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Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	DjH	Report	17 Oct 2007 11:42
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	The surname probably evolved from Cedd(7th Century)>Chide>Kide(1066)>Kidd(and variants), from Christian baptism of families of Romanized Britons and Anglo-Saxon invaders; please see http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Kidd Cedd was one of 4 monk-priests trained by Aidan of Lindisfarne, sent out to convert and baptise the English people into Celtic Christianity. I would further recommend all those interested in the deep ancestry of their surname, to enlist at www.familytreedna.com and contribute lineage Y-DNA (male mouth swab) for analysis at 37-marker (or greater) level. 1881 population density distributions establish more recent origins from Yorkshire, Eastern Scotland and Ireland and these distributions, in turn, partly derive from (1) Early Pilgrimage (pre-Norman conquest) to sites associated with Cedd i.e Mercia, Anglia and Essex (2) Migration of families (post-Norman conquest) from the Borders area, where allegiances moved to either Malcolm/Margaret of Scotland or the Norman Kings of England (3) 'Encouraged/enforced dispersal' of Borders families during the reign of William of Orange, to Ireland, Scotland and England.