the HIGSON family name of south Lancashire England

updated 17 February 2007 (earliest known HIGSON added in 2nd paragraph)

Higson coat-of-arms

Not strictly the HIGSON coat-of arms but the coat-of arms allocated to the HIGSON brewey chain of Liverpool.

Over the centuries, from it's beginnings around 1559 (marriage of Agneta HIGSON to Wilhelmus LETHUM 18 Feb 1559 in Gisburn, Yorkhire, Eng reference IGI(BI) on Family Search web site) the HIGSON family have spread throughout the north-west of England and to some small degree, around the rest of England and the world.

This website is the beginnings of an attempt to correlate the spread of the name.(dare I be so bold as to use the words 'one name study'?)



In a attempt to bring order into what could quickly become chaos, I am attempting to allocate all records a reference number based on a modification of the Henry System of genealogical descendent numbering.



www.hicksons.org covers the variations on the name HICKSON, which many people believe is the root name for HIGSON, HIXON etc


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