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Many
have questioned the disproportionate distribution of surnames. So how,
you might ask, and why, did there get to be so many Carters or Cartwrights
in this present day world of ours? Why shouldn't the Plunks, and many other
'one-off surnames' be right up there with them? Why the disproportionate
representation? And this is the 64K question everybody wants to avoid.
We can call it inexplicable, accidental human evolution, and leave it at
that. On the other hand, the differentials might be important to our genetic
composition.
Theoretically,
one person living at the time of the Conquest, over thirty generations,
could produce millions of descendants of the same surname and, although
we are not suggesting this happened in any ordered fashion, the possibility
exists. On the other hand, it is equally preposterous to claim a single
source origin for all surnames.
Two
of the first identifiable relics of surname association was the family
seal (the knight's legal bank card) and the Coat of Arms. Let's consider
the surviving Coat of Arms for the family name Nowadays it seems like a
very ordinary surname which thousands enjoy. It was big in the 14th and
15th centuries, Barons, Lords, knights, and the reveals over 30 Coat of
Arms registered to different people of that surname (different branches
of the family name throughout history). All but two carry the main theme
device, a silver field charged with a black lion rampant. This 800 year
historical time span of the surname records would have been a huge demographic
phenomena of random coincidence if purely accidental. Foreign intruders
into the surname over this 800 year period would surely have been expected
to have a been strongly represented by "foreigners", who changed their
name to Stapleton. Few remember, or care to. Nevertheless, maybe there
is a much stronger argument for kinship within a family surname than we
care to acknowledge.
Surname
Distribution
Conclusion
