Families of Northumberland
Bernicia's heartland, Hadrian's Wall, Lindisfarne, and the great northern earldom from the Tweed to the Tyne.
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Families seated in Northumberland
- RobinsonSon of Robin, the Danelaw's favourite -son, and the first woman President of Ireland.
- ThompsonThe northern Thomases.
- CookThe cook.
- RichardsonSon of Richard.
- JacksonSon of Jack, the industrial north's signature.
- MillerThe miller, water and wind before steam.
- ReedThe marsh edge, or ruddy jest.
- SimpsonSimon's son, Tyne to Tees, and the Edinburgh obstetrician of chloroform.
- FosterThe forester's shortening.
- GibsonGib's son, industrial northeast.
- ChapmanThe merchant, fair and street.
- GrayThe grey one, descriptive, aristocratic, or anatomical.
- PercyEarls and Dukes of Northumberland, seven hundred years at Alnwick Castle.
- WilkinsonSon of little William, the northern patronymic that bored Watt's cylinders.
- VanceOf the valleys, a Norman name on the Scots-Irish road.
- DixonSon of Dick, a Borders patronymic.
Historic ties to Northumberland
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Northumberland.
- Josephine ButlerThe Northumberland-born Liverpool clergyman's wife who led the seventeen-year national campaign that secured the 1886 repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and through that campaign founded the modern English-language women's-rights movement against state-licensed prostitution.
- Sir Henry PercyThe eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland whose lifelong campaign against the Scottish wars of the late fourteenth century made him the most celebrated knight of his generation in the English-speaking world, immortalised by Shakespeare in Henry IV as the embodiment of chivalric honour.