London Names Map
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London Names Map
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#2Fascinating, but not especially surprising. Some references to eg major roads or borough boundaries would be really useful!
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#3Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
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#4Do the Indian and Bangladeshi communities have different customs regarding surnames that would lead to a more homogenous naming. Because the results seem disproportionate and shrink massively if you move the slider to the 2nd most popular name or further.
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#5Do the Indian and Bangladeshi communities have different customs regarding surnames that would lead to a more homogenous naming. Because the results seem disproportionate and shrink massively if you move the slider to the 2nd most popular name or further.
Informally, that seems to be true. See Patel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patel
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#6See if you can spot the Cohen island in N-NW London. I lived in that area for a bit, and around Golders Green and Stamford Hill there's a large Jewish community, many of them orthodox.
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#7Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
The nationalistic Welsh will tell you they are the real british people, but displaced and pushed westwards (into what is now Wales) by the Romans, Normans, Anglo Saxons etc. So a name might be mostly Welsh now, but the people with that name might have lived in that area for a very long time,
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#8Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
The nationalistic Welsh will tell you they are the real british people, but displaced and pushed westwards (into what is now Wales) by the Romans, Normans, Anglo Saxons etc. So a name might be mostly Welsh now, but the people with that name might have lived in that area for a very long time,
I'm not sure about this - first-century London was about the size of Hyde Park!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_London#First_century_AD
Edit - also, it appears that prior to the fifteenth century, the Welsh tended to use a patronymic naming system.
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#9Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
I'd guess it's because the welsh has a head start on migration of a few hundred years over the other groups on the chart.
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#10Fascinating, but not especially surprising. Some references to eg major roads or borough boundaries would be really useful!
The boundaries in the map are borough boundaries.
I found it interesting that a couple of zoom levels down, you can see a big cluster of Irish names on the Brent side of the Kilburn High Road, and another in W7.