COUNTIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

AND THE ORIGINS OF OUR UNITED KINGDOM FAMILIES

The Key to the Counties for this map is below.
If you prefer, the county key can be opened in another window as a separate UK Counties page.

Most of the family lines in these pedigrees originated in Scotland, England and Ireland. Lists of family names and their associated counties are given on the Scottish and English family pages which also include maps.

Go to the Scottish Families and Counties Page | Go to the English Families and Counties Page
This map should be used only as a guide to the relative county locations. It was created, using a variey of information sources from a range of years, by "hand" by Gail Irwin specifically for incorporation into this site and the county boundaries as shown may not bear much resemblance to past reality for any given time period!

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Scotland
  1. Aberdeenshire
  2. Angus
  3. Argyll
  4. Ayrshire
  5. Banffshire
  6. Berwickshire
  7. Bute
  8. Caithness
  9. Clackmannanshire
  10. Dumbartonshire
  11. Dumfriesshire
  12. East Lothian
  13. Fife
  14. Inverness-shire
  15. Kincardineshire
  16. Kinross-shire
  17. Kirkcudbrightshire
  18. Lanarkshire
  19. Midlothian
  20. Moray
  21. Nairnshire
  22. Orkney
  23. Peeblesshire
Scotland Continued
  1. Perthshire
  2. Renfrewshire
  3. Ross & Cromarty
  4. Roxburghshire
  5. Selkirkshire
  6. Stirlingshire
  7. Shetland
  8. Sutherland
  9. West Lothian
  10. Wigtonshire
England
  1. Bedfordshire
  2. Berkshire
  3. Buckinghamshire
  4. Cambridgeshire
  5. Cheshire
  6. Cornwall
  7. Cumberland
  8. Derbyshire
  9. Devonshire
  10. Dorsetshire
England Continued
  1. Durham
  2. Essex
  3. Gloucestershire
  4. Hampshire
  5. Herefordshire
  6. Hertfordshire
  7. Huntingdonshire
  8. Kent
  9. Lancashire
  10. Leicestershire
  11. Lincolnshire
  12. London
  13. Middlesex
  14. Norfolk
  15. Northamptonshire
  16. Northumberland
  17. Nottinghamshire
  18. Oxfordshire
  19. Rutlandshire
  20. Shropshire
  21. Somersetshire
  22. Staffordshire
  23. Suffolk
England Continued
  1. Surrey
  2. Sussex
  3. Warwickshire
  4. Westmorland
  5. Wiltshire
  6. Worcestershire
  7. Yorkshire
Wales and Isle of Man
  1. Anglesey
  2. Breconshire
  3. Caernarvonshire
  4. Cardiganshire
  5. Carmarthenshire
  6. Denbighshire
  7. Flintshire
  8. Glamorgan
  9. Merionethshire
  10. Monmouthshire
  11. Montgomeryshire
  12. Pembrokeshire
  13. Radnorshire
  14. Isle of Man

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