ht. HBDChick - Basilica "Vicky" Fouca speaking for the paper she cowrote with Theo Serlin. Both outsiders to Mid-Industrial-era cisvalline Britain, they've shown how the people and the culture changed going into the twentieth century. Scotland is not noted.
They are going by "surname". This becomes family-name. I am unsure how they fine-tune it: some surnames are, like, "the guy from Clwyd"; others, "the thatcher", still more "[ma]pEvan" or "the Scott". Maybe "de-" or "fitz-" if we're talking some Plantagenet-era lord or bastard thereof. Maybe "Whitehouse" or "Hall", for the latters' bondsmen.
Staffordshire - which went hard into manufacturing - seems at the three-corners of North Wales, the Midlands, and a North Midlands. The Midlands will suffer the fate of the Anglia and the West, getting blown out by that greater lower Saxony which is the Home Countries. North Midlands get exiled north into the North which itself gets pushed northeast, northeast retreating into that Northumbrian tip. That Salopian enclave of Gwynedd (again, not South Wales) also falls to this united England.
From the born-late-1700s map I suspect already a vast migration into Staffs, north Welsh "Lloyds" and "Bevans" moving southeast: where the jobs were, where public order was stronger, and where the weather was more clement. I'd not be surprised if this was actively Tudor and more-quietly Stuart: Henry VII, James I, Charles I. Offa's Dyke? More like Offa's Gay amirite!
Ahem.
The Anglo-Welsh census kicks in 1851. Over the early 1800s those Tudor Marches seem eroded by Midlands. Even before then, over the 1600s and 1700s, first East Anglia then North Midlands, West Country, and the Severn- and Dee-/Mersey-mouths had the colonies for outlet.
The new industry in the Wolverhampton / Stafford region gave those left-behind something to do, at least.
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