HICKIN Surname Distribution

I still need to do a lot more research, but there is little doubt that, in the 19th century at least, the majority of people with the HICKIN surname lived in and hailed from Staffordshire in the English midlands.

From skimming the International Genealogical Index, there is a suggestion that many HICKINs prior to the 19th Century came from Shropshire - a county bordering on Staffordshire suggesting migration towards the pottery towns for work.

Large numbers gravitated towards Birminham and ‘the Black Country’towns of Wolverhampton, Walsall and West Bromwich - the engine room of the English manufacturing industry, particularly metalworking, throughout the 19th Century and for most of the 20th.

My own family, so far, has its roots firmly in London. There is reason to believe that they came to London from the Black Country in the 18th century, but the evidence so far is somewhat rudimentary.

I have some preliminary surname distribution data on these pages. The first is a map abstracted from the 1881 census, the second is a table abstracted from the 1901 census.

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