Families of North Yorkshire
The Cleveland Hills to the Dales — Whitby, Ripon, Scarborough, and the great moorland abbey country.
Families seated in North Yorkshire
- RobinsonSon of Robin — the Danelaw's favourite -son.
- ThompsonThe northern Thomases.
- HallAt the hall.
- MooreBy the moor — or sons of Mórdha; English heath and Irish sept under one Anglicisation.
- CookThe cook.
- FisherThe fisher.
- 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.
- 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.
- BellOf the bell — locative, occupational, or pseudonymous.
Historic ties to North Yorkshire
Families with historic but not core ground here.