Plimsoll Name Study
Location: England
Surnames/tags: Plimsoll Plimsole Plimsaul
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The Plimsoll Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Plimsoll name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Plimsoll name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Plimsolls), by time period (18th Century Plimsolls), or by topic (Plimsoll DNA, Plimsoll Occupations, Plimsoll Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
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How to Join
To join the Plimsoll Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Steve Bartlett for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. We'll be working on them, and could use your help!
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plimsoll-44 - Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824 - 1898) - the 19th Century campaigner whose efforts led to the introduction of the 'Plimsoll Line', an initiative that saved tens of thousands of lives at sea
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plimsoll-44 - Why were plimsoll shoes (aka gym shoes) supposedly named after Samuel Plimsoll?
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plimsoll-28 - see Research Note on the possible Huguenot origin of the Plimsolls - Were the Plimsolls descended descended from the Huguenots, French Protestants who had fled to England to escape persecution?Italic text
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plimsole-4 - earliest recorded Plimsoles in Chudleigh, Devon
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Sixty years later, having just read Nicholette Jones's excellent biography of Samuel Plimsoll ('The Plimsoll Sensation'), I decided to investigate the family tree, not least to see if what I had been told was correct. It was! Raymond's grandfather had been a cousin of Samuel Plimsoll - i.e. they shared the same grandfather John Plimsoll (b. 1740) (although we're descended from his first wife Anne and Samuel was descended from his second wife Grace).
(However, another story my grandfather told me about how we were supposedly related to Johann Sebastian Bach through the Bache side of the family would seem to be just a family myth!)