What English counties do you have research interests in? Poll

Here are the results of our 29th Unlock the Past poll - What English counties do you have ancestors from - or research interests in? Votes were cast by 383 people. The results are summarised in the table below.

There are several non-English locations listed (e.g. Channel Islands) but it was felt important to capture the interest there as well.

Only 0.5% indicated they had no research interests in England.

The percentage of people with interest in the various counties is heavily dependent on their size - the bigger counties reflecting that with more people having research interests there. Other factors are important too - Lancashire, as well as being large, had many distressed cotton operatives emigrate and Cornwall though comparatively much smaller had many miners leave England. The largest interest is in London (42.3%) and Middlesex (33.9%) with Yorkshire (32.9%) and Lancashire (31.9%) not far behind. The county with the smallest percentage of voters is, not surprisingly, Rutlandshire with just 1.8% of voters indicating a research interest.

Where the voters came from

• Australia - 329
• Canada - 2
• Hong Kong - 1
• India - 1
• Italy - 1
• Netherlands - 1
• New Zealand - 8
• United Kingdom - 3
• Unknown - 37

Other comments

• Dover 1841 (hundreds)
• North Wales
• Flintshire
• Ireland
• Scotland
• County Tyrone