More Sewell Data

By Ian Sewell

This article was published in the December 2016 edition of Soul Search, the Journal of The Sole Society

As part of the work I am doing to update the Sewell information I thought I would give you an over view of the data that we have. We have at the moment 12 Gedcoms covering the whole country, though this will change slightly as I have a few changes to make such as merging the gedcom for Norfolk and Norwich. These files cover 35 counties and contain a total of 22,260 individuals of which 15,134 are names of interest. Each one now has a unique number made up from the County Code, Parish Code and a sequential number of the first confirmed record for that tree. The top 5 names are in the table opposite, with other variants making up the rest. The variants are primarily in specific counties: Saywell in Kent, Cambridgeshire & Essex, Seawall in Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire & Northamptonshire and Sewall in Warwickshire, Essex & Durham
The breakdown by county is not surprising with the top five counties being Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northants and Cumberland. However, I feel that once I have complete the 1881 census Cumberland and Durham will move up.
The total number of trees by county is shown below.
Unsurprisingly given the number of names in Essex the two largest trees come from Essex, though LINfroA (a tree from Lincolnshire) is a surprisingly large tree.

Name	Number of individuals	% of Total
SEWELL	13,709	90.59%
SEWEL	404	2.67%
SAYWELL	222	1.47%
SEAWELL	186	1.23%
SEWALL	90	0.59%

County	Number of trees	Total individuals
Bedfordshire	1	2
Buckinghamshire	11	136
Cambridgeshire	26	255
Cheshire	12	23
Cornwall	21	37
Cumberland	49	783
Derbyshire	32	87
Devon	38	93
Dorset	3	3
Durham	199	618
Essex	693	3260
Gloucestershire	4	44
Hertfordshire	41	335
Isle of Wight	2	48

Kent	52	370
Leicestershire	3	29
Lincolnshire	10	417
London	31	397
Middlesex	28	382
Northumberland	50	277
Norfolk	317	2477
Northamtonshire	53	770
Nottinghamshire	85	395
Oxfordshire	8	132
Rutland	8	205
Somerset	4	54
Suffolk	410	1611
Surrey	93	480
Sussex	47	226
Staffordshire	1	2
Warwickshire	68	285
Westmorland	3	94
Wiltshire	1	27
Worcestershire	21	142
Yorkshire	2	5

Tree	Number of individuals
ESSgmpC	360
ESSgdnU	332
LINfroA	272
NFKhadA	186
NFKhalA	173