Elgey Name Study

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Surnames/tags: Elgey Elgy Elgee

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1 How to Join
2 Goals
3 Adding profiles to the study
4 Name variations
5 Locations
- 5.1 United Kingdom
- 5.2 Around the World

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Janet Wild or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Research Question

How far and wide did the Elgey name travel and what Counties, States or Countries did they settle in?

Links to pages of Interest

Elgey

Task List

Start to link into the community - post in G2G Done

Join up the branches around the world

Start with the branches in the English counties

Australia as part of my family

Ask other folk around the world to review the names in their country

Adding profiles to the study

The following is the link to the main category page for this study Click Here

Name variations

Elgey has been spelled many different ways, before English spelling became standardized over the last few hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Many variations of the name Elgey have been found, including Elgy, Elgee, the main variation found in my Janet (Langridge) Wild branch of the tree is Elgy

Locations

Believed the name originates in the border regions of Northumberland / Scotland

United Kingdom

Northumberland - Believed to be the originating county for the name

Durham

Cornwall

Around the World

Australia - Aunt Ruth moved here but she had married and surname was Rowley