Sainsbury Name Study

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Surname/tag: Sainsbury

Status

In Wikitree, there are currently 831 profiles for Sainsbury, Sansbury has 190, Sandsberry has 16, Simsbury has 10, Saintsbury has 7 and Sandsbury has 5 profiles. Some are well connected, others less so, and none as far as I am aware trace back to the beginning - wherever that may be - of the name.

Join the teams and complete the network.

About this Project

The Sainsbury Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Sainsbury 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 Sainsbury 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 Sainsbury's), by time period (18th Century Sainsbury's), or by topic (Sainsbury DNA, Sainsbury Occupations, Sainsbury 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.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Sainsbury 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: Andrew Twohig MA, CSRA for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Also, in the list of categories, team members should add the Sainsbury Name Study category to their profile.

Usage of Stickers and Categories

Until the Sainsbury Name develops a suitable outline on Wikitree, the Name Study sticker and category remain the only markers for Sainsbury. However, these should not be used for every Sainsbury and associated profiles, as not every Sainsbury profile needs be in the study at any given time. Thus, below are suggested guidance by this Sainsbury Name Study only for usage of the sticker and category, such guidance is not given by Wikitree itself, that I can find. This guidance can be amended, from time to time.

The Sainsbury Name Study Category should be added as a category:

• A) For all Sainsbury Name Study Team members.
• B) Adds this surname as a start point or end point to a lineage tree (and thus needs attention).
• C) If there is no profile manager.
• D) If the profile has a Research Box.
• E) Is under active research by Sainsbury Name Study.

Sainsbury Name Study Sticker usage guidance

• A) Serves to highlight an important fact about a person as he/she applies to the study of the name in the context of Wikitree, or otherwise.
• B) Adds this surname as a start point or end point to a lineage tree (and thus needs attention).
• C) Serves as a branching outwards or inwards of the surname.
• D) If there is an isolated no profile manager, or the head of a lineage of no profile managers.
• E) If the profile has a Research Box.
• F) Is under active research by a project or Sainsbury Name Study.

If you come across a Sainsbury profile with any of these characteristics, feel free to add either or both the sticker or the category.

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages and regional nexus included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help on each and all of the teams!

• Name Origin, as perhaps from Saintbury, Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England
• Sainsbury Heraldry and Imagery
• Regional Nexus
  • The East Wessex Corridor
    • Wiltshire Nexus ---------------------- Mike Sainsbury
    • Gloucestershire Nexus
    • Hampshire Nexus
    • Somerset Nexus
  • Newfoundland ---------------------------- Andrew Twohig
  • Canada
  • United States of America
  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Membership

• Andrew Twohig

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Sansbury
• Sandsberry
• Saintsbury
• Sandsbury

Of the other spellings found easily on-line, Sansbery, Sainsburry, Samtsbry and Samsburey seem to be just temporary mis-spellings. Sandbury seems to be only a name of Sandbury Moor, West Dorset, UK. Samsbury seems to be a mis-spelling in America and the one usage found on Wikitree Gospatrick de Samsbury is traceable to perhaps an intentional mis-spelling to denote the "first known Lord of this Manor [of Samlesbury]".

Input into this section is welcome.