Aveton Gifford Parish Registers

List of names


Names so far transcribed and entered into the register.

Note that the following lists have been simplified so that names that would sound the same have all been grouped together. In the index, the original spellings have been retained.

Please do not ask for names that are not included in this list, as this is only wasting my time and yours.

50 most common names

Alphabetical list


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50 most common surnames on the Aveton Gifford registers

(=5424 entries)

Elliot 401

Leigh 252

Steer 206

Searle 205

Hill 203

Saunders 193

Harris 191

Cole 174

Pinwell 145

Couch 140

Hingston 130

Phillips 128

Frost 126

Wakeham 120

Sheriff 120

Bastard 119

Thornton 115

Snowdon 114

Moore 114

Prowse 106

Lake 106

Harwood 106

Edgecombe 101

Macey 94

Bound 89

Luckraft 88

Weeks 87

Treeby 87

Lidstone 85

Yabsley 83

Rider 73

Horsewill 73

Ford 73

Screech 70

Shepherd 69

Davy 68

Torring 62

Damarel 62

Brown 61

Pulliblank 60

Luscombe 60

Parsons 57

Adams 54

Spiney 52

Ball 52

Widger 51

Terry 51

Janes 50

Froude 49

Bickford 49


Complete list of names and number of occurrences in the Aveton Gifford registers

(total of 9201 entries)

