Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Most common surnames in the Forest https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/ Connecting Forest of Dean Researchers World-Wide en Most common surnames in the Forest (reply) The photograph of your great-grandparents, James & Rebecca Meek, and family has Thomas at the centre of the back row - he is my maternal grandfather. As far as I can remember the names of some of the other children in the photo are:
Hubert, Alice, Frank, Mabel.
I assume that your mother was Mary, the daughter of Alice.

Best wishes,

gerrym

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=9038 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=9038 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:06:59 +0000 Generalgerrym Most common surnames in the Forest (reply) I've just played with the National Trust Names site - great fun!

The Frowen's (maternal grandmothers family) are all in the Forest/Monmouthshire in the 1800's but then the name moves all over the place, but mostly in South Wales which is where my line ended up.

I also tried Foulkes, which is my maternal grandfathers family and they seem to have just moved further into North Wales and are mostly on Anglesey.

I'm off to play more with my Husbands family names now - thanks for the link!

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8076 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8076 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:21:34 +0000 GeneralPhilippa Most common surnames in the Forest (reply) It can be interesting to look up some of the less common names on the site:
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

This shows the geographical distribution of surnames taken from the 1881 and 1998 censuses.
A name of particular interest to me is "Meek". This name which is six times more common in Gloucestershire than the national average and the top postal town in the UK is Drybrook, which makes it a good Forest name from my perspective.

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8003 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8003 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:17:18 +0000 Generalcmfenton Top 5 taken from Parish Records Baptisms (reply) this area is on the English/Welsh border, so it should not be a surprise to find a lot of "cross border" movement :-)

This was especially true for the Coal and Iron workers.

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7977 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7977 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:09:11 +0000 Generalslowhands Top 5 taken from Parish Records Baptisms (reply) So they're welsh then?

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7943 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7943 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:27:55 +0000 GeneralEssex_Lad Top 5 taken from Parish Records Baptisms (reply) Subject to alteration if I have missed a surname.

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

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7862 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7862 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:09:22 +0000 Generaladmin Most common surnames in the Forest (reply) in no particular order :-
JONES
DAVIS / DAVIES
THOMAS
MORGAN
WILLIAMS
SMITH

then

WATKINS
GRIFFITHS
EDWARDS
LEWIS
JAMES
JENKINS
MEEK
HALE / HAILE
BEACH
NELMS / NELMES
BEARD
YEMM
BALDWIN
BAILEY
PHILLIPS
KEAR
EVANS
HAWKINS
HILL
BRAIN
GRINDLE
TAYLOR
PHELPS
MATTHEWS
ADAMS
COLE / COAL
COOPER
POWELL
ROBERTS
VAUGHAN
MARFELL
KNIGHT
WILCE
TRIGG
STERRY
TURLEY
TINGLE
VIRGO
WILDEN / WALDEN

to be continued !

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7861 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7861 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:28:45 +0000 Generalslowhands Most common surnames in the Forest During the 19th century I'm pretty sure JONES would head the list but
which surnames would come after that one?

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7860 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7860 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:07:06 +0000 Generaladmin