Families of East Riding & the Humber
Hull and the Wolds, the Humber estuary, the shore the Saxons named, and the fishing-port and Hanseatic-trade surname pool.
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Families seated in East Riding & the Humber
- RobinsonSon of Robin, the Danelaw's favourite -son, and the first woman President of Ireland.
- ThompsonThe northern Thomases.
- HallAt the hall.
- CookThe cook.
- FisherThe fisher, and the Bishop of Rochester at Tower Hill.
- HolmesThe holme, dry ground in the wet country.
- JacksonSon of Jack, the industrial north's signature.
- BennettBlessed Benedict, Lancashire knots it tight.
- MillerThe miller, water and wind before steam.
- SimpsonSimon's son, Tyne to Tees, and the Edinburgh obstetrician of chloroform.
- WaltonThe settlement of strangers, England mapped it eighty times.
- WebsterShe wove, northern -ster craft name.
- BatesBartholomew's short name, northern genitive.
- MortonThe moor settlement, marcher villages.
- WilkinsonSon of little William, the northern patronymic that bored Watt's cylinders.
Historic ties to East Riding & the Humber
Families with historic but not core ground here.