English Heritage - The Names of England
 

Anyone looked at this?
https://namesofengland.english-heritage.org.uk/

Although I've lived in Wales for nearly four decades my family is originally from Sussex. I never realised how far back the family went.

This was the result of a search against my name.

NORTHEAST
MOST COMMON IN
Brighton

NUMBER OF ADULTS
281

English: locative name from Northease Farm in Rodmell (Sussex), which is recorded as Northesia in 1087–1100 and Northhese in 1347.

Re: English Heritage - The Names of England
 

My name is too rare to appear.

Although I'm now in Cleethorpes (for my sins), I was born in Lincoln but the family seems to have come from Hitchin with offshoots in Nottinghamshire.

One of the oddest things I discovered when I was living in the US was that there was an area outside of Chicago called Lincolnshire and there were some African-American families with my last name.

Re: English Heritage - The Names of England
 

Heh, that's good.

What boggles my mind is that in Europe, the 'isopoint' is around the 10th century AD, which means that anyone alive in Europe at that time who had offspring is a direct ancestor of every person alive today who is of European descent.

The 'global isopoint,' when anyone alive on Earth who had offspring is a direct ancestor of everyone alive today, was around 1400BC.

Re: English Heritage - The Names of England
 

That's pretty interesting, my name is originally from Lanark (which I knew) but mostly in Surrey now

Re: English Heritage - The Names of England
 

I also discovered that North Ease farm is still there in Rodmell. The place has been farmed apparently for over 1000 years.

https://www.misterwhat.co.uk/company...ase-farm-lewes

Northease Farm on Google maps street view

Re: English Heritage - The Names of England
 

thats pretty cool Gary.

just checked my surname (Bolland) and it says its from yorks and links. most common in wakefeild. no more information than that. i do know that i can trace my surname in Edinburgh back as far as my great x3 grandad but as far as i know its originally from from Belgium.