The Old Parish Registers cover the period from c. 1550 up to 1854.
The indexes here have been sorted by parents, in the case of Births, by forename in the case of Marriages, this was too allowing for easier checking.
Please note that due to spelling differences and the inclusion of frame references the sort isn't perfect.
The files have been stripped to the essentials, but even with that the Dun Births was almost too large to deal with, hence they have been divided into four sections divided alphabetically
A search can be made using Ctrl + f key (windows)
Dun is a comparatively rare name now in the UK; with only 129 appearing on the 2005 Electoral Roll.
It became clear that Dun had suffered the same fate as Ker and Scot with fashion adding an extra letter.
I was particularly interested in finding examples of when this change occurred – a comparison of births for the same family for Dun and Dunn show births being entered in the same family as Dun and Dunn with Dunn prevailing.
The graph shows male marriages from prior to 1700 to 1850 which clearliy shows this trend.
I would be interested to hear from anyone who has an example of this change in their family.
