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From: Carol C-H <>
Subject: Re: Uncommon Surnames
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 10:05:11 -0600


Happened to have the LDS Births and Christenings CD with A's in my drive
looking for my ABLITT/ABLETTs in Essex, and checked for ARIEL - there were
only two men listed with the surname - William and Myles, both with wives
named Elizabeth, apparently in Bristol, Gloster/Gloucestershire(?)

If anyone sees mention of a CARWILE anywhere in the UK, would appreciate
knowing about it - my ancestors with that name presumably came from Wales,
so have no idea what the original spelling would have been -

Carol

At 07:34 AM 12/2/98 -0800, Alan R. Jackson wrote:
>For what it's worth, there is no ARIEL listed among the approximately
>500,000 entries in the San Diego, California, telephone directory.
>
>Alan Jackson
>
>At 03:07 AM 12/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Helen Sullivan wrete:-
>>
>>>I am just wondering what the ratio of one of my family names would be.
>>The
>>>surname is ARIEL - and I am sorry to say they are not an Essex family but
>>>from Bath/Bristol area
>>
>>Indeed Ariel is an uncommon name, in the category I described as rare. I
>>do not have figures for such rare names. My guess - repeat guess, is that
>>there are between 1 in 500,000 to 1 in a million. Of course there may be
>>regional variations which would make the name more common, or even more
>>rare than I think. I only have phone books for part of Essex and there
>>are none there. I would guess that there might be half a dozen in the
>>London phone books but I don't have them.
>

Carol
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