Matheson's revised surname report

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Many family historians have heard of Matheson's surname list developed from births in 1890 in Ireland. Available online in
the Internet Archives collection (texts donated by universities and libraries for the public's use) is a 1901 revision of that
work. Here is Matheson's introduction to the revision:

"The First Edition of this book was issued in the year 1890 with the object of assisting Registration Officers and the Public searching the Indexes of Births, Deaths, and Marriages by collating the varieties in the form and spelling of names usually met with, and also those names differing altogether in form, which had been ascertained to be used interchangeably.

A careful note has been made during the decade of cases where additional varieties or peculiarities in Surnames and Christian names have come under notice in this Office, or have been reported by local Officers.
...
Robert E. Matheson, Registrar-General"

Here is the title and link (although for seeing surnames as printed, you likely want to use a different format than the one appearing with this link:
Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland for the Guidance of Registration Officers and the Public in Searching the Indexes of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
by Robert E. Matheson

http://www.archive.org/stream/varieties ... h_djvu.txt


posted by Sharon Carberry