Thursday, February 05, 2009

Pask, Paske & Pasque births (1916-2005)

As a follow-on from the recent blog titled England & Wales Births 1911-2005. The dates should read 1915-2005.

A quick search reveals that there are in the period 1916-2005

2,107 births, with the mother’s maiden name of PASK

283 births, with the mother’s maiden name of PASKE

41 births, with the mother’s maiden name of PASQUE

26 births, with the mother's maiden name of PARSK

this compares with

2,228 with the name of PASK

247 with the name of PASKE

67 with the name of PASQUE

29 with the name of PARSK


We are finding that there are a lot of names incorrectly listed as PACK, PARK, and PASH. These are incorrect in the original GRO indexes. We have not so far found a lot of incorrect transcripts of the indexes.