Researching Simon Maginn
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 38 people with the Maginn surname? In that year Maginn was ranked number 3541 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Simon means "he who hears" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Simon Maginn on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Simon Maginn and the Maginn Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Maginn Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Maginn family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 458 people with the Maginn surname in the UK? Maginn is now ranked number 3609 for popularity in the UK. |
Maginn Genealogy Databases
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Maginn Forums
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Some Famous People called Simon Maginn
Simon Maginn
Simon Maginn (born 1961 in Wallasey, Merseyside) is a British writer who has published five novels under his own name: Sheep (Corgi 1994), Virgins and Martyrs (Corgi, 1995), A Sickness of the Soul (Corgi 1995), Methods of Confinement (Black Swan 1996) and Rattus (Pendragon Press 2010) which was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy. The novels are horror/psychological thrillers. A film version of Sheep was released as The Dark in 2005.
Maginn has written satirical comedies using the pseudonym Simon Nolan: As Good as it Gets (Quartet Books, 1999), The Vending Machine of Justice (Quartet Books, 2001) and Whitehawk (Revenge Ink, 2010). In 1993, Maginn was one of six authors chosen by W. H. Smith for a campaign involving a purchase of 20,000 paperback books. At the time, Maginn was a music teacher.
In 2018, Maginn was accused of antisemitism over tweets criticising accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party. He was investigated by the Labour Party over antisemitism claims.
Source: Simon Maginn, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Maginn
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