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Hi All,
Found this interesting:
http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php
THIS DATABASE is an extract of an Office of National Statistics database, and contains a list of surnames in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Mann in September 2002. The list contains almost 270,000 surnames, shared by 54.4 million people. The entire database contains over a million surnames, shared by 55.9 million people, but names shared by fewer that five people have been excluded from this list. The database was established in 1998, and births are continually added, but the 1.5 million deaths between 1998 and 2002 have not been weeded from the system. The database is also said to include a level of duplicate entries and misspelt surnames, as well as people currently living abroad and temporary visitors to England and Wales. However, experience suggests that multiplying the result for your surname by 0.93 will give a good idea of the living population for your surname, and multiplying by 3.5 will give the population since the start of parish registers in the 16th century.
These are the figures I obtained for the surname and it's variants:
Blackstone, 356 = rank of 14,553
Blackston, 64 = 43,667
Blackton, 26 = 76,659
Blackiston, 54 = 48,432
Blakeston, 378 = 13,984
Blakestone, 22 = 85,116
Blakeson, 23 = 82,763
Blakiston, 69 = 41,749
Blaxton = 0
Total = 992 multiplied by 0.93 = 923
Multiplied by 3.5 = 3229
I've used the 3.5 as listed above but think, from my database, that this is a gross underestimation. I would, at least, double that figure.(These figures are for the UK only)
In my database I have one couple who married in 1810 who have approximately 280 descendents who inherited their surname. I wonder how many of the above share a common ancestor. The DNA study to-date indicates about 3 genetic family groups. I would speculate that unltimately this will amount to 5 or 6 progenitors.
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