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  • Find My Past Blog - We unearth Sherlock Holmes in our records

    To celebrate yesterday’s release of Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’, we’ve put on our deerstalker hat to uncover the mystery of Britain’s real Sherlock Holmes.
    Our detective work has revealed that since the publication of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Holmes novel ‘A Study in Scarlet’ in 1887, nine people have been named Sherlock Holmes across England and Wales.
    We also discovered that the Holmes brothers actually did exist. The 1911 census on findmypast.co.uk shows a Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft Holmes - played by Stephen Fry in the film - living in Yorkshire aged 14 and 10 years old:
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    The most popular name from the world’s most famous detective series, however, is not Sherlock or Mycroft, but Watson, the detective’s loveable partner played by Jude Law. Watson appears 14,405 times as a first name in the England and Wales 1837-2006 birth records on findmypast.co.uk. It even appears eight times as a first name and last name: Watson Watson. 319 people had Sherlock as a first name.
    Have you found any Sherlocks, Mycrofts or Watsons in your family tree?


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