DB = surname-type occurs in the Domesday Book 1086
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B = surname type occurs in the Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in PRO covers 1305-1482
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L = surname-type occurs in the Warwickshire Lay Subsidy Rolls of 1332
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F = surname-type occurs in the Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1195-1509
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A = surname-type occurs in Rolls of Warwickshire and Coventry Sessions of the peace 1377-97
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C = surname-type occurs in the Constable Rental Survey 1543-46
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HT = surname-type occurs in the Hearth Tax 1662-1666, 1674-1689
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Q = surname-type occurs in the Quarter Sessions Order Books, Indictment Books and Records 1631-96
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Y = surname-type occurs in the Griff & Coton Census of 1684
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R = surname-type occurs in the Hewitt Survey 1690
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DU = surname-type occurs in Dugdale papers 17-19thC
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W = surname-type occurs in Warwickshire Apprentices & their masters 1710-60
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X = surname-type occurs in the Earl of Uxbridge Survey 1746
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Z = surname-type occurs in the Coton Census 1781
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N = surname-type occurs in the Nuneaton Diary 1810-37, 1843-45
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41 = surname-type occurs in the 1841 Census
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51 = surname-type occurs in the 1851 Census
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HS = surname-type has been published in the main Harleian Society volumes.
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Where there is no references that surname-type usually occurs in archives post-1851 such as Trade Directories or Newspapers.
Some names may also have connections with the Mediaeval coalfield history e.g. le Colyere, de Compton, Synekere, de Allesworth, Bugges etc. see VCH Warwickshire Vol. 1.
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In some cases, names may be older, but have not been recorded in the 18 essential references listed above.
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Name types such as Orton & Oughton are probably the same in the Nuneaton area, but in other parts of the country they are unrelated name types.
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Certain surname-types such as Carling are not included; the person in question was a late Victorian who rose to official prominence in Nuneaton and yet left few traces of a family history or pedigree, and like certain of his colleagues did not actually live in Nuneaton.
PRINCIPAL REFERENCE SOURCES
K. Adams: The little sister, Warwickshire Library 1979
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K. Adams: George Eliot, Warwickshire Library 1984
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C.W. Bardsley: A dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, London 1901
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R.C. Bunker: Some aspects of Population growth and structure in the Warwickshire Coalfield since 1800, M.A. Thesis Birmingham University 1952
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W. Burton: The description of Leicestershire; containing Matters of Antiquity, History, Armorye & Genealogy
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Sir Marmaduke Constable's Estate: Rental & Survey 10/10/1543 to 13/2/1544: B.Mus.Add.Ms.36909, Transl. Dr. E. Gooder & the University of Birmingham Extramural Class
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A.F. Cook: The Mystery of Teddy Kem - the Attleborough recluse, Homepiece 1988
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A.F. Cook: The story of Teddy Kem's Heaven, Attleborough, North Warwickshire Legends 1990
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A.F. Cook: Weddington, a history, Homepiece, 1992
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A.F. Cook: Historical and Geographical notes on the Bramcote area, Homepiece, 1993
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A.F. Cook: The Kem Dynasty: the Hanoverian remnants in the Hinckley-Nuneaton area. Hinckley Historian Vol 32. Autumn 1993
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A.F. Cook: Nuneaton Millennium Project. Vol. 1, Millennial History of Nuneaton, 2000
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A.F. Cook: in - New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to be fully published 2004 biographical entries on Humphrey Adderley, Henry Beighton, Edward Kem Jarvis and Joseph 'Teddy' Kem
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A.B. Cottle: The Penguin Dictionary of surnames, Penguin 1978
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D. Dodds: George Eliot Country, Nuneaton
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W. Dugdale: The Antiquities of Warwickshire
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W. Dugdale: Monasticon Anglicanum London 1817-30
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E. Ekwall: Studies on the Genitive of Groups in English, Lund 1943
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O. von Feilitzen: Notes on Old English Bynames, Namn och Bygd 27, 1939
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O. von Feilitzen: Some old English Uncompounded Personal Names and Bynames, Studia, Neophilologica, 40, 1968
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G. Fransson: Middle English Surnames of Occupation, 1100-1350, Lund 1935
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E.C. Grant: The spatial development of the Warwickshire Coalfield, Ph.D. Birmingham University
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H.B. Guppy: Homes of Family Names in Great Britain, London 1890
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G.S. Haight: The George Eliot letters, Oxford 1940
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G.S. Haight: George Eliot, 1968
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H. Harrison: Surnames of the United Kingdom, London 1912-18
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R. Hewitt: A survey of the Mannor of Stockingford, Parcell of the Estate of Willoughby Aston, Barrt. in the County of Warwick. Wherein is contained as followeth viz. 1690.
