? ?No, Peter was just looking in those certain parish records and calling out some surnames he did?or didn't see. I know that my family's surname didn't originate there. Mine originated outside of Rishton. It appears possible that an ancestor we all share at SNP S6881, or maybe his sons, were in Lancashire before surnames were set as there is a handful of us who have surnames that are place names in Lancashire. But people move all the time and we are talking a really long time ago. I'm sure others could have moved on elsewhere. There are some of us who can prove ties to the areas around Lancashire but I wouldn't doubt your family in Devon. They could have moved on to Devon before they even took their surname.
i was just reading the group posts properly. Do I take it from Peters note above about Upholland and Standish that these parishes look to be the origin of surnames of all the people in this S6881 group except me?
I am just very curious to note that the next town to Upholland is Orrell (first recorded as Horul it seems). My family can trace back pretty far in Devon (at least to 17th C with some records from 14C)? but I'm really intrigued now that maybe our name originates in Lancashire with our common ancestor
