Williamson is a name that research shows has been established since the ninth century. Williamson is a middle Anglo-Saxon occupational last name. The earliest presence of the name was found in 1059 from the county of Surrey in the UK. This was a regular term during the Anglo-Saxon period in Southern England, but now the surname is fairly widespread around Britain. In the seventeenth century a considerable group of settlers known as Williamson's migrated to the British colonies in Australia.
Williamson is ranked 917th in the UK's most common names. The nineteen eleven census carried out by H.M. Treasury for the UK and Ireland shows the largest number of Williamson's in the county of Cornwall. In 1865 a man named Charles Williamson was jailed for misbehaviour.
There are some famous Williamson's...