The Quail Family History

This is a site where you can find information about the history of the Quail family.

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The Quail Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Quail
1841 Census 105
1851 Census 176
1861 Census 170
1871 Census 203
1891 Census 258

Most Frequent Forenames for the Quail Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
JOHN Quail 9 12 18 16 13
WILLIAM Quail 6 10 14 13 16
THOMAS Quail 5 9 8 11 12
MARY Quail 11 11 6 6 6
ELIZABETH Quail 4 5 6 11 6
JAMES Quail 4 7 8 6 6
JANE Quail 5 9 3 6 4
CATHERINE Quail 3 7 3 9 4
ANN Quail 7 4 5 5 2
SARAH Quail 5 4 4 5 5
EDWARD Quail 4 7 4 5 2
GEORGE Quail 1 6 4 3 7
ROBERT Quail 1 6 4 5 4
ELIZA Quail 3 5 3 4 3
HENRY Quail 2 2 3 4 6
CHARLES Quail 1 5 5 2 3
JOSEPH Quail 2 3 1 2 4
ISABELLA Quail 1 3 4 1 2
MARTHA Quail 2 2 3 2 1
ALFRED Quail 1 2 1 2 1

Etmology and History of the Surname: Quail

Search for the etymology and history of the surname Quail (information provided by www.BehindTheName.com).

Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Quail family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


Viewing Parish Records in your own home
With the use of personal computers becoming more widespread, the best way to make the parish records easily accessible to the general public is to transfer those records from micro-fiche and film to CD-ROM.

 

The Census - What information can I find in each year?
A census was taken every 10 years from 1810, but were only useful to genealogists as of 1841.

 

Closure at the FRC
The Family Records Centre closes on the 31st October, and plans to move the entire record collection to The National Archives, Kew.

 

Women allowed to enter the Medical Profession from 1876
In the 19th Century, a career as a physician was a highly respected following for a man. Yet it was considered outrageous for any woman to pursue a career in that profession.