England, Irving names distribution

Date: 24 Sep 2021 [unknown]
Location: England
Surnames/tags: England IRVING England and Scotland are the source of the name Irving. By examination of various genealogical sources it should be possible to determine the most obvious location from where the name originated.

Contents 1 Irving name distribution within Genealogical sources. 2 England BMD source for the surname Irving 3 BMD Analysis 4 England Census source for the surname Irving 5 Census Analysis 6 England Parish Register source for the surname Irving 7 Parish Reregister Analysis 8 Conclusion for England data

Irving name distribution within Genealogical sources.

Country	Parish Records	BMD	Census	Burials	Personal Databases
England	2.265	40,423	6,580	1,992	21,184
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0
Islands	2	0	1	0	0
Scotland	393	0	3,677	1,346	47,568
Wales	104	1,092	30	0	0

• Parish Records taken from /www.freecen.org.uk. This is incomplete.
• BMD Births, Marriages and Deaths taken from www,freebmd.org.uk
• Census England and Wales only, taken from www,freece,org,uk. This is incomplete. Census figures show the number of individual Irving records for that census year. Therefore the same family groups will be repeated.
• Burials taken from www.findagrave.com. This is incomplete.
• Personal Database. Everything related to Irving's entered into these databases. Name variations are included in this count.

• Islands are Aldreney, Gurnsey, Jersey, Isle of Man and Sark.

• Data last Updated 20 September 2021 by Bill Irving (IRVING-332).

England BMD source for the surname Irving

Method: Use the count function with the surname name as Irving and selecting each county.

Every quarter since September 1837 registration districts in England and Wales have sent their new registrations through the Genral Registration Office (GRO). There, the staff compile all the births into national indexes. Mar 1864 covers all births between January and March 1864. These books are called by the last month of the quarter: Mar, Jun, Sept and Dec.

Births are registered with the District Registrar of the area where they occurred, which may not be the parent’s normal residence. The birth has to be registered within 42 days or with penalties, within 6 months or not at all. In order to avoid paying a penalty, some parents reported an incorrect date of birth. Many parents were unaware of the legal requirement to register a birth and simply thought that a baptism recorded in the church register was a legal alternative to registration. Until 1874 the onus was on the District Registrar to collect this information. This means that there may be late registration or a total omission to register. It is estimated that between 1837 and 1875 up to 15% of births were not registered.

