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From: "RonKerrison" <>
Subject: Re: Yorkshire Name in Norwich 1600
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:41:15 -0000


"Norfolk surnames in the 16th Century",(by R.A.McKinley": Leicester Uni
Press), states that, in the 2 sources used, the Military Survey and the
Subsidy Returns, there were over 1000 surnames that, with a fair amount of
certainty, were derived from places from outside Norfolk, *but* there were
only 800 surnames with definite Norfolk placenames!! Apparently, Norfolk
surnames include a relatively small proportion of locative names, but
nevertheless there must have been a great deal of in-migration.
Lincs and Suffolk provided the majority of these migrants; then came
Kent and Essex in the South - and Yorkshire in the North.
Each Riding provided about another 40 definite locative surnames -
and *another* 40 which *may* have come from elsewhere, some accounted for by
the very large size of God's Country. The locatives were not especially
representative of ports or coastal areas, but there were few from the
Cleveland Hills and from the Pennines.
2 Norfolk areas seem to have attracted unusually large proportions
of "other counties locatives" - Aylsham/North Walsham area, and Great and
Little
Walsingham.
An interesting point is that some of the alien residents of Norwich
(i.e. from abroad) had English place-name surnames. For example, a definite
alien was called Duffield. Was this from Duffield (Derbys) or Duffield(East
Yorks) OR was it from a similar-sounding place in Germany or the Low
Countries?
-----which tells us not a lot about the Birdsall End, but I felt like
typing!!! Cheers, Ron Ker.

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