How many of us are
there?
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Another page about the name (origin)
suggested that our ancestors were a family or community
from a village in Hampshire or Devon.
Another section
describes how and why the spelling has varied (Spelling
variations).
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How
many of us are there now?
If you have
any information about Titherlys in other countries,
possibly based on a census there, do please click here to
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| The following two tables indicate the
number of people called Titherly / Tytherleigh, or one
of the other spelling variations, in 1901 and 2003 respectively.
The tables are not based on the same information, so be
careful about making comparisons between the two. |
| This table is based on the 1901
census for England and Wales |
| Spelling |
How Many? |
Notes |
| Tetherleigh |
None |
These
spellings of the name seem to have disappeared by the
beginning of the 20th century. |
| Tetherley |
| Tetherly |
| Titherleigh |
| Tytherly |
| Titherley |
58 |
From
most parts of the country, especially London, Glamorganshire
and Devonshire |
| Titherly |
8 |
All
living in London, mostly in the Chelsea area |
| Tytherleigh |
144 |
Well
spread out, but London and Somerset recur a lot |
| Tytherley |
7 |
Appears
to be a single family living in Nottinghamshire, but with
Somerset connections |
| All
spellings, all ages |
217 |
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| This table is based on the electoral
registers for 2003 and 2004. The information was collected
by councils in October 2002 and 2003. (Please see the
note below the table about its accuracy) |
| Spelling |
How Many? |
Notes |
| Tetherleigh |
None |
These
spellings of the name seem to have disappeared by the
beginning of the 20th century and have not reappeared. |
| Tetherley |
| Tetherly |
| Tytherly |
| Titherleigh |
1 |
Although there was no-one with this spelling in 1901,
there is now one in Surrey. |
| Titherley |
28 |
The
ones who were in London in 1901 seem to have moved out.
Now about a third are in Nottinghamshire, with most of
the others in Lincs, Lancs, Derbyshire and Preston. |
| Titherly |
34 |
The
vast majority in East Sussex, with no more than a couple
in each of West Sussex, London, Surrey and South Yorkshire |
| Tytherleigh |
180 |
Surrey
dominates, but quite a few are close to the part of the
country where the surname originated, around Devon, Wiltshire
and Hampshire. |
| Tytherley |
13 |
Just
as in 1901, this spelling occurs mostly in Nottinghamshire
but there are a couple of others in England and some in
Scotland. |
| All
spellings, adults only (see note) |
256 |
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Note: There is also
one Tytherlehy in Norfolk and one Tytnerley in London. These
may be spelling variations, spelling mistakes or a different
name altogether.
| Note
about accuracy
As the first table
above is based on a census, it should include everyone,
of any age, who was living in England and Wales in 1901.
The second table is
based on the electoral register. It is therefore less
reliable. The reasons for this are many. For a start,
only people who are eligible to vote, or who will become
eligible during the following year, are included. So
it excludes infants and young teenagers, for example.
Secondly, although the law says they should, not everyone
fills in the electoral registration form, so some people
are missing, even though they would have been eligible
vote. The third reason is that the information is taken
from the public edition of the register, that is available
for anyone to see. The law changed before the collection
of the information for 2004, and allows people to choose
not to be in the public edition of the register. So
some people who did fill in the form will not be shown
in this version of the register because they chose to
be excluded. Where that is the case, the 2003 register
has been used to gather the numbers for the table, because
people did not have the choice when the information
was collected that year.
Having said all of
that, this combination of the 2003 and 2004 electoral
registers should give a reasonable indication of the
numbers of people aged 17 or more who share our surname
in one of its spelling variations.
The other big difference
between the tables is that the 1901 census figures only
cover England and Wales, whereas the 2003/4 electoral
register includes Scotland although that has not affected
the numbers much as there are only two occurrences in
Scotland. |
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