A geographic view of the documented lines
Each surname line is plotted at its principal documented parish. The clustering tells its own story — most lines concentrated on the Suffolk coast and in the Hundred of Dunmow in Essex, with the Pickin and Ibbs lines reaching westward into the Staffordshire potteries.
Tap any surname to view its line
The map is geographic, not editorial — each dot marks the principal documented parish for the line. Further places, including ancestral origins recorded in family tradition (Cornwall, Ireland, the Isles of Scilly), will be added as research develops. Where two surnames share a parish, their dots overlap.
Base map: British Isles map by Djethro, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.