26 A ContrihvMon tu the Anthropology of Wiltshire. 



Directory. These directory lists are, of course, imperfect, in tliat 

 tliey usually take no heed of people below the condition of small 

 tradesmen. 



Names in North "Wilts Musters, 30th Henry 8th. Per cent. 



Here the local specific names are such as Melksham, Deverill ; 

 the local general, such as Townsend, Green,Hurst; those of country, 

 such as Essex, Norris, Champneys ; the Welsh, such as Jones, Pugb, 

 Morgan, Howell ; the doubtful Welsh, such as Williams, Hughes, 

 Jenkins, Lewis, which usually — but not always — indicate a Welsh 

 origin. We see that there were already in the 16 th century a 

 good many Welshmen in Wiltshire ; but as yet the migration was 

 more into the towns than into the country. Nearly the same might 

 be said of the folk with names ending in son (as Wilson^ Kobson), 

 who must all have come from the north or the north-east of England. 

 But as time went on, and the immigration assumed a normal 

 character, the Welshman, generally a farmer in his own country, 

 settled on English land, and accordingly the Welsh percentage 

 is nowadays greater among the farmers than at Devizes. 



A certain amount of immigration went on at times from the 

 Low Countries into the Wiltshire clothing towns, particularly into 

 Bradford, where it was under the auspices of the Methuen family. 

 Some few Dutch surnames, such as Derrick, remain to bear witness 

 to it. 



But for a long time past, with the decline, first of the cloth 

 trade and latterly of agriculture also, the current of migration has 

 changed and flowed outward to America or Australia, to London 

 and other great cities ; and we have probably lost a great part of 



