Families of London
The City and the 32 boroughs — Norman, Huguenot, Jewish, Irish, and the most surname-dense ground in Europe.
Families seated in London
- KingWhen the village crowned someone 'king' for a day — and the jest lasted six centuries.
- MooreBy the moor — or sons of Mórdha; English heath and Irish sept under one Anglicisation.
- CooperThe cooper — cask and keg.
- ParkerThe parker.
- DickensSon of little Richard — London fog in print.
- RuskinVictorian conscience of craft.
- CarterThe carter — wheels before engines.
- BarnesBy the barn.
- ButlerThe cellarer's name — Norman household to every county.
- PorterThe gate — the burden — same spelling.
- JohnsonSon of John — the most-Anglo-Saxon-sounding Norman name in the English census.
- AllenSon of Alain — the Breton first name carried to England by William's followers.
- MorrisSon of Maurice — the Norman name that took English root.
- BellOf the bell — locative, occupational, or pseudonymous.
- AndrewsSon of Andrew — apostle, patron saint, common name.
- HenryFrom Henry — the home-ruler Norman first name borne by nine English kings.
- GardnerThe gardener — keeper of the manorial garden.
Historic ties to London
Families with historic but not core ground here.
- Robinson
- Thompson
- Hall
- Ward
- Green
- White
- Mason
- Turner
- Cook
- Adams
- James
- Bailey
- Thatcher
- Shakespeare
- Newton
- Phillips
- Fisher
- Cox
- Richardson
- Webb
- Payne
- Holmes
- West
- Long
- Howard
- Davis
- Jackson
- Martin
- Lee
- Brooks
- Bennett
- Russell
- Harris
- Baker
- Miller
- Stevens
- Jenkins
- Mills
- Ford
- Stone
- Fox
- Saunders
- Reed
- Coleman
- Hopkins
- Simpson
- Marshall
- Harvey
- Gibson
- Spencer
- Matthews
- Lane
- Hunt
- Palmer
- Hayes
- Day
- Webster
- Cole
- Weston
- Curtis
- Lawrence
- Bates
- Haynes
- Rogers
- Ellis
- Reynolds
- Gray