Audsley One-Name Study

The Audsley Surname Resource Centre

Audsley Family Distribution

The following analyses of Audsley residences around the worls was taken from 'The World Book of Audsleys', published in 1996. Although this cannot be regarded as a definitive list of where all the Audsley families were located it does provide a reasonable proxy measure of the surname's world distribution at that time.

Country	County/State	No. of Residences
England	Bedfordshire	2
	Berkshire	1
	Buckinghamshire	1
	Cambridgeshire	3
	Cheshire	6
	Cleveland	1
	Cornwall	1
	Derbyshire	2
	Dorset	1
	East Sussex	2
	Essex	2
	Hampshire	6
	Isle of Wight	1
	Kent	10
	Lancashire	12
	Leicestershire	1
	London	10
	Merseyside	3
	Middlesex	1
	Norfolk	3
	North Humberside	14
	North Yorkshire	23
	Northamptonshire	1
	Northumberland	7
	Somerset	3
	South Humberside	4
	South Yorkshire	1
	Suffolk	1
	Surrey	13
	Warwickshire	1
	West Midlands	4
	West Yorkshire	101
	Wiltshire	1
	Worcestershire	2
	Total	245

Scotland	Dumfriesshire	1
	Midlothian	2
	Stirlingshire	1
	West Lothian	2
	Total	6

Wales	Clwyd	2
	Mid Glamorgan	2
	South Glamorgan	1
	Total	5

Australia	Capital Territory	2
	New South Wales	33
	Queensland	10
	Victoria	18
	Western Australia	6
	Total	69

Canada	Alberta	1
	Ontario	7
	Total	8

Germany		1
	Total	1

Ireland	Wexford	1
	Total	1

Isle of Mann		1
	Total	1

New Zealand		3
	Total	3

USA	Arizona	4
	California	1
	Colorado	1
	Florida	3
	Georgia	1
	Idaho	1
	Iowa	7
	Maine	1
	Maryland	1
	Massachusetts	1
	Missouri	21
	Nebraska	3
	New York	3
	Oregon	1
	Pennsylvania	2
	South Carolina	1
	Vermont	2
	Total	54

	International Total	393

Clearly, the above table indicates that the Audsley name continues to be most strongly represented in England, and within this country there continued to be a strong tendancy for families to have remained relatively close to their West Riding of Yorkshire roots. Many county boundaries have changed significantly over the years and new English counties have also been created for administrative purposes. The total Audsley residences for 'old Yorkshire', which would be approximately:

North Yorkshire	23
South Yorkshire	1
West Yorkshire	101
Cleveland	1
North Humberside	14
Total Residences	140

represented 54.5% of the UK residences and 35.6% of the whole world population listed.

Other key locations around the World where there was some concentration of the Audsley family name, include the US State of Missouri (21) and the Australian States of New South Wales (33) and Victoria (18), to which members of Audsley families are known to have emigrated in the mid-19th century.

The 1996 residence listing suggests a number of single member households, i.e. unmarried women, widows etc., and therefore, assuming:

an overall average of 3 - 4 Audsley family members per household listed; and
that the listing is reasonable comprehensive, which cross checks against available Telephone Directories and also UK Electoral Registers suggest could be the case,

it would indicate there may have been a World population of between 1200 and 1600 carriers of the Audsley surname at the time.