Abraham 6

Adams 54

Allen 1

Amm 1

Amyatt 8

Andrews 19

Angel 1

Aning 1

Anstis 12

Anthony 1

Arthur 1

Ash 5

Atwills 13

Augar 2

Austin 2

Avery 1

Bailey 19

Bajsett 10

Baker 1

Ball 52

Bardens 44

Barons 31

Barret 2

Bartlett 18

Bastard 119

Bate 1

Battershall 10

Bawdon 1

Beer 29

Bevil 35

Bickford 49

Bickle 1

Bidlake 1

Blackler 2

Blank 1

Boar 1

Bolt 1

Boon 28

Borner 4

Bound 89

Bower 1

Bowhay 19

Bows 6

Bray 1

Breese 4

Brend 13

Brennan 1

Brian 1

Bridgell 1

Broadstock 1

Brooking 46

Brossier 8

Brown 61

Browning 2

Bruton 1

Bullock 1

Bunker 5

Burden 1

Burgoyne 5

Burleigh 7

Burner 4

Camp 4

Carrington 1

Carton 6

Cartwright 3

Casely 2

Cawes 1

Cawker 2

Cawsey 1

Chader 1

Chaff 1

Chappel 39

Ching 2

Cholwich 2

Chubb 17

Chudleigh 6

Churchill 1

Clark 13

Clements 21

Cleve 23

Cliffe 3

Cloak 18

Clowter 1

Coaker 1

Coal 1

Cockram 3

Codd 37

Cole 174

Collins 15

Colmer 1

Colton 2

Combe 3

Conch 1

Coney 1

Coneybeare 1

Cook 13

Cookesley 1

Coote 1

Cork 2

Cornish 1

Cornthwaite 3

Cory 3

Couch 140

Coulton 3

Cove 22

Cowhay 1

Cowleigh 1

Coyte 39

Cranch 10

Crappin 3

Creese 1

Crimp 37

Crispin 12

Crober 33

Cully 2

Cumming 36

Curtis 7

Cutland 1

Cutmore 1

Cysta 9

Dair 1

Dale 5

Damarel 62

Date 35

Davy 68

Daw 2

Dawbell 1

Denbow 19

Derry 5

Dickly 1

Dixon 2

Dolling 1

Dredge 1

Drew 34

Dunning 33

Dyer 1

Dymond 3

Earle 17

Eastlee 4

Edgecombe 101

Edgeland 1

Edwards 47

Efford 1

Elizabeth 2

Elliot 401

Ellis 31

Endicott 1

Evans 29

Fairweather 1

Farleigh 12

Ferris 5

Fisick 1

Flashman 1

Follett 2

Follett 1

Ford 73

Forrest 7

Fortescue 1

Foster 4

Found 8

Fox 48

Frick 6

Friend 22

Frost 126

Froude 49

Furmage 1

Furneaux 1

Furze 3

Gabb 1

Gard 1

Garland 2

Gay 8

Gee 4

George 1

German 1

Gest 1

Gibbons 3

Gill 30

Gloynes 6

Gofs 1

Goole 1

Grant 18

Grays 1

Grinvill 1

Griseat 1

Grute 14

Haddy 3

Hall 4

Hamlyn 44

Hannaford 19

Hardy 2

Harris 191

Hart 9

Harvey 2

Harwood 106

Hatch 1

Hawkins 5

Hayes 20

Hayman 1

Heath 13

Hebert 1

Hellier 45

Hemmet 1

Henwood 4

Hesketh 1

Hewit 6

Hext 3

Heybert 1

Hill 203

Hine 15

Hingston 130

Hobbs 1

Hodder 16

Holloway 1

Honywill 1

Hooppell 5

Hore 32

Hors 3

Horsewill 73

Hosking 1

Hove 2

Howard 1

Howarth 1

Howe 1

Hoyles 1

Hoyt 1

Huit 3

Humphrey 1

Hunter 2

Hurrell 46

Hutchings 7

Isaac 1

Janes 50

Jarvis 5

Jeffery 11

Joll 23

Jubb 1

Kast 1

Keagle 1

Kearsley 1

Kellie 4

Kember 1

Kemp 2

Kent 2

Kerr 1

Kerswell 17

Kevern 1

King 16

Kingdom 1

Kingwell 4

Kitt 24

Knight 5

Knowling 1

Lake 106

Lakeman 46

Lambell 1

Lampshire 1

Lane 9

Langmead 17

Langworthy 4

Lapthorne 2

Laramy 1

Laskey 22

Laurence 1

Lavers 15

Lawson 1

Leigh 252

Lethbridge 19

Lewis 2

Libby 1

Lidstone 85

Light 6

Lindon 41

Lome 4

Longmead 2

Longworthy 1

Loom 1

Loosmor 1

Louis 2

Love 1

Loynes 9

Luckraft 88

Lugar 10

Luke 10

Luscombe 60

Mabine 1

Macey 94

Maddick 29

Man 7

Mark 4

Marshall 1

Marten 45

Mary 2

Masters 1

Mathews 13

Maunder 10

May 4

Maynard 1

Meagar 2

Meddick 2

Merrifield 1

Michelmore 1

Middleton 2

Milcomb 3

Miller 1

Mills 11

Milton 1

Minord 1

Mitchell 4

Montague 1

Moore 114

Morgan 20

Mortimore 33

Mosey 1

Mudge 14

Mumpford 11

Murch 14

Neal 1

Need 1

Neighbour 1

Newcomb 1

Nichoals 1

Nott 1

Nugent 4

Oldriffe 6

Osbourne 5

Paddon 1

Painter 2

Palfree 1

Palmer 1

Papleigh 1

Paraton 1

Parnell 13

Parramore 5

Parsons 57

Partridge 11

Patey 5

Pearse 28

Peek 4

Peek 1

Pengelly 44

Penhay 1

Pepperall 38

Pering 1

Phillips 128

Picken 3

Pillage 3

Pinwell 145

Pitts 10

Pollard 1

Pomeroy 1

Pope 23

Port 25

Postett 1

Pound 1

Price 1

Prideaux 3

Prin 3

Priston 1

Prowse 106

Pulliblank 60

Purdy 6

Putt 37

Quint 27

Ramsey 1

Randle 35

Rawling 3

Reeve 4

Rhodes 2

Rich 3

Richards 1

Rider 73

Risdon 7

Rivell 1

Roach 21

Roberts 10

Rogers 30

Rooke 2

Roper 27

Row 1

Rugg 6

Rundle 14

Ruth 24

Samuel 1

Saterly 5

Saunders 193

Savery 9

Scaggel 5

Scobell 38

Screech 70

Searle 205

Seaward 3

Shearer 2

Shepherd 69

Sheriff 120

Sherwill 22

Shilston 2

Shore 2

Shortridge 4

Sibley 1

Simpson 7

Skelton 5

Skinner 2

Slade 2

Small 6

Smeridge 3

Smith 3

Snell 1

Snowdon 114

Soper 3

Southcombe 5

Southern 44

Spiney 52

Spurway 8

Square 3

Stabb 1

Stacey 5

Stanning 17

Steer 206

Stentiford 14

Stephens 16

Stert 45

Stidston 9

Stone 38

Straw 9

Strong 1

Stumbles 28

Sturtridge 1

Sullock 5

Sunter 2

Sweet 1

Tabb 6

Tabb 1

Tamlin 15

Taylor 47

Terry 51

Thomas 14

Thorn 13

Thornton 115

Thriscut 3

Tilley 1

Tinnes 1

Tippet 6

Tisdale 1

Toger 1

Tole 9

Tony 1

Tope 6

Torring 62

Toser 1

Trant 1

Treeby 87

Trost 7

Tucker 11

Turtley 13

Underhill 10

Vaughan 4

Veal 4

Vincent 15

Voisey 6

Wakeham 120

Waldron 21

Walters 11

Ward 20

Warren 10

Watts 1

Webber 7

Weeks 87

West 2

Weymouth 7

Whiddon 24

White 20

Whiting 10

Whitlock 5

Widger 51

Williams 17

Willing 38

Wills 7

Wilton 25

Windeat 9

Winsor 22

Wise 9

Witheridge 16

Wolston 1

Woodmason 15

Woods 4

Woolcot 12

Wooldridge 9

Worden 1

Wotton 2

Wyatt 12

Yabbacombe 4

Yabsley 83

Yard 9

Yolland 1


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