County	1837-39	1840-49	1850-59	1860-69	1870-79	1880-89	1890-99	1900-09	1910-19	1920-29	1930-39	1940-49	Total
Bedford	0	0	1	4	3	14	7	8	21	20	17	96	191
Berkshire	7	28	21	15	31	42	25	31	24	37	42	52	355
Buckingham	4	24	19	16	17	19	26	56	34	38	33	36	322
Cambridge	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	2	2	5	12	26
Cheshire	5	17	30	50	62	60	87	111	120	130	121	151	944
Cornwall	0	0	1	0	0	8	12	4	3	1	2	6	37
Cumberland	196	958	1104	1213	1316	1280	1247	1045	1024	986	818	806	11,993
Derbyshire	3	10	8	28	24	22	39	45	18	45	33	51	326
Devon	2	1	9	6	5	10	6	4	14	28	20	29	134
Dorset	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	1	1	6	9	13	36
Durham	15	74	103	160	272	328	348	441	479	447	334	332	3,333
East Yorkshire	8	36	26	32	28	37	34	53	46	55	59	37	451
Essex	0	0	0	11	17	25	45	61	49	85	05	78	476
Gloucester	2	11	12	21	20	25	9	18	21	19	25	20	213
Hampshire	1	6	6	7	26	14	8	18	48	38	35	52	269
Hereford	0	2	1	7	3	0	0	1	3	3	2	5	27
Hertford	0	3	6	0	6	9	14	22	21	33	62	68	244
Huntungdon	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	2	2	4	9	22
Kent	4	18	32	42	61	58	51	74	104	94	107	103	748
Lancashire	70	409	497	584	702	781	846	847	767	781	672	786	7,742
Leicestershire	1	6	11	7	9	4	11	3	2	5	18	27	104
Lincolnshire	1	11	9	4	20	19	18	14	107	2	31	28	27
Middlesex	18	108	117	98	129	186	193	193	175	159	224	217	1,817
Norfolk	0	0	2	2	1	1	4	3	8	0	4	8	33
North Yorkshire	9	23	27	37	45	43	30	67	71	69	85	77	583
Northampton	3	6	12	5	1	9	13	17	5	8	23	20	122
Northumberland	14	104	102	208	226	245	306	414	423	447	406	427	3,322
Nottingham	1	23	10	19	23	15	32	23	11	19	29	44	249
Oxfordshire	8	30	22	16	19	23	19	50	23	20	34	44	308
Rutland	1	4	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	12
Shropshire	1	11	15	10	22	13	9	14	24	18	16	20	173
Somerset	2	3	2	1	3	6	4	2	3	4	10	12	52
Staffordshire	1	11	17	34	41	37	39	46	40	63	49	49	427
Suffolk	0	1	3	15	6	9	8	11	7	8	10	26	104
Surrey	5	28	37	42	74	78	80	94	84	99	80	116	817
Sussex	1	9	10	12	26	21	24	28	43	23	44	51	292
Warwickshire	1	5	9	43	32	55	56	51	61	69	93	115	600
West Yorkshire	20	97	144	119	242	264	294	291	306	297	323	337	2.734
Westmorland	11	52	52	57	39	59	53	53	27	19	41	30	493
Wiltshire	0	5	1	3	7	13	5	5	6	8	13	16	82
Worcestershire	0	0	7	14	5	6	2	20	18	12	15	12	121

BMD Irving data for Cumberland.

County District	1837-39	1840-49	1850-59	1860-69	1870-79	1880-89	1890-99	1900-09	1910-19	1920-29	1930-39	1940-49	Total
Alston	1	3	10	8	8	6	8	7	2	5	6	2	66
Bootle	0	1	2	2	19	14	15	9	16	21	15	0	114
Brampton	11	47	65	83	56	53	66	37	41	53	16	0	528
Carlisle	67	300	388	402	457	465	484	468	440	393	359	1324	4,547
Cockermouth	23	165	206	254	318	285	274	255	235	237	182	148	2,582
Longtown	30	168	153	132	114	97	94	52	45	41	32	0	958
Penrith	14	64	81	91	100	88	61	41	55	59	43	47	744
Whitehaven	14	37	26	74	117	143	115	100	106	107	74	101	1,014
WIgton	36	173	173	167	127	129	130	76	84	70	67	64	1,96

Data last Updated 20 September 2021 by Bill Irving (IRVING-332).

Civil Registration index information for England and Wales, controlled by the General Register Office. The GRO index has an entry for each event (Birth, Marriage or Death) that has been registered. This is available online through www.freebmd.org.uk. Therefore each person can have 3 counts: Birth, Marriage and Death.

FreeBMD transcribes the indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Each entry in these indexes contains the name of the Registration District where the event was registered. Knowing this district is important for obtaining a copy of a certificate of the event.

A Registration District is not the same as the town of the same name. The main register office is likely to be in the town with the name of the Registration District the area covered by the Registration District will be much larger than the town and may even cross county boundaries. Information on the current and historic districts for England and Wales, including dates of creation, changes and abolition, can be found on the UKBMD website, in particular there are links to an Alphabetical List of Districts, which gives links to details of registration districts, and an Index of Place Names (1837-1974), which enables the registration district of a particular place to be found. The GENUKI website contains gazetteers that give geographical information that may help you to find the Registration District for a particular location.

The count for these Registration Districts is slightly different from the collective count for the county. At various times boundary location changes have taken place and new districts created when population pressures required local county governance changes.

