The aim is to collect together all I know about all the ADSHEADs in the World.
I have registered variants ADSHEAD:- ADSHADE, &
ADSETT with the Guild
of One Name Studies:
See the Profile of the One-Name Study www.one-name.org/profiles/adshead
There is a Newsgroup for persons interested in sharing information on ADSHEADs by sending E-Mail to <adshead@yahoogroups.com but first you have to register with Yahoo by going to www.yahoogroups.com and registering under Adshead or click on the join button below. There is also in the Yahoo Group a file area containing a growing set of files, indexes, photos, trees etc. listing ADSHEADs and other relevant information.
There is also a Newsgroup (not preferred) at www.ancestry.com. I don't like this because it suppresses the E-Mail origin of the contributors, who are thus unable to communicate privately. However some may prefer this level of anonymity.
There are roughly 3000 ADSHEADs Worldwide. Nearly 30% of these still live in the Stockport Cheshire area of England. It is fairly certain that the surname originated in North East Cheshire. My grandmother always suggested that the name was derived from "Adze-Head" - where an Adze is a form of Axe with its head at right angles to the shaft, suitable for cutting small branches off a tree trunk. However it is much more likely that the name originated from a farm possibly near Adlington or Adswood. I am sure many know a lot more about the origins that I do, and I am hoping to make contact with them as soon as possible.
See an extended version at www.one-name.org/profiles/adshead
I have extracted all the Birth Marriage & Death
entries from the UK General Registers, FreeBMD, local BMDs. the VRI, and some
Parish Registers, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous indexes and added
feedback contributed by members of the ADSHEAD group.
There are a surprising number of differences between these sources, but where it
is reasonably certain, I have combined them to provide better information about
any one person.
Note: these lists are strictly indexes and users
should always refer to the original sources to be sure of facts. The
full files are available to any member of the Yahoo ADSHEAD Group.
I have mounted these three sets of records on the Ecriteria site to provide a simple way of searching and extracting subsets that meet a set of criteria. eg all Births where Mothers Maiden name is "XXXX" (where known - mostly in later years) helps to find other members of a family.
These may be searched by going to:-
ADSHEADBirthIndex
6425 records years 1583-partial-1837-most-2006
ADSHEADMarriageIndex
5086 records years 1525-partial-1837-most-2005
ADSHEADDeathIndex
6269 records years 1568-partial-1837-most-2005
Passwords: I have temporarily assigned the requirement to quote "Gordon" in the Password request field for all three sets of data.
There is a field CTRY to hold country. Where blank this implies England and Wales. All Scottish events should be included under SCOT. I have just begun to include some USA, CAN, INDS, AUS, NZ etc but these are far from complete at this stage.
Extracts from any search may be freely downloaded in .CSV format.
Year Dates: ECriteria will only permit selection by one Year rather than a range of years. It is important to note that most of the dates post 1837 are the dates of Registration, collected into Quarters 1 to 4. This can often mean that Events occurring in late December in any one year were actually registered in the following year.
I will be very grateful to receive any feed back to increase the accuracy of content of these indexes.
ADSHEADs listed in the UK InfoDisc CDROM
ADSHEADs listed in the Burk's Peerage "World Book of Adsheads"
ADSHEADs listed in www.ancestry.com
ADSHEADs listed in The Tombstone Study of Cheshire Churchyards
ADSHEADs listed in the US Social Security Index
ADSHEADs who's wills are deposited in the Chester Records Office
ADSHEADs listed in the LDS CDROM of the UK 1881 Census
Updated 5 Mar 2009