Is there a record of surnames becoming extinct?

[Hackstaple]

Minn - according the ONS Taliesin programme there is nobody named Brograve living in the UK

[Minn]

Hackstaple - thanks very much for looking that up, saves me a lot of fruitless searching!

Cheers
Minn

[Boongie Pam]

This is an old topic I fell over by accident and remembered how interesting I found it.  I wonder? 

We have a much bigger membership now. 

Has anyone got a surname in their tree they can prove is now extinct?

P

[Minn]

Hi Pam

I've found out alot about my Brograves since my last post on this thread. My ancestor changed his name by Royal Licence to Brograve, his mother's maiden name, & I initially thought it was to prevent it from becoming extinct, but I now know from letters I have, that at the same time he applied to have the Baronetcy of his late uncle, "revived in his person".

He wasn't granted the Baronetcy, & the name still became extinct!

Minn 

[Blondie1]

My husband is an only one his fathers brother never had children and we only had girls so recon thats the end of that line.

[Boongie Pam]

What a card eh Minn, he sounds like an interesting bloke Mr Brograve.

Grumpyblonde - will the surname disappear forever, off the whole planet?

[Blondie1]

I am not sure about that.    But this particular line of the family -yes

[Simon G.]

There are plenty of other branches of my surname, but in our branch I'm the end of the line.  My great-great-grandfather had three sons, but only one ever had children...my great-grandfather, of course.  He had two sons, but only my grandfather had a son of his own (his brother has three daughters).  I'm my father's only son, and due to having had treatment for males cancers there's a good chance I can't have children.  I find it ironic that I'm the one researching the family tree, and I'm most likely the last person in it.