Re: Nfld., Devon, Surrey, CountyCork,Ireland
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Nfld., Devon, Surrey, CountyCork,Ireland
2/06/00
> Accordint to one source there are > approximately 600 Shears descendants in the > counties of Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset:
> with an addtional 250 descendants in the
> rest of the United Kingdom.
That source is me, quoted on Trevor's site, www.shears.ca.There is quite a lot of genealogy stuff there.
Since then I have obtained new and better information, viz:
There are about 6800 Shears' in the world, split up as follows:
3000 in England (about 350 of which are in Devon)
2800 in the US
500 in Canada
400 in Australia
70 in New Zealand
15 in South Africa
15 in the rest of the world (Scotland, Ireland and Wales account for
only a tiny handful)
I only e-mailed this (and much other) new info to Trevor on Friday, so it may be a few days before his site is updated.
I've also asked him to revise my mass of text on his site.What I wrote originally (in 1998) is very long and waffly.What I hope he will put up in the next few days is shorter, has more information, and corrects several errors in what I sent him originally.
Best regards,
Richard J. H. Shears
[email protected]
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Re: Nfld., Devon, Surrey, CountyCork,Ireland
Cindy Rose Renouf 8/27/11