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torino10154 is still away on holidays, so I'll post her next question this week:Compare and contrast book!Snape with movie!Snape. What do the movies get right? What is just oh so wrong?
July 8th, 2008
torino10154 is still away on holidays, so I'll post her next question this week:Compare and contrast book!Snape with movie!Snape. What do the movies get right? What is just oh so wrong?
I've analysed the distribution of Snapes in the 1901 census because (i) it is the most recent census available and (ii) it gives a very good indication of surname distribution, coming just as the population began to be very mobile. I have looked at the counties of birth of heads of households only, both for simplicity and because the explosion of social mobility meant that people were moving and marrying out of county enough to blur the results.
The results are very clear, the top counties of birth being:
Lancashire 336
Staffordshire 122
Cheshire 44
Warwickshire 37
Yorkshire 28
Derbyshire 25
London 15
which pretty well settles my internal debate over which side of the Pennines Snape was likely to have been born. Yay for the north-west!
And there is a big map on my LJ.
The results are very clear, the top counties of birth being:
Lancashire 336
Staffordshire 122
Cheshire 44
Warwickshire 37
Yorkshire 28
Derbyshire 25
London 15
which pretty well settles my internal debate over which side of the Pennines Snape was likely to have been born. Yay for the north-west!
And there is a big map on my LJ.