The McGeachie Surname Forum

Statistics play a fair part in in the movement and migration of people and on being pointed to the website of the CASA http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/ I decided to type in McGeachie. The results sort of confirmed a theory I had been thinking and working on for some time using the MI records, that the name McGeachie was more prevalent surname in , Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and latterly Argyll.

Unfortunately at this time the profiler only uses two census years that of 1881 and 1998 hopefully they will push it back further in the future.



THE surname-profiling tool developed by Professor Paul Longley, Professor Richard Webber and PhD student Daryl Lloyd of the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Research Project of the Year Award.

The researchers, from the Spatial Literacy Team at CASA, devised a quantitative analysis of surnames from two snapshot years – 1881 and 1998 – to uncover the effects of migration and changes in the workforce on Britain’s social structure.

Most surnames in Britain are concentrated geographically. Mapping where they end up gave a unique picture of migration patterns across the UK and Ireland, while present-day data for each of the 25,000-plus surnames allowed the team to measure socioeconomic status and lifestyle.

Davy.