Crymble, A;
(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.
10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | data mining, demographic history, London, quantitative history, surname |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10105667 |
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