Shornley Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 20
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 2
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Shornley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shornley family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 7
General Servant Domestic 2
Farmer 2
House Keeper 2
Cloth Weaver 2
Coal Merchant 1
Cotton Band Maker 1
Cotton Bank Maker 1
Cotton Doubler 1
Baker 1
Living On Her Own Means 1
Railway Porter 1
Retired Tailor 1
Foreman 1
Garden Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shornley

Name Census Frequency
Mary Shornley 16
John Shornley 14
James Shornley 11
Elizabeth Shornley 9
Robert Shornley 6
William Shornley 6
Ellen Shornley 5
Frederick Shornley 5
Peter Shornley 5
Thomas Shornley 5
Annie Shornley 4
Esther Shornley 4
Jane Shornley 4
Margaret Shornley 4
Alice Shornley 3
Ann Shornley 3
George Shornley 3
Hannah Shornley 3
Sarah Shornley 3
Albert Shornley 2
Alfred Shornley 2
Andrew Shornley 2
Anne Shornley 2
Arthur Shornley 2
Betsy Shornley 2

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