BMD Analysis

The Counties with the largest number of Irvings are:

• Cumberland 11,933
• Lancashire 7.742
• Durham 3,333
• Northumberland 3,322
• West Riding of Yorkshire 2,734
• Middlesex 1,817

I think Middlesex can be discounted as this county incorporates London.

The overriding impression is that all these counties are in the North of England. The greatest number being in the North West.

Cumberland has the largest number of Irving's in these Registration Districts:

• Carlisle 4,547
• Cockermouth 2,582
• Wigton 1,296
• Whitehaven 1,014

Again the North West of the County. The largest is Carlisle which has a boarder with Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

England Census source for the surname Irving

Method: Using Irving as the Surname; birth year as 1750 to 1920; Birth County = All Counties; Select the county of the census; Select the year of the census; then search. A count of all the records for that census year appears at the top of the results page.

The UK census system started in 1801 and is repeated every 10 years, except for 1941. Names only start to appear from 1841. The age of each person is recorded. This allows an approximate year of birth to be found but discretion should be used as to how accurate this date is. Additionally parents and siblings names are given along with the birth county/Country.

County	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	Total
Bedford	10	4	0	0	4	8	9	18	53
Berkshire	30	21	12	9	27	23	21	20	163
Buckingham	4	5	4	0	6	25	'24	32	100
Cambridge	1	3	4	1	2	6	0	1	18
Channel Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cheshire	29	22	30	50	62	60	87	174	514
Cornwall	1	0	10	10	4	0	10	6	21
Cumberland	1,384	1,522	1,442	773	1,819	2,056	1,729	1,920	12,645
Derbyshire	9	2	17	16	21	23	24	16	128
Devon	4	6	5	4	18	17	8	14	76
Dorset	8	1	6	9	2	0	3	7	36
Durham	77	85	105	215	287	371	2,448	1,048	4,636
East Yorkshire	0	30	32	22	14	7	30	50	185
Essex	0	3	0	11	20	13	68	82	97
Gloucester	8	8	6	0	15	0	30	35	102
Hampshire	0	0	12	0	19	26	28	49	124
Hereford	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hertford	0	7	9	0	0	0	3	0	19
Huntungdon	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	9	0	1	0	6	21	26	0	63
Kent	1	25	9	24	81	6	34	34	213
Lancashire	421	422	553	289	886	313	1,219	1,249	5,352
Leicestershire	3	3	9	1	7	4	6	7	40
Lincolnshire	2	10	13	14	25	30	37	22	143
London	26	0	61	0	246	39	312	389	1,072
Middlesex	94	111	117	72	236	5	188	91	824
Norfolk	0	0	1	3	2	2	9	4	21
North Yorkshire	0	0	25	10	0	1	0	0	36
Northampton	40	7	3	0	0	0	13	8	71
Northumberland	69	73	135	76	265	0	0	734	1,352
Nottingham	11	8	19	24	15	20	16	22	92
Oxfordshire	14	24	13	20	20	17	26	41	178
Rutland	3	5	8	0	0	1	1	1	19
Shropshire	0	9	1	0	0	0	1	4	15
Somerset	1	2	5	4	2	11	4	5	33
Staffordshire	0	10	34	2	0	14	51	47	101
Suffolk	0	5	19	8	0	9	11	18	70
Surrey	0	41	40	11	99	0	66	62	319
Sussex	0	18	10	15	39	45	49	53	229
Warwickshire	2	10	24	9	56	71	'78	75	315
West Yorkshire	0	91	140	159	71	35	12	1	509
Westmorland	110	82	71	76	103	0	109	84	635
Wiltshire	1	0	1	3	17	5	3	9	39
Worcestershire	3	'2	1	5	9	3	21	32	149

Census transcriptions onto the Internet are not complete. If a record shows 0 this may indicate that no transcriptions have been completed.

Source used is Free UK Genealogy. “FreeCEN.” Last modified [17 September 2021]. Accessed [25 September 1021]. https://www.freecen.org.uk

Bold indicates that 100% of census record has been transcribed.

