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Samuel
Merrill, 1928, reprint 1983
Merrill:
the Name and Its Variations - Chapter II,
pp17-27
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION
The
figures given in the accompanying table show the relative
frequency of the name in this country, under its various
modes of spelling. The figures are taken from the directories
of the several cities, none of which are of earlier date
than 1916. No directories include the names of all the
inhabitants, and in most such books the names of some
non-residents are included. No better way can be easily
found, however, for ascertaining, in general terms, the
numerical strength of the family in various sections.
Included
in the suburbs of Boston in the table are Brookline, Cambridge,
Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Newton, Quincy and
Somerville. These eight cities and Brookline (“the
richest town in America”), are all within eight miles
of Boston Common. They had in 1915 an aggregate population
of 473,513, and no one of the nine places has less than
30,000 inhabitants.
The
figures for New York include only the boroughs of Manhattan
and the Bronx. In a Brooklyn directory for 1912 Merrill
appeared 41 times, Merrell 6 times and Merrall
once.
In
the forty-five directories represented in the table Merle
appears 60 times, Merl 8 times, Morrall
12 times, Morrell and Morrel, (including
some of Italian origin), 431 times, Morrill 617
times, and Murrell (Murrel and Murrill)
148 times. The Morrills are relatively much more
numerous in New England than in any other section. Only
seven Murrells (Murrels and Murrills)
are found in the New England directories. Twenty-six persons
bearing this name in some form are listed in Louisville,
of whom 10 are marked with a small c, to indicate
that they have African blood. Meril, Merilh
and Merriall appear once each in these directories,
but these may be typographical errors.
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ENGLAND |
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Boston |
234
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do., suburbs |
166
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Portland |
123
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Manchester |
49
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Newburyport |
38
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Haverhill |
48
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Lowell |
56
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Lynn |
58
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Worchester |
28
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Springfield |
27
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Providence |
27
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Hartford |
22
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New
Haven |
18
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| MIDDLE ATLANTIC |
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New
York |
106
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Buffalo |
17
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Rochester |
12
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Philadelphia |
38
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Pittsburg |
12
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Baltimore |
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Dist. Columbia |
35
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Cleveland |
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Cincinnati |
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Detroit |
80
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Indianapolis |
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Chicago |
129
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Milwaukee |
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Minneapolis |
61
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St.
Paul |
32
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St.
Louis |
41
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| SOUTHERN
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Louisville |
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Atlanta |
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Orleans |
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| PACIFIC
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Denver |
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San
Francisco |
34
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Los
Angeles |
103
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Seattle |
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| CANADA |
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Montreal |
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Totals
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1,756
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134
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