Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Common surnames in the Forest https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/ Connecting Forest of Dean Researchers World-Wide en Common surnames in the Forest (reply) We did a count in October 2007 when we had no where the number of Parish Records on the Web site as we do now.

Most common surnames in the Forest
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=7860

JONES (5149)
DAVIS / DAVIES (3242)
WILLIAMS (3037)
MORGAN (2917)
SMITH (2358)

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25298 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25298 Sun, 16 May 2010 08:38:28 +0000 Generaladmin The Story of Wales Surnames (JONES etc) Looking at the FOD Parish Records, there are 25,761 JONES listed, 3,105 GRIFFITHS, 5, 274 DAVIES & 12, 712 DAVIS.

The National Museum of Wales has 3 short vidoes explaining the Story of Welsh Surnames - which is very informative.

(takes a few seconds to download)


www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/video/surnames

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25297 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25297 Sun, 16 May 2010 06:48:16 +0000 Generalm p griffiths