Today I've thrown myself into colating and filing miscellaneous records and setting up a mailing group for the Edenborough ONS.
Working from the 1841 census, I have so far identified five distinct lines which I am hopeful will all connect back to one common ancestor.
The next step will be to send out invitation emails to those whom I know to be actively researching various Edenboroughs and with a bit of luck we'll find that ancestor.
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Friday, 11 July 2008
I've just read an interesting and detailed report on the "Pomeroy Surname Reconstruction Project" by Chris Pomery. Chris put together the report to assist fellow Guild of One Name Study members who are considering DNA projects to complement their one-name studies. The report outlined his ONS results, benefits gained from running a ONS and lessons learned. Reading the report has given me a far better understanding of what I need to do with my own study. To start with, I think I waste a lot of time thinking about the ONS and collecting material willy-nilly instead of sorting and reporting on the material I already have. I've decided to set myself some goals, and by the end of July I hope to have achieved the following:
1. Description of the size of the Edenborough ONS.
2. A study history to date of the Edenborough ONS.
3. A report on the surname variants of the study.
1. Description of the size of the Edenborough ONS.
2. A study history to date of the Edenborough ONS.
3. A report on the surname variants of the study.
This photo is of the seven sons of Thomas and Harriet Edenborough (nee Whitfield). Back row (l to r): Frank Dudley (1843-1897), Frederick (1842-1931), Clarence Marsland (1846-pre-1891), Wellesley Maxwell (1852-1897). Sitting (l to r): Edward Montague (1850-1940), Charles (1840-1897) and Melville (1855-1945).
There were also four sisters - Harriet, Rosa, Jemima and Florence but I haven't located a picture of any of them as yet.
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Yesterday, I attended a meeting of some Sydney-based GOONS (Guild of One Name Studies) and came away very enthused about getting on with my Edenborough ONS blog. I'm also going to endeavour to post messages more regularly and, I hope to have an actual website, as well, in the not-to-distant future. It was certainly a great opportunity to meet up with fellow ONS researchers and while we are small in number in Australia compared to the UK we are just as dedicated.
Monday, 15 October 2007
Origin of Name
Trying to find the origin of the Edenborough surname has proven far more difficult than I expected.
Lower’s Patronymica Britannica, The Oxford Dictionary of British Surnames and Black’s The Surnames of Scotland all suggest it as being a variation of Edinburgh, the Scottish metropolis.
Apart from three christenings of Edenburghs in the 1690s and the marriage of an Edingburgh in1809, I am yet to find any further appearances of the surname to support the Scottish theory.
Henry Harrison in The Surnames of the United Kingdom suggests a connection to the King of Northumbria, Eadwine.
And Charles Wareing Bardsley writes in English Surnames “that the manorial residence is still in many parts of England, with the country folk, the ‘bury’. To this or ‘borough’ we owe our Burys, Boroughs, Borrows, Buroughs, Broughs, Burghs” – all variations I have found in my Edenborough research.
The surname is quite obviously locative and, with the help of some very knowledgeable fellow GOONS (in particular, Andrew Millard), Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, could be a strong contender for the place of origin.
In recent correspondence to me, Andrew pointed out that findings of the EPNS show Attenborough as having been variously Addenbroug’ (1305), Adenburgh (1401), Adynburgh (1439), Addenborough (1496), Adenberow/Adenborrow (1535), Adenborowe (1570) and the spelling of Attenborough with “tt” rather than “d” or “dd” only appears from 1617. Furthermore, Andrew wrote “make the minor vowel change from A to E and you have Edenborough and its variants”.
My studies into the surname have already shown a strong localisation to this area, so thanks to Andrew, I’ll now start looking into the Nottinghamshire contender as place of origin as well as widening my research of Edenborough to include variants of Addenborough and will post my finds as they arise.
Lower’s Patronymica Britannica, The Oxford Dictionary of British Surnames and Black’s The Surnames of Scotland all suggest it as being a variation of Edinburgh, the Scottish metropolis.
Apart from three christenings of Edenburghs in the 1690s and the marriage of an Edingburgh in1809, I am yet to find any further appearances of the surname to support the Scottish theory.
Henry Harrison in The Surnames of the United Kingdom suggests a connection to the King of Northumbria, Eadwine.
And Charles Wareing Bardsley writes in English Surnames “that the manorial residence is still in many parts of England, with the country folk, the ‘bury’. To this or ‘borough’ we owe our Burys, Boroughs, Borrows, Buroughs, Broughs, Burghs” – all variations I have found in my Edenborough research.
The surname is quite obviously locative and, with the help of some very knowledgeable fellow GOONS (in particular, Andrew Millard), Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, could be a strong contender for the place of origin.
In recent correspondence to me, Andrew pointed out that findings of the EPNS show Attenborough as having been variously Addenbroug’ (1305), Adenburgh (1401), Adynburgh (1439), Addenborough (1496), Adenberow/Adenborrow (1535), Adenborowe (1570) and the spelling of Attenborough with “tt” rather than “d” or “dd” only appears from 1617. Furthermore, Andrew wrote “make the minor vowel change from A to E and you have Edenborough and its variants”.
My studies into the surname have already shown a strong localisation to this area, so thanks to Andrew, I’ll now start looking into the Nottinghamshire contender as place of origin as well as widening my research of Edenborough to include variants of Addenborough and will post my finds as they arise.
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