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Migration

Boyce, A J. Migration and mobility: Biosocial aspects of human movement. London: Taylor and Francis, 1984.

Bukatzsch, E. "The constancy of local populations and migration in England Before 1800." Population Studies 8(1951): 62-69.

Clark, Peter and David Souden. Migration and society in early Modern England. London: Hutchinon, 1987.

Coleman, D. A. "Marital Choice and geographical mobility." Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology 23(1984): 29-34.
Abstract: Lawson2: "pp29-34 give evidence for surname analysis from parish registers from Suffolk as early as 1600 to show that previous scholars underestimated the amount of English geographical mobility"

________. "Study of migration and marriage in Reading,England." Journal of Biosocial Science 11(1979).

Crosby, A. G. "Migration to Preston in the Fourteenth Century: the Evidence of Surnames." Lancashire Local Historian, no. 8.

Darlu, Pierre, Anna Degioanni, and G. Zei. "Patronymes et migration dans les populations humaines." In: Analyse Spatiale De Donnees Biodemographiques, 2225-253. Paris: J. Libbey, 1996.

Kent, J. R. "Population mobility and alms : Poor migrants in the Midlands during the early seventeenth century." Local Population Studies, no. 27 (1981).

Longley, P., Webber, R. and Lloyd,D. ‘The quantitative analysis of family names : historic migration and the present day neighbourhood structure of Middlesbrough, United Kingdom”
Notes: Spatial Literacy Paper :1 – available Online

McClure, Peter. "Patterns of migration in the late Middle Ages : the Evidence of English Place-Name Surnames." Economic History Review, no. 32 (1979): 167-82.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Suggests that placename surnames give an indication of the patterns of migration for social betterment. 7 refs."

________ "Surnames from English placenames as evidence for mobility in the Middle Ages." The Local Historian 13, no. 2(1978).
Abstract: Lawson1: "discussion of some of the difficulties and their resolution of using surnames as evidence of mobility"

Miles, A. Occupational and social mobility in England, 1839-1914. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Abstract: "the first systematic historical analysis of occupational and social mobility in England, using a collection of over 10,000 marriage certificates to examine inter-generational change"

Piazza, A. and others. "Migration rates of human populations from surname distribution." Nature 329, no. 6141 (1987): 714-16.

Pooley, C. G. and J. Turnbull. "Migration & Mobility in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth Century." Local Population Studies 57 (Autumn 1996): 50-71.

Saitoh, N. "An attempt to estimate the migration pattern in Japan by surname data." Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon 91, no. 3(1983): 309-22.
Notes: In Japanese?

Wallwork, S. "Allowing for migration in estimating early population levels." Local Population Studies , no. 56(Spring 1996): 30-42.

Webster, Warwick. "Migration trends in Staffordshire from the late thirteenth Century to the early fourteenth century (1250-1350), As Evidenced by Place-Name Surnames." University Of Birmingham, 1984.

Wyatt, G. "Population change and stability in a Cheshire parish during the eighteenth century." Local Population Studies, no. 43 (1989): 47-54.
Abstract: "Migration and stability of population are examined here principally through the study of surnames. Migration and stability are detected in three different ways: from changes in the local stock of surnames from the continuity of families through successive generations; and through the provenance of marriage partners. Nantwich, a parish in south Cheshire, has been chosen for this study"

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