Description
Wilson means “son of Will” — and thousands of unrelated fathers, each called Will, invented the name independently in parish after parish. From the medieval clerks of Yorkshire to a president who redrew the map of the world, this is the story of a surname with no single bloodline and a hundred beginnings.
Inside: the wolf in the shield, fifteen remarkable lives, the places the name built — and the numbers we can stand behind.
The Surname Histories Series traces one family name per volume through etymology, migration, heraldry, famous bearers, and the towns that carry the name — a coffee-table keepsake for anyone who bears the name, past, present, and future, and for all those who love them.
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