where does the name wilson originate?

Question

and am i he son of the wheel maker

Answer 1

Wilson is William's son. If you were a Wright you would be descended from someone who made things with his hands. The Arkwrights, foir instance made ships.

Answer 2

Wilson
This distinguished surname, having more than seventy Coats of Arms, and with as many notable entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography" is of early medieval English origin, and is a patronymic form of the male given name Wil(l), itself a diminutive of William. Introduced into England by the Conqueror and his followers at the Conquest of 1066, William soon became the most popular given name in England. The Norman form of
"William", and that borne by the Conqueror, was "Willelm", a form adopted from the Old French "Guilielm" and "Guillaume", ultimately from the Old German "Willhelm", a compound of the elements "wil", will, desire, and "helm", helmet, protection.
One Robertus filius (son of) Willelmi was noted in the Domesday Book of 1086, and a Wille Walt appears in the 1207 Curia Regis Rolls of Norfolk. In 1341, Robert Wilson was recorded in Kirkstall, Yorkshire, the patronymic form of the name having
emerged some seventeen years earlier (as below). John Wilson, an early emigrant to the New World, was recorded on a "List of the Living in Virginia" on February 18th 1623. One of the most illustrious bearers of the name was Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, general and governor of Gibraltar, who in 1801 received the rank of baron of the Holy Roman Empire, and knighthood. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Willeson, which was dated 1324, in "Records of the Manor of Wakefield", Yorkshire, during the reign of King Edward 11, known as "Edward of Caernafon", 1307 - 1327.

Answer 3

Old english Willaims son, degraded to Wilson.

Answer 4

I thought he was the maker of the basket ball that made friends with Tom Hanks in one of his films. It grew hair and everything. I think he drowned in the end, he certainly floated away in a storm, you didn't see the gory details, just his fluffy little head bobbing up and down in the waves. It was so sad!

Answer 5

Exert from Wilson web-site:
"Few have not heard of the legendary prowess of the Vikings. This fierce sea-faring race acquired settlements in the 9th century at the northern tip of Scotland. It was from this group that the family name WILSON emerges."

check out http://www.btinternet.com/~phia.c/phia.c/page5.html

my partner is a Wilson

Answer 6

most names with son in them came from northern europe my name means sons of pig farmer