Thursday, 28 December 2006

Surname Maping

The principle object is to try and establish a first Srosbree family for our own family tree.
an examination of the 1881 census reveals a list of 75 people with the surname Shrosbree, this includes spelling and transcription errors .
There are other similar but distinctly different names .A list compiled of the Shrosbree variants from the soundex codes. surnames from the I.G.I Databases of births ,marriages and deaths , plus a further list from from the B.M.D archives helps to narrow down the name options to but a few . By looking at the birth places, dates and locations it is possible to begin to make some sort of sense out of the chaos, and show something of the name development and the regions from where they began.
The names have been grouped together by location and variation in order to merge the obvious errors and to establish a list of specific surnames. This now gives us list of the following variants Shrowbridge,Shrowsbridge,Shroseberry,Shrowsberry,Shrowsburry,Shrosbery,Shrousberry and Shrobreye.
We also have the variants of Shrewsbury. and although the name sounds the same there is the distinction between them, being spelt with a leading E as opposed to an O. it is an important difference, as we shall see.


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