Kingsman Name Study

Profile managers: Derrick Watson [send private message] and One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message]

About the Project

The Kingsman Name Study is also registered with the Guild of One Name Studies.

The Kingsman Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Kingsman name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Kingsman name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Kingsmans), by time period (18th Century Kingsmans), or by topic (Kingsman DNA, Kingsman Occupations, Kingsman Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Kingsman Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator:Derrick Watson for assistance.

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Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research projects on which we are working. Any help is more than welcome.

• Connecting all the existing Kingsman profiles on wikitree to their equivalent pages on the Kingsman ONS website - the ONS webiste often contains more information than has been copied over into wikitree.
• Seeking new contributors to our Y-DNA program. Getting people to join is not easy, but it can be really rewarding. In this case showing the link between the very large US Kingsman family and the much smaller root family of Kingsman in England.
• Building the at-DNA database of Kingsman descendants. This is very much work in progress and hopefully will help us fill in some gaps in the more recent Kingsman family history where there is a lack of paper records.
• Adding in more paper trail research to expand on the bare bones that are already here.

Membership

• Derrick Watson
• Danielle Kingsman

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Kinsman
• Kyngesman

About the Kingsmans

Although the 1841 UK census indicates this to be a London based family group, all of those people are members of one family that has been traced back to Overton, Wiltshire in the early 1500s.

There was a separate family of Kingsman living in Essex, traced back to the 1400s, but that family appears to have daughtered out in the 1700s. No connection has been found between these two families.

A family of Kingsman from Scotland has been traced back to a Robert Kingsman arriving there from Ireland in the early 1800s. The earliest records of him show his name variuosly as Kingsman and Kingsmill, and DNA evidence has shown him to be originally of a family of Kingsmill from Kent, England.

The only other discrete family of Kingsman are from Ireland in the late 19th century, but trace back to a soldier from Wilsthire who chose to settle there when discharged from the English army. Although from Wiltshire his line has not been connected to the main Kingsman family from there.

There is one family of Kingsman in Australia which originated as Kinsman in Cornwall before they emigrated. The same also happened the other way around with a family of Kingsman becoming known as Kinsman.

There is also a very large family of Kinsman in America who descend from a Robert Kinsman who emigrated there in 1634. This Robert Kinsman came from Highworth in Wiltshire and DNA evidence shows that his Kinsman line and the Kingsman line from nearby Overton are related.

All of the most up to date results on the Kin(g)(s)man families research is available at the Kin(g)(s)man ONS website

Also see the Kingsman One Name Study at the Guild of One-Name Studies.