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E.G. Kimball: Rolls of Warwickshire & Coventry Sessions of the peace 1377-97, Dugdale Society Vol. XVI 1939
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I.S. Leadham: Domesday of Inclosure, 1517-18 Vols. I & II, 1897; reprint Kennikat Press USA
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P. Lee: Project Nefam unpublished research, 1995 - ongoing
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B.A. Lees: Records of the Templars in England in the Twelfth Century, London 1935
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M.A. Lower; Patronymica Britannica, London 1860
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A. Lynes: George Eliot 1819-1969 Coventry City Libraries 1969
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A. Lynes: George Eliot's Coventry, Historical Association 1970
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C.M. Matthews: English Surnames: London 1966
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A. Mee: Warwickshire: The King's England
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D. Milburn: Nuneaton, The growth of a town. Nuneaton Corporation Library & Museum Committee 1963
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P.Morgan: Warwickshire Apprentices in Stationer's Company, London 1563-1700, Dugdale Society Occasional Paper No 25, 1978
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I. Mudge: A George Eliot Dictionary, Routledge 1924
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J. Nichols: The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire Vol.IV Pts. i & ii. 1795-1815
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P. Reaney: A Dictionary of British Surnames, Routledge 1958
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P. Reaney: The Origins of English Surnames, London 1967
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P. Reaney: Dictionary of English Surnames rev. R.Wilson 1991 3rd Ed. Routledge, Chapman & Hall
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A. Robinson: Index of the Warwickshire Poor & Transcriptions in Birmingham & Midland Genealogical Collection
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A.L. Scrivener: Nuneaton Observer, Old Nuneaton articles 1877-1881 these are the original articles that others may have used from 1886 onwards:e.g. Coleman, Fieldhouse, McCormick, Derry, Cross, Nason, Jebbett, Jeffreys, Bates, Betts etc.
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K.J. Smith: Warwickshire Apprentices & their masters 1710-1760, Dugdale Society Vol XXIX, 1975
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S. Smiles: The Huguenots, London 1880
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A.R. Wagner: English Genealogy, Oxford 1960
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A.W.A. White: Economic growth in the eighteenth century Warwickshire; a study of the rise of the Warwickshire coal industry with special reference to Sir Roger Newdegate Bart. of Arbury, estate owner and coalmaster, Ph.D., Birmingham University. 1972
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A.W.A. White: Sixty years of coalmining enterprise on the North Warwickshire Estate of the Newdigates of Arbury 1680-1740, M.A. Birmingham University. 1969
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J.B. Whitmore: A Genealogical Guide Pt.1 1947, Pt.2 1949, Pt.3 1950, Pt. 4 1953. Harleian Society.
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Census of England, Nuneaton area of Warwickshire 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 & 1891
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Constable Rental Surveys 1543-46
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Assize Rolls: Warwickshire
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Domesday Book, Leicestershire
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Domesday Book, Warwickshire
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Dugdale Papers
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English Place Names Society: Warwickshire
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Fairbairn's book of Crests of the families of Great Britain & Ireland Vols. 1 & 2
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Feet of Fines: Warwicks
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Hearth Tax Returns, 1662-1689 Hemlingford Hundred Vol. 1, Hemlingford Hundred, Ed. M. Walker, Warwick County Records 1957
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I.G.I. Warwickshire & Leicestershire, Mormons 1994.
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Index of Wills and Administrations in the Probate Registry at Canterbury 1396-1558; 1640-50
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Jodrell & Cross Collection of papers
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Lay Subsidy Rolls for Warwickshire: 6 Edward III 1332: Dugdale Society Vol.VI. 1926
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Memorandum Book of Occurrences 1810-1845 Nuneaton Diary John Astley
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Orders Made at the Quarter Sessions 1665-1674 Vol.V. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1939
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Quarter Sessions Indictment Book 1631-1674 Vol.VI. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1941
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Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625-1637 Vol. I. Ed. S.C Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1935
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Quarter Sessions Order Book 1637-1650 Vol. II. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1936
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Quarter Sessions Order Book 1650-1657 Vol. III. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1937
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Quarter Sessions Order Book 1657-1665 Vol. IV. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Record Office 1938
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Quarter Sessions Records 1674-1682 Vol.VII. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1941
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Quarter Sessions Records 1682-1690 Vol. VIII. Ed. S.C. Ratcliff, Warwick County Records Office 1953
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Quarter Sessions Records 1690-1696 Vol. IX. Ed. H.C. Johnson, Warwick County Records Office 1964
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Return of the Owners of Land: 1873 for the County of Warwickshire
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Uxbridge Survey 1746: Nuneaton, Attleborough and Stockingford, Staffordshire County Record Office.
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Victoria History of the County of Leicestershire: Vols. I, II, III, IV,V & VI
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Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: Vols. I, II, III, IV,V & VI
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Volume 91: Transactions of the Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society for 1981 pub. 1985
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Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1195-1284 Vol. I.: Dugdale Society Vol. XI 1932.
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Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1284-1345 Vol. II.: Dugdale Society Vol. XV 1939.
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Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1345-1509 Vol. III.: Dugdale Society Vol. XVIII 1943.
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Warwickshire Trade Directories Kelly, Lascelles, Smith, White, Post Office, Pigot etc.
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