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On the assumption that the given name Tobias was extremely unusual before the 1960s and is therefore likely to have been an 'inherited' family name, I repeated my analysis of the 1901 census, with the following results:

Born overseas     85
Lancashire   45
London    44 (most of these the offspring of Tobiases born overseas)
Yorkshire   33
Cornwall   26
Lincolnshire   19
Staffordshire   10
Rest <10

Not quite as clear as the results for Snape, but pretty suggestive.  Map here.

Left Behind? Bored? Suffering from Portus Envy (or Snapefest Envy)? Well, we've got the cure.

You may not be going to Portus, but that doesn't mean you can't have any fun this week!

As thrilled as we all are for our fandom friends who are enjoying the festivities in Dallas (and really, we are thrilled), that doesn't mean that those of us who are missing it have to miss out. Instead of sitting around and feeling sad and allowing LJ to slow to a crawl this week, why not channel all that frustration into some fabulous creativity? There are tons of talented people who won't be at Portus this week, and if we put our heads together, we can entertain one another quite well. Already, a number of brilliant drabble challenges and other special projects have been proposed.

That's where portus_envy comes in. Let this community serve as your nexus of entertainment. We aim to showcase all the challenges, stories, art, icons and more that are produced by your fellow Portus outcasts. Offering to write custom drabbles for those with Portus Envy? Post your offer here! Have you come up with a fun game for others to play? Post it! If you're moved to start a special project, write fic, create icons, drabble or drawble this week, then please feel free to post a link or announcement here, so that others can see it and enjoy. The more people that get involved, the better!

So if you're looking for a good way to pass the week, looking to commiserate with fellow fans or are interested in meeting new and different people from all corners of the HP fandom, then come surf portus_envy and see what's going on! As far as we're concerned, this is our own sort of party, and we're planning to have plenty of fun at it.

Please, come join the celebration! We'd be delighted to have you all--any ship, any corner, as long as you're interested in Harry Potter fandom and want enjoy the creativity.

Enjoy the community and spread the word!

(With immense thanks to sylvanawood for graciously allowing me to post this here on Snapedom.)

For those of you who no longer use Livejournal, or no longer wish to use it, a mirror community has been arranged at portus_envy. Please feel free to check it out, join and start posting, if you're interested.

Further to the above, I've been looking at the name Tobias. Such is my ignorance (Jewish, here), I didn't realise that the Book of Tobias/Tobit is one of the books that is considered apocryphal by Protestants, but is part of the Catholic bible. So the name Tobias is more likely to be given in Catholic families.

Obviously I'm out on a limb here, but here I go.

Tobias Snape's family origins were Lancashire Catholic.

There. *ducks*