Pennyfather

Pennyfather One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Pennyfather

Variants: Penifather, Pennefather, Penneyfather, Pennifather, Pennyfeather

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

Guild hosted website: pennyfather.one-name.net

DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/groups/pennyfather/about

Legacy Guild website: pennyfather-2020.one-name.net

Contact: Mr Dennis Pennyfather

About the study

A 'One Name' study into the surname Pennyfather and associated variants. The study has a Facebook Page and a DNA project. Currently I have found 126 different ways the surname has been spelt or mis-spelt/transcribed

Some of the most common variants/spellings of this surname are: Pennefather, Penneyfather, Penifather, Pennifather, Pennyfeather. Penyfather, and Peniefather. These are just a few of the many ways of spelling the name found so far.

Variant names

The Pennyfather family shield/crest comes from a Pennyfather Grocer in London in the 1600's, and only applies to that branch of the family and its descendants, although most including myself use it in my research correspoondence.

Name origin

The meaning of the name is: 'penny-father', a miser, pinch-pennie, scrape-good and niggard.

An old couplet says:

The liberal doth spend his pelfe,
The pennyfather wastes himself.

Name frequency

The appearances of the variants in the 1881 census for England and Wales are:

Pennyfather = 87
Pennefather = 35
Pennyfeather = 17
Pennifather = 13
Pennefether = 2
Pennyferther = 1
Pennyfether = 1
Penniefother = 1

Distribution of the name

The main areas found for Pennyfather are Staffordshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Essex, Bedfordshire and London/Middlesex.

Data

The Pennyfather One Name Study website contains the following:
a) family trees of researchers
b) complete transcription of the births, marriages and deaths index for England and Wales from 1837-2005
c) Parish Records & Bishops Transcripts

d) Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates

DNA

There is a DNA study as part of this research but very little has been done on this so far.

Links

DNA Project Website
Facebook Group

Contact Details

Mr Dennis Pennyfather

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Pennyfather in the Guild Indexes

(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)

Global Marriages 36
Datastores 659

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