The Website |
In the early 1970s I started tracing my branch of the Stoner family and over the years collected a quantity of data. In the late 1990s much of it was placed on the website and ten years later this new version has clickable links between births, marriages, deaths, and families. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Stoner surname |
Although not featured in books on Sussex surnames, from the Victorian censuses it was apparent that Stoner is a Sussex name. A rough breakdown was Sussex 50%, 'London' 20%, Yorkshire 10%, and 'the rest' 20%. Mid and west Sussex had the main concentrations, with the Yorkshire Stoners largely in York, Leeds, and Bradford. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Within Sussex | This illustration taken from the Sussex Marriage Index CD has each parish coloured according to the number of Stoner marriages found between 1538 and 1837. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
England and Wales1881 and 1998 distributions |
The site
http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php based on ONS data for 2002
shows the surname as 3936th in the frequency ranking with a total of 1861 Stoners in the UK.
The distribution and concentration are well illustrated using the mapping facility at
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Surnames.aspx/
originally at http://www.spatial-literacy.org/. These are based on the relative frequency,
not actual counts.
The 1881 and 1998 distributions look like this
Because some of Sussex is in the RH (Redhill) postcode grouping, the main concentration appears to spread from Sussex into Surrey. The latter county, and to a lesser extent Hampshire, do have their share of Stoners. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Wide |
On the larger stage www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/
has some interesting tables offering FPM 'frequency per million' values, based on current name databases.
The results were listed under Countries, Regions, and Cities.
I found it surprising that New Zealand had the region with most Stoners per million of population. It turned out that the population of the region in 2006 was just over 30,000 meaning about a dozen were named Stoner. But not surprising were the top cities, based on postcodes most of which include Sussex. |
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My own Stoner line |
The first eight Stoners identified in my line hailed from Sussex; I'm from Surrey.
Circumstantial evidence places the Thomas marrying Mary as a son of Robert and Elizabeth. Stoner entries in the Woodmancote parish registers cease with Robert's death and the names of their offspring re-appear at Cowfold. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Feedback | The site is a work-in-progress as I have more data offline. Please let me know of any transcription errors or incorrect links between family members. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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