The aim is to publish all I know about all the ADSHEADs in the World.
I have registered variants ADSHEAD:- ADSHADE, & ADSHED with the Guild
of One Name Studies:
See the Profile of the One-Name Study www.one-name.org/profiles/adshead
There is a Newsgroup for persons interested in sharing information on ADSHEADs by sending E-Mail to <adshead@yahoogroups.com but first you have to register with onelist by going to www.yahoogroups.com and registering under Adshead or click on the join button below. There is also a file area containing a growing set of files, listing ADSHEADs and other relevant information.
There is also a Newsgroup (not preferred) at www.ancestry.com. I don't like this because it suppresses the E-Mail origin of the contributors, who are thus unable to communicate privately. However some may prefer this level of anonymity.
There are roughly 1500 ADSHEADs Worldwide. Nearly 30% of these still live in the Stockport Cheshire area of England. It is fairly certain that the surname originated in North East Cheshire. My grandmother always suggested that the name was derived from "Adze-Head" - where an Adze is a form of Axe with its head at right angles to the shaft, suitable for cutting small branches off a tree trunk. However it is much more likely that the name originated from a farm possibly near Adlington or Adswood. I am sure many know a lot more about the origins that I do, and I am hoping to make contact with them as soon as possible.
ADSHEADs listed in the UK InfoDisc CDROM
ADSHEADs listed in the Burk's Peerage "World Book of Adsheads"
ADSHEADs listed in www.ancestry.com
ADSHEADs listed in The Tombstone Study of Cheshire Churchyards
ADSHEADs listed in the US Social Security Index
ADSHEADs who's wills are deposited in the Chester Records Office
ADSHEADs listed in the LDS CDROM of the UK 1881 Census
Updated 26 Jun 2007