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Re: Naylor origins
1.I suspect the Domesday Book assigned surnames by occupation hence Naylor would relate to Nails, which is in accord withother opinions expressed here and elsewhere in this formum.
2. Mobility in the United Kingdom was somewhat limited. I examined the registry records for England for the period c. 1840-1890 and found that all Naylor births, but a few exceptions, were born within a circle of about 70 miles of Cheshire, England. M<y family came from Little Budsworth, England, near Chester in Cheshire. I know from the local lord (who checked his family records dating way back) that my family were blacksmiths (nails) in Little Budsworth forever. While my antecedant left Little Budsworth in the 1840's there was a Naylor blacksmith in Little Budsworth until about 1900. My great grandfather carried on the tradition in Utah in the mid nineteenth century by becoming a licensee of the Studebaker Wagon company and produced many of the wagons used in the Rocy Mountain area in the latter part of the 19th century. (The Studebaker wagon was the Union Army wagon in the Civil war and was the wagon of choice in the frontier in the post war period. My grandfather became involved in the nascent auto industry and while I am a stockbroker my greatest love is tinkering with machinery. Who says genes don't count? Richard Naylor
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