Saddleworth Families DNA Project

Saddleworth DNA Project: Old surnames                                                                    WIP 12/9/2012

List of common names ie not all names on indicated sources.

1379 Poll Tax Return, 1545 Lay Subsidy & 1642 Protestation Return.

Figures refer to numbers in Saddleworth on the 1881 census followed by the Banwell ratio ¹  

del Schag, Shaw >700 17

Hawkyard Hawred Hauckyeard 31 140

del Sykes, Sykes        >180 15

Wryglegh Wrigley (Rigley)  >400 129*

del Platte, Platt >200 36

Brierley de Brerlay >200 46

de Lees Lees >1600 37

Buckley >800 61*

Taylor >280 2

Schofield / Scholefield >700 51*

Knight 6 0.2

Whitehead >390 24

Gartside. / Garside >300 / 70 306*/19

Radcliffe. / Ratcliffe >140 48

Kenworthy (Kennerley) >250 152*

Harrop 17 6

Winterbottom >190 82*

Bradbury >400 64*

Broadbent >300 57

Heawood / Heywood nil / 38 7

Mallalieu (Mellodrew?)  54 276*

Kershaw >200 54

Lawton >200 33*

Vinthwit (Linthwaite) nil

Tweedale 9 13

Mayall 69 88*

Saville / Seville 48/ 6 118*

Wood >500 7*

Whewall / Wheawall nil

* highest in E&W

Banwell ratio: crude totals of surnames per parish (poor law union) do not give helpful information.
Parishes are of varying sizes & some surnames, like Taylor, are very common & will predominate in
 most areas. The ratio shows how common a name is in an area compared to how common it is
 nationally.

Notice eg that Wood is a common name, (although mainly in the North) and is common in
Saddleworth. But it is disproportionately common in Saddleworth which has the highest relative
 concentration in the country.

1 Archer Surname Atlas www.archersoftware.co.uk