Topics

• About the Beadnell One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Beadnell One-Name Study

Stories are what interest me. For that reason I have been focussing on family reconstruction through documentation. Every event is captured, but often rather than one type of record, one family is followed through all possible documents, capturing citations for others along the road for the next family.

Variants

The true variants that are being researched are Beadnall, Bednell, and Bednall. Deviants can be found with only one 'l', and so far only in older records two e's instead of 'ea'. The rest are transcription errors from the flowing script of years gone by such as mixing up L and E and taking the N for a W.

Origin of the surname

A geographical name through two forms. The Beadnell variations are primarly found in North Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland where one can find the villiage of Beadnell. Bednell on the other hand shows up around Staffordshire where surprise surprise, the town of Bednall resides. Those place names are both said to derive from old English: nook, remote place, valley, or flat land by the side of a river belonging to Bada/Beta

Historical occurrences

Maria Beadnell was a beau of Charles Dickens. In a odd turn of events, another member did the make-up for Maria Beadnell in the BBC history of Charles Dickens and happens to be doing another branch of my family. I hadn't found a reference in my little research I'd done up till then other than family stories of 'Cousin Maria' and a family book stolen from the home signed by Charles Dickens.

Links

http://beadnell.tribalpages.com/

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Miss Rosemary Smith
E-mail:

This page last updated 13 January 2012.

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