Stephen and Julie Gibbon (Gill) - Genealogy Information

Surname - Location and Migration

We are very grateful for permission from the Surname Profiler Project Website to include images and information on these pages generated from their profile research and data. Many thanks to Daryl Lloyd, Richard Webber and Paul Longley. Their site provides really useful and interesting spatial information relating to surnames. The site provides, for a given surname: frequency and ethnicity data; geographic information; and spatial maps from 1881 and 1998. It is extremely interesting from a genealogy perspective. If you have not tried the Surname Profiler Project Website I can highly recommend it.

What does the table below provide?

Ethnicity - Statistics about the surname frequency and its ethnicity. Again, further explanations can be found here.
Locations - Statistics about the surname global distribution. Again, further explanations can be found here.
Maps - Two maps of the UK showing the density of surnames by area in 1881 and 1998. Explanations.
Classification - Name derivation - a fuller explanation can be found here at the Surname Profiler Project Website

Click on an entry in the table to view the information available.

Surname Ethnicity	Locations	1881 and 1998 Maps	Classification
Bedford	Click	Click	English - Locational Name; Place; Middle or Large Town
Gibbon	Click	Click	Celtic; Scottish; Personal Name
Gill	Click	Click	Imported From Abroad; Other South Asian; Sikh. A name which may have more than one origin. The name ‘Gill’ for example is common both among Sikhs and in Cumbria, in which county it represents the local name for a stream.
Moxham	Click	Click	English - Locational Name; Settlement Ending; Ham
Price	Click	Click	Celtic; Welsh; Name of Parent Starting with -Ap (Welsh for son)
Pugh	Click	Click	Celtic; Welsh; Name of Parent Starting with -Ap (Welsh for son)

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