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Lawson Name Distribution in England and Wales

 

All Lawson births for England and Wales registered at St. Catherine's House between 1837 when registration commenced and 1879 have been analysed with a view to noting the trends throughout the country. From these, percentage figures have been deduced for each County and clearly these show where the Lawson name is strongest.

 

The map below shows the English and Welsh Counties, each being identified by its 3 letter Chapman Code.

 

 

Figures for the period up to 1849 are listed in the table below. Not surprisingly, Yorkshire heads the percentage table where in the early years births accounted for a quarter of the total for the country. In turn the Counties of Lancashire, Durham, Northumberland and Cumberland follow. The figures for London are clearly considerable but they represent a somewhat difficult figure to analyse as they are spread between the surrounding Counties.

 

The following table gives a break down of the figures under review showing the number of births per County with corresponding percentages as part of the total births.

 

ENGLISH
COUNTY

1837-1839

1840-1844

1845-1849 
          Yorkshire

116

 24.95%

234

21.21%

246

 20.83% 

          Lancashire

59

  12.69%

184

 16.68%

208

 17.61% 

          Durham

66

  14.19%

134

 12.15%

165

 13.97% 

          Northumberland

39

 8.38%

88

 7.98%

85

 7.20% 

          Cumberland

28

  6.02%

73

 6.62%

77

 6.52% 

          Lincoln

25

 5.37%

45

 4.08%

51

 4.32% 

          Nottinghamshire

21

  4.51%

46

 4.17%

40

  3.39% 

          London

38

  8.17%

114

 10.34%

102

 8.64% 

          Rest Total

73

  15.7%

185

 16.77%

207

 17.52%

 

These figures show clearly that Yorkshire consistently had the largest number of birth with Lancashire a close second. The figures generally show that the further away from these Counties then the percentage drops sharply. Figures for the other remaining Counties have been grouped together for comparison purposes but whilst full statistics are available these follow the same pattern generally, that is the further south the lower the figure, with some Counties showing no births in some years. After Nottinghamshire, the next largest total represents no higher than 2% of the total births and the majority show less than 0.5%.

 

Figures for the period up to 1879 show a remarkable consistency with the above figures with each County maintaining a similar percentage of the total births. Those for Yorkshire do not drop below 20% in any period.

 

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