Adey Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Stephen Adey [send private message]

About the Project

The Adey Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Adey name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Adey name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Adey's), by time period (18th Century Adey's), or by topic (Adey DNA, Adey Occupations, Adey Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Adey Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Stephen Adey for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Adey Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Methodology

The general research methodology so far has been to capture all likely instances of the surname(s), and make them easily available for analysis. Since the surname is not very rare, it is not desirable to follow some other genealogy websites and create profiles for every mention of the name. Indeed, it is generally desirable to use the sources to expand known families, by adding individual profiles with well documented relationships.

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Space:ADEY Family Origins
• Space:ADEY research notes, Gloucestershire England
• Space:ADEY research notes, Hampshire England
• Space:ADEY research notes, Newfoundland Colony
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of ADEY profiles on WikiTree
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of Adey Family profiles on WikiTree website (may be a duplicate?)
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of Adey Family Trees on FamilySearch website
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of Adey and variant Surnames in 1881 Census UK
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of The Adey Family from Painswick website
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of Adey Family on Turnbull Clan website
• Space:Steve Adey analysis of Adey Family Tree on Will of Jehovah website

Membership

Interested, just add your name to the list!

• Steve Adey

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Addy
• Adey
• Adye

There are a large number of infrequent spellings of possibly related surnames, but (based on frequency in Hampshire) these are my current focus of attention. I have also seen stated that the surname EDDY is related to ADEY, but that possibly related variant is explicitly excluded from the current study, which only covers the A300 Soundex variants. However, feel free to start up a separate (but related) One Name Study to cover the E300 Soundex variants.