Map Your Surname

[bovril]

Let's see your results. Mine's pretty boring. The winner is whoever can get a single red circle over Leicestershire

 

 

 

https://named.publicprofiler.org/

[ajthefox]

I'm not Welsh and my mum has gone back to 1800s on ancestry and hasn't found any Welsh family. Very odd.

[bovril]

Just now, ajthefox said:

I'm not Welsh 

Location: Liverpool

[SkidsFox]

Heh, no data whatsoever...it is a fairly unusual surname though.

[spacemunky]

[Voll Blau]

The more westerly red map is spot on for where we come from. Guess the Vikings chased us away from the East Anglian branch.

[Oxfordfox83]

Reckon I’m pretty close…

[Zear0]

6 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

I'm not Welsh and my mum has gone back to 1800s on ancestry and hasn't found any Welsh family. Very odd.

Yeah whatever Jonesy

[foxfanazer]

Pretty weird as I'm living in Norfolk but I'm Leicester born and bred 

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Pretty weird as I'm living in Norfolk but I'm Leicester born and bred 

Being East Anglian is a calling. You cannot deny the truth. 

[fuchsntf]

My family name first came over with the Normans…So I suppose I belong to those new migrants,who nick all your jobs.

Though my mothers side has 2 roots..

1 baker conotations

2 Norman knights

 

Thaz how it come aboot My mothers-Family side invented the famous scene mock ups

for old ye Bun-fights,between Anglos/Saxons /and Normans.
Later betrayed in the various filming  of Robin Hood..

[tom27111]

That's pretty close!

[bovril]

1 minute ago, tom27111 said:

That's pretty close!

We have an early leader...

[bovril]

8 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

The more westerly red map is spot on for where we come from. Guess the Vikings chased us away from the East Anglian branch.

East Anglians and Midlanders are pretty close I think. In these genetic maps of the British population they usually end up being pretty identical. The most N. European of all Britons. 

[Facecloth]

Considering there's about 6 people in the country with my sisters surname I'm not sure how accurate the data is given it says there a large concentration of them near the Wash 

[indierich06]

[bovril]

Just now, Facecloth said:

Considering there's about 6 people in the country with my sisters surname I'm not sure how accurate the data is given it says there a large concentration of them near the Wash 

Judging by my result it's pretty accurate as genuinely I've never seen my surname outside of Middlesex and Essex. 

[bovril]

1 minute ago, indierich06 said:

Fenlander! 

[Bordersfox]

Unsurprisingly I knew this would happen before I put my name in.  

[ajthefox]

22 minutes ago, bovril said:

Location: Liverpool

I'm not following...

[bovril]

1 minute ago, ajthefox said:

I'm not following...

Lot of Welsh migration to Liverpool no? 

[Izzy]

Always knew my family were a bunch of northern monkeys

 

Whoa, Lanky, Lanky, 

 

Lanky, Lanky, Lanky, Lanky, Lancashire.

 

[tom27111]

12 minutes ago, bovril said:

We have an early leader...

 

I have a very rare surname. Aside from family, I've never met anyone else who is unfortunate enough to have it.

 

The site seems accurate though, it is meant to be a name that pretty much only exists in the east Midlands, although it is supposedly a variant on an old Scottish name.

Edited 24 August 2023 by tom27111

[Rain King]

[Finnegan]

6 minutes ago, Bordersfox said:

Unsurprisingly I knew this would happen before I put my name in.  

 

Jones, Evans or Williams?