Families of Nottinghamshire
Nottingham and Sherwood, Robin Hood country, the Trent crossing, and the lace-and-coal surnames of the East Midlands.
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Families seated in Nottinghamshire
- WardThe watchman.
- AttenboroughFrom the East Saxon woman's fort, broadcasting dynast roots.
- ColemanColumban saint-name or Nicholas' man.
- SpencerThe steward, from pantry to peerage.
- PalmerThe palm-bearer, pilgrimage turned patronymic.
- HaynesHainaut or hedged field, context splits.
- SuttonThe south farmstead.
Historic ties to Nottinghamshire
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Nottinghamshire.
- George GreenThe Nottingham miller's son who taught himself the mathematics of his age in the loft of his father's windmill, and in 1828 published the essay from which Green's theorem, Green's functions and a quarter of modern mathematical physics descend.
- William LeeThe Nottinghamshire curate whose 1589 invention of the stocking frame mechanised the previously hand-knitted hosiery trade, founded the East Midlands hosiery industry that lasted four centuries, and was the foundational textile machine of the first Industrial Revolution.