STEERS

Here's a quick link list to all the blogs I have done thus far about the STEERS peeps. From here you'll also be able to keep up to date with posts made over at the STEERS ONS Blog.


08 August 2011: Discovering the size of the STEERS ONS
....The Guild of One Name Stuides WiKi defines the size of a study by the number of entries in the 1881 England and Wales Census. The size is defined as....




11 July 2011: An Overdue Update
....So what have you been doing with yourself I hear you ask....


15 June 2011: Focus On - Maria STEERS
....Maria worked as a needlewoman, an embroidress and a braider. This was an acceptable occupation for a woman in Victorian England. Whilst the family appeared to move around the Bethnal Green and Shoreditch areas of London....

28 May 2011: Starting to Build a Baseline
....The first was identifying how many STEERS and STEARS births, marriages and deaths were registered. I did this using FreeBMD's "download" function. Once I downloaded the data I moved it into a spreadsheet and tidied it up by separating the data into the following headings....


21 May 2011; Origin of the Surname
This week I’ve mostly been looking at the origin of the name STEERS.
The following sources have been used ...

15 May 2011; Well that's gone and done it!
...Now as some of you already know I've already started looking into his dim and distant past and traced them back to Hull, where apparently they appeared from thin air. So to get around this I started to collect information about any and all STEERS...

19 April 2011; Tombstone Tuesday - All Saint's Edmonton, London
On Saturday I dragged the OH to All Saint's Church in Edmonton where his 3x Great Grandmother, Maria Steers was buried on 19 December 1881...

13 February 2011; Plan for my days off; STEERS
I've booked myself two days off work so this Monday or Tuesday I will be going along to the London Metropolitan Archives in Farringdon to have a look for some STEERS


In 1881 Maria STEERS (nee UNKNOWN) was resident at St. Bernard’s Hospital; Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum; better known as Hanwell....