Source used is Family Search and appears as Italic. There is no indication if the transcriptions are complete.

Data last Updated 17 March 2022 by Bill Irving (IRVING-332).

Census Analysis

The Counties with the largest number of Irvings are:

• Cumberland 12,645
• Lancashire 5,352
• Durham 1,990
• Northumberland, 1,352

There is insufficient evidence from the Census data to reach any conclusion. Currently the highest numbers are in the North of England. Cumberland would appear to to be the Source of Irving's within England.

England Parish Register source for the surname Irving

Method: Using Irving as the Surname; First year as 1500 .last Year as 1950; Select the county of the Parish Record; Record Type = All three types; then search. A count of all the records appears at the top of the results page.

Parish registers started in England and Wales in 1538, In Scotland in 1558 and in Ireland in 1634. There is a gap between 1645 and 1660 due to the Civil War. Parish registers have births, marriages and deaths recorded in the same register until 1753 after which in England and Wales these are recorded in separate registers. Prior to 1813 baptisms usually include date, names of each child and names of parents, occasionally their residence and father’s occupation.

County	1500 -1599	1600-1699	1700-1799	1800-1899	1900-1950	Total	Notes
Bedford	0	0	0	0	0	0	No parishes listed
Berkshire	0	0	1	0	0	1
Buckingham	0	0	3	19	1	23
Cambridge	0	0	2	0	2	3
Channel Islands	0	0	0	2	0	2	No parishes listed
Cheshire	0	0	0	1	0	1
Cornwall	0	0	3	8	1	12
Cumberland	0	0	82	246	7	335
Derbyshire	0	0	0	21	4	25
Devon	0	0	0	1	1	2
Dorset	0	0	0	0	0	0
Durham	0	0	16	53	0	69
East Yorkshire	0	0	0	3	0	3
Essex	0	0	1	13	2	16
Gloucester	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hampshire	0	0	1	1	0	2
Hereford	0	0	0	0	0	0	No parishes listed
Hertford	0	0	2	3	1	6
Huntungdon	0	0	0	1	0	1
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0	No parishes listed
Kent	0	0	8	72	32	112
Lancashire	0	0	78	687	166	932
Leicestershire	0	0	0	1	1	2
Lincolnshire	0	0	4	'69	11	84
London	0	1	13	6	0	20
Middlesex	0	0	15	8	0	23
Norfolk	0	3	10	8	2	23
North Yorkshire	0	0	16	32	1	19
Northampton	0	0	6	13	2	21
Northumberland	0	0	15	156	44	215
Nottingham	0	0	2	34	0	36
Oxfordshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	Only 3 parishes listed
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shropshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somerset	0	0	6	17	2	25
Staffordshire	0	0	1	90	12	103
Suffolk	0	0	1	2	0	3
Surrey	0	0	4	5	0	9
Sussex	0	0	5	35	1	41
Warwickshire	0	1	2	10	2	15
West Yorkshire	0	0	0	42	0	42
Westmorland	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wiltshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Worcestershire	0	0	0	2	8	10

Source: Free UK Genealogy. “FreeREG.” Last modified [26 September 2021]. Accessed [26 September 2021]. https://www.freereg.org.uk

Counties and their Place names are based on:

• The digital Gazetteer published by the Association of British Counties (link opens in a new tab), eBook and Data Extract (Oct 2013)
• The 1834 Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales: Counties and Places, by James Bell
• Phillimore's Atlas of pre-1832 parishes.

Data last Updated 26 September 2021 by Bill Irving (IRVING-332).

Parish Reregister Analysis

The Counties with the largest number of Irvings are:

• Lancashire 932
• Cumberland 335
• Northumberland 215

There is no recorded method of identifying if the Parish Record transcriptions are complete. Therefore all records may not be included.

There is insufficient evidence from the Parish Registers data to reach any conclusion. Currently the highest numbers are in the North of England

Conclusion for England data

From the currently available data for England the name IRVING originates in the North of England. Most probably in Cumberland.