of Scandinavian personal names in Staffordshire names." Staffordshire Studies 12(2000).

Webster, Warwick. "Migration trends in Staffordshire from the late thirteenth century to the early fourteenth century (1250-1350), As Evidenced by Place-Name Surnames." University Of Birmingham, 1984.

Suffolk

"Norfolk and Suffolk surnames in the Middle Ages, Richard Mckinley. English Surnames Series, Vol 2. London: Phillimore, 1975.
Notes: Reviewed in ‘Nomina’ 1
Abstract: Lawson1: "comprehensive desription and analysis of surnames in East Anglia. Topics include surnames derived from occupation, location, personal names, and the influence of social class on surnames"

Sussex

Abercrombie, Nigel. Sussex Catholic surnames 1558-1829. Sussex Genealogical Centre Occasional Papers : No.5. Brighton: Sussex Genealogical Centre, 1980.

Leeson, Frank. "The development of surnames -1 : Occupational surnames in West Sussex." Genealogists’ Magazine 16, no. 8(December 1970): 404-25.

________. "The development of surnames -2 : Locative surnames in West Sussex." Genealogists’ Magazine 16, no. 10(June 1971): 536-46.

Mckinley, Richard. The surnames of Sussex. English Surnames Series, Vol 5. Oxford: Leopard’s Head, 1988.
Notes: reviewed in Nomina 14 (1990-91)

Parish, William Douglas. A Dictionary of the Sussex dialect and collection of provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex. Boxhill: Gardners, 1967.
Notes: Originally published Lewes: Farncombe, 1875
Abstract: Lawson1: "pp 157-160 give a listing of surnames derived from Anglo-Saxon words"

Warwickshire

Burman, John. "Family names of the Forest of Arden." In his: Warwickshire People and Places, 87-112. Birmingham: Cornish, 1936.
Abstract: Smith: "A list of Warwickshire surnames with meanings; some derivations not accurate -Fair"

Hjerstedt, Ingrid   Middle English nicknames in the lay subsidy rolls for Warwickshire Uppsala, 1987

Westmorland

Jones, Gwilym Peredur. "Continuity and change in surnames in four northern parishes." Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society Transactions , no. 73(1973): 143-47.
Abstract: Lawson2: "4 parishes were examined for population stability by surname of parish registers in 3 periods in the 18th century..the results suggested a considerable inflow/outflow of population"

Lowis, David   Surnames of North Westmorland Appleby-in-Westmorland, 2000
Notes: 92 page donation held in SoG Library

Ullathorne, Graham. The history of a Westmorland name [Ullathorne]. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, 1992.
Note: Unpublished M.A. thesis

Worcestershire

Eld, F. J. ‘Surnames and christian names in Worcestershire : English Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Worcester, 1 Edward 1’. Worcestershire Historical Society, edited for, 1895.
Notes: pages xii-xiii et passim
Abstract: Smith: "Early Worcestershire names, giving many examples"

Greatrex, Joan. ‘The local origins of the monks of Worcester cathedral priory’. Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 3rd ser., 16 (1998),143-53.

Yorkshire

Dyson, Taylor. Place names and surnames : their origin and meaning : with special reference to the West Riding of Yorkshire. Huddersfield: Alfred Jubb and Son, 1944.
Note: 216 pages
Comment: Smith: "Fair"

The origins of one hundred Sheffield surnames, Editor David Hey. Sheffield: The Division of Adult Continuing Education,The University of Sheffield, 1992.
Notes: A publication of the Names Project Team at the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language and the Division of Adult Continuing Education The University of Sheffield

Hey, David Yorkshire Surnames and the Hearth Tax Returns of 1672-73 by David Hey and George Redmonds. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 2002 (Borthwick Papers, 2002, no. 102)

Johnston, R. J. "Resistance to Migration and the Mover/Stayer Dichotomy : Aspects of Kinship and Population Stability in an English Rural Area." Geografiska Annaler 53(1971): 16-27.
Abstract: Lawson2: "studies Nidderdale, and concludes that people with more common surnames there are less likely to move. 22 common surname groups in 21 districts were studied in the 1951-1961 period"

Lawson-Tancred, Thomas. "Old Parish Surnames at Aldborough." The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 31, no. 121(1932): 65-73.
Abstract: Smith: "Chiefly a list, but interesting. Fair."

Longley, P., Webber, R. and Lloyd,D. ‘The quantitative analysis of family names : historic migration and the present day neighbourhood structure of Middlesbrough, United Kingdom”
Notes: Spatial Literacy Paper :1 – available Online

Mckinley, Richard. "The Distribution of Surnames Derived From the Names of Some Yorkshire Towns." IN: Tribute to an Antiquary : Essays Presented to Marc Fitch by Some of His Friends, Frederick and Stephens Roy Emmison. London: Leopard Head’s Press.

Redmonds, George. "The Development of West Riding Surnames From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries." University of Leicester, 1969.
Notes: Phd

________. "Lancashire Surnames in Yorkshire." Genealogists’ Magazine 18, no. 1 (1975).

________. "Lancashire Surnames in Yorkshire [the Distribution and Development of Aspinall and Ridehalgh in the West Riding]." Genealogists’ Magazine 18, no. 1(March 1975): 13-18.

________. "Noms D’Origine Francaise Dans Le Yorkshire." Vie Et Langage, no. 235 (1971).

________. "The Origins of Yorkshire "Royd" Surnames." Old West Riding 1, no. 1 (1981).

________. "Personal Names and Surnames in Some West Yorkshire ‘Royds’." Nomina , no. 9(1985): 73-80.
Abstract: Lawson1: " discussion and comment on the suffix -royd which arose in the 13th century (a royd refers to land that was cleared from the forest). However, the name element declined after 1350 when land-cearing also declined."

________. "Problems in the Identification of Some Yorkshire Filial Names." Genealogists’ Magazine 17, no. 4(December 1972): 205-12.

________. "Surname Heredity in Yorkshire." Local Historian 10, no. 4(November 1972): 171-77.

________. "Surnames and Settlement." Old West Riding , no. 4(1985): 7-10.

________. Surnames Around Huddersfield : Their Origins, History & Distribution. Huddersfield: Huddersfield Examiner, 1975.

________. Yorkshire Surnames -1- Bradford and District. Lepton, Huddersfield: G.R. Books, 1990.

________. Yorkshire Surnames -2- Huddersfield and District. Lepton, Huddersfield: G.R.Books, 1992.

________. Yorkshire Surnames -3- Halifax and District.2002.

________. Yorkshire West Riding . (London): Phillimore, 1973.
Notes: English surnames series. Vol.1
Abstract: Lawson1: "a study of 4 categories of surname developed from nicknames, relationship, occupation and office, and geographical from the areas of Bradford, Leeds, York and Sheffield. Materials from 1300 to 1969 are used to classify and identify patterns of English surnames. Approx 3400 surnames in index"

Senior, A. "Local Place-Names and Surnames." Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society (February 1951): 15-35.

Turner, Maurice. "Distribution and Persistence of Surnames in a Yorkshire Dale 1500-1700." Local Population Studies 54 (1995): 28-39.

________, editor. Kith and Kin: Nidderdale Families 1500-1750. Ripon: Summerbridge Tutorial Group, 1995.
Notes: from John Hedben,Aldergarth,Galphay,Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 3NJ £7.50 (+85pp p&p)

Webber,Richard  Neighbourhood segregation and social mobility among the descendants of Middlesbrough’s 19th century Celtic immigrants

University College London, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analaysis, 2004
link to CASA Working Paper, 88

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