Multiple surnames

• There's a rich body of information on the Hugh Wallis web site.
   
• Submit a Query or Surnames for your lost Nottinghamshire ancestors at Rootsweb GenBBS Pages for Nottinghamshire. If you include Surnames in your query the surname list will be updated regularly.
   

Specific surnames

• Chris Drakes has a One Name Study on DRAKES/DRAX/DRACASS/DRACAS and variants.
   
• New (as of April 2005) is the HIND(E) surname forum.
   
• Celia RENSHAW advises that the surname STARBUCK is rare and, in the 17th century, mostly found where Derbys, Notts and Leics meet around Wilne and Attenborough.
   
• Ever go on a wildgoose chase? Here's one that may be worthwhile. Try looking up your WILLGOOSE connections.
   

Other resources you might wish to search are:

• Don't forget to do the Global searches at Family Search, or Rootsweb. Use the Advanced Search features, where provided, to limit your searches to Nottinghamshire.
   
• What's behind some of those Christian or given names? Look at the Behind The Name site.
   

Future site or source listings will be accepted on this page only if they offer a general lookup. This is not intended to be a surname exchange page to replace those already in existance.

The following persons survived the crash of the British-built airship "R101" on October 5th 1930.

Information supplied by Harry Wykes of the Airship Heritage Trust

On October 5th 1930 the British-built airship "R101" crashed into a hillside near Beauvais in France killing everybody on board. [The underlined words were in the text supplied to GENUKI - but see "R101 Survivors"]

The following are listed as having been killed:-

Documents on the R101 are held in the Public Record Office in Kew under AIR 3,5,& 11. Photographs of the wreckage are under AIR5/1070 via 6/573/1/.

• General
  • The relevance of surnames in genealogy (archived copy) provided by the Society of Genealogists gives some interesting background information.
  • The GENUKI Surnames List index and Mailing List Index provide county by county listings with links to appropriate pages or information.
  • Thesaurus of British Surnames (archived copy) - a project, now terminated, that developed and managed an online thesaurus of British surname variants.
  • Nicknames and Naming Traditions.
  • The Surname Thesaurus - "a technology for finding Surname and Forename variants" (archived copy)
  • Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) - an ongoing project.
  • PublicProfiler - "The world family name mapping website uses many new and up to date sources to tell you where in the world people with your family name are found. Additionally, we provide lots of interesting facts and figures about the people who share your family name".
  • The Original Record.com provides free surname searches of "1,000 years of unusual records that have not been accessible before", and the ability to purchase scans taken the original documents.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland - press release.
• Biographies 
  • Who Was Who (the compilation of entries in Who's Who of people alive after 1897)  and Who's Who are available by online subscription access (possibly free via your local library) and hard copy.  
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is available by online subscription access (possibly free via your local library) and hard copy.
  • Wikipedia's Biography Portal. 
  • Obituary Daily Times - an index of published obituaries
  • For those who may have been mentioned, even if only in passing, in books, see Bibliography
  • For people famous or infamous enough to get their names in the newspapers or to have obituaries, or posh enough to announce their births, marriages and deaths, see Newspapers.
  • Search engines like Google are always worth a try, although you may have to scroll through many pages of hits.
  • Archive and Library catalogues usually have synopses which will often allow you to find a name even if it is not in the book title.
  • For those who may have appeared at the Old Bailey Old Bailey Online.
  • If you know their occupation, see Occupations. (In particular, for ministers of religion, see under Church Officials).
• Specialised Name Listings
  • Names extracted from the book "THE GREAT DAYS OF THE CANALS" by Anthony Burton.
  • The names of actors and actresses who died pre 1930 and who are listed in the book "WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE" edited by John PARKER and printed in 1930.
  • The Agincourt Honor Roll (archived copy) - a list of nearly 1000 participants in this 1415 battle.
  • Indexes to parish returns towards the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, ca.1678 in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
  • Marion Hebblethwaite's George Cross Database lists and provides information about recipients.
  • A variety of name listings were produced by the late Ted Wildy and are available online, including:
    • Names from "A Country Camera 1844-1914" by Gordon Winter.
    • Casualties in the R101 Airship Disaster
    • Names from the book "Trade Tokens" by J.R.S. Whiting
    • Casualties listed in the East India Directory and Register, 1832
    • Names from "The Atlantic Telegraph" by W.H. Russell, c1866
  • Colin Mackie's Directories - of British Diplomats, British Civil Servants (1900-), British Armed Forces (1860-), Composers, and U.S. Senators (1863-).

Bardsley, Alan. First name variants. Birmingham: Federation of Family History Societies (2003) 18pp. [ISBN-13: 978-1860061776]

(See also Military History and Occupations.)