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Boustead One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Boustead   **** available for adoption ****

Variants: Bousted, Bowstead, Bowsted

Category:  2 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way, but currently in some countries only.

DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/Boustred/default.aspx

Contact: Mrs Anni Berman

About the study

This study is in its early stages. I am adding it to my two existing studies, Boustred and Bulstrode, because all three names figure in my DNA project, so I now feel it is important to start researching the Boustead family, too. I am happy to receive any enquiries, and I will do my best to help. I have enough information now that I may well be able to help with your enquiry.

Variant names

The largest group in this study is the BOUSTEAD name, followed by BOWSTEAD. There are also a smaller number of BOUSTED and BOWSTED records. Occasionally, BONSTEAD and BONSTEAD occur, but I am now convinced that these surnames have no living name bearers, and indeed may never have done so. I believe that these are all probably transcription errors or wrongly recorded originals, and there are many of them on genealogy websites, making it look as if the names exist. In every single case I have investigated, the Bonstead or Bonsted has turned out to be a Boustead or Bousted. If you know anyone living who really does have the name Bonstead or Bonsted, I would be very interested to know!

Distribution of the name

The Bousteads seem to be found mostly in the north of England, with the biggest concentrations being in Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland and Durham. As in almost every family, some members moved to London, so a number of branches can be found there, too.

Data

I am starting my study by working from the Birth, Marriage and Death registrations in England and Wales between 1837 and the present day, as far as they are available. I am aiming to try to link the birth, marriage and death records together to attach them to specific individuals. I am also working with the census records from 1841 to 1911 and the 1939 Register to try to reconstruct the family groups into small family trees, which I then hope to link together into larger trees. I am also very interested in the men who died in the two World Wars, so I am already researching them and their families. This means that the study is also reaching out to Australia, New Zealand and Canada, right from the beginning, since some of those who died came from those countries, though many were possibly from the first generation to be born there, and indeed some of them who served with Australian, New Zealand and Canadian regiments were themselves born in the UK.

DNA

I have set up a DNA project to try to discover whether or not the Bousteads, Boustreds and Bulstrodes share a common ancestor. We have four samples in the database already - a Boustred one and three Bulstrode ones. If you would be interested in taking part in a DNA project, please do contact me - there are no Boustead samples in the project yet. Because the DNA test uses the male Y chromosome, only direct male line name-bearing Boustreds, Bousteads and Bulstrodes can take part. Sadly, being female, that counts me out! Further details of the project can be found at: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Boustred/default.aspx

Links

I am also interested in the following families:
  • BULSTRODE - One-Name Study - all locations and dates worldwide - see my other Guild profile: http://www.one-name.org/profiles/bulstrode.html
  • BOUSTRED - One-Name Study - all locations and dates worldwide - see my other Guild profile for more information on this name - http://www.one-name.org/profiles/boustred.html
  • ENGLAND, GELDER and TASKER in Pontefract, Yorkshire. My Gelders previously came from the area around Kellington and Snaith, also in Yorkshire
  • IREDALE, COCKER and MELLOR in the Halifax and Huddersfield area, Yorkshire
  • JOHNSON - specifically the descendants of Edward Lionel Johnson born c1808, Stepney, London - I am NOT doing a One-Name Study on the name Johnson!
  • KENDALL in Isleworth, Middlesex
  • ELWORTHY, BACK, TUCKETT and KELLAND within the triangle between Tiverton, Crediton and South Molton in Devon
  • MANLY in London, specifically those descended from Philip and Sally Manly and their son Berry Manly
  • FIRMIN and RUMBALL of Suffolk
I am not undertaking a One-Name Study on these names, although there are other Guild members who are researching some of them as their registered name.

Contact Details

Mrs Anni Berman

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Boustead in the Guild Indexes
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  • Global Marriages (public)  92
  • Global Marriages (members)* 93
  • Modern Newspaper Index  2
  • Datastores  3

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