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.
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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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