A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London

Crymble, Adam (2015) A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 48 (3). pp. 141-152. ISSN 0161-5440

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Historians seeking to identify the Irish have overwhelmingly relied upon nominal record linkage, thus limiting studies to periods and contexts in which corroborating records exist. Surname analysis provides an alternative: a subset of 283 Irish surnames was able to correctly isolate 40 percent of known Irish individuals across thousands of entries, which is sufficient for sampling the Irish in demographic studies. This conclusion was based on an analysis of 278,949 names from the London area in the 1841 census, and was tested and refined against 42,248 historical records pertaining to the poor in London between 1777 and 1820.

Item Type	Article
Additional information	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History', on 16 July 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194.
Keywords	data mining, demographic history, london, quantitative history, surname
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 12:56
Last Modified	04 Jun 2025 17:03