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Was also told that a lot of Loveridge's changed their name to Smith in the Gloucestershire area so I wonder if they were called Smith previously?

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Hi Posh, its not just in Gloucestershire but all over the country that the Loveridge and Smith surnames are interchangeable.
Bramwell - Derbyshire and Bolton
Pottinger - Gloucestershire, Berkshire
James- Gloucestershire
Rawley, Wheeler - Middlesex
Nicholls, Nichols - Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire
Lee, Porter - Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire
Bowers, Coxall, Coe, Dawkins, Hawkins, Horspoole, Rule - Cambridgeshire
Stoughton - Bedfordshire
Stewart - Stirlingshire, Glasgow and Edingburgh
Tulloch - Orkney Islands
Liddell - Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire
Tulloch, Wilson, Stevenson, Baxter, Muir, Boag - Scotland