If You Have One Of These Surnames, Your Bloodline Reaches Back To The King's Rolls

Your English surname can point back to the King's Rolls: these English last names carry the origin and meaning of the trades and offices the King's clerks wrote down, from Taylor and Walker to Wright and Baker. We trace twenty surnames through the Pipe Rolls, the Hundred Rolls and Domesday Book to decode English ancestry, surname meaning and name etymology for every English American, Australian and Canadian family. Number 20: Sh... Number 19: We... Number 18: Cha... Number 17: Wr... Number 16: Sa... Number 15: Ba... Number 14: Fu... / Wa... / Tu... Number 13: Bar... Number 12: Cha... Number 11: Fle... Number 10: Par... Number 9: Car... Number 8: Pa... Number 7: Ta... Number 6: Tu... Number 5: Co... Number 4: Ta... Number 3: Co... Number 2: Ma... Number 1: ??? One honest note: this is about names and records, not DNA. A trade surname records what one man did, not what his descendants did. The name outlived the work by six hundred years. One name is missing from this countdown on purpose. Smith is usually given a first record in the year 975 in County Durham, which would make it older than anything on the list, but no two sources agree on which document that entry actually sits in. It could not be ranked honestly, so it sits outside the list with the problem stated out loud. Number two, for contrast, sits on the single oldest Exchequer roll that survives at all. Click here to subscribe:    / @thesurnameregister   Sources: the Pipe Rolls of the Exchequer, The National Archives, Kew, class E 372; Domesday Book, class E 31; the Hundred Rolls of 1273 to 1280; the Assize Rolls; P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames; Hanks, Coates and McClure, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Narration is a synthetic voice created for this channel. It imitates no real person. #EnglishSurnames #Ancestry #FamilyHistory