Virginia, South Carolina, and Indiana as of 1990 have the highest per capita concentration of Mundy's in the US, followed closely by North Carolina and Georgia. While this is valuable information it is important to remember that this is not the highest NUMBER of Mundy families in the United States at any given time but reflects the per capita concentration within each state individually as reflected in collected census data.
Still it is a good tool in getting a sense of our family's migration patterns. Also keep in mind that our family name was spelled by clerks many ways, but most often as Munday or Monday and it wasn't until the end of the 19th century that the family began spelling it Mundy on a more consistant basis, both in Georgia and Virginia. This wide variation of spellings in previous censuses also dilutes the per capita concentrations that may have otherwise been prevalent in earlier censuses. Also ennumerators were notorious for getting names wrong, or getting information from neighbors who got it wrong when the family wasn't present at the time of the enumerator's visit. Check out distribution maps for the other variant spellings for our name. |
