Location of persons named Lees. Spreadsheet created by Phil Lees 2007 (& updated 27/01/2013) data from England's 10 year Census
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 Approx miles from “Lees”. CENSUS 1841 CENSUS 1851 CENSUS 1861 CENSUS 1871 CENSUS 1881 CENSUS 1891 CENSUS 1901 CENSUS 1911
Lancashire (Oldham) 2.5 3132 2804 4118 4407 4783 4755 5463 5605
Cheshire (Stockport) 12 542 378 424 516 878 962 651 689
Derbyshire 47.8 204 262 251 262 300 293 379 390
Yorkshire (York) 58.3 813 879 927 1002 1247 1230 1122 1358
Staffordshire (Stafford) 60.1 815 885 1091 1201 1324 1314 1364 1519
Nottinghamshire 71.1 221 230 248 237 322 352 390 510
Worcestershire (Dudley) 82 185 172 180 216 265 237 256 337
Leicestershire 82.8 91 87 134 178 166 151 186 155
Durham (Darlington) 85 32 44 39 85 110 95 140 179
Shropshire 86.5 96 109 96 81 83 138 140 153
Warwickshire (Birmingham) 91 424 476 523 491 600 598 674 743










11 counties (around 100 mile radius of Lees).
6555 6326 8031 8676 10078 10125 10765 11638


93.10% 92.63% 91.87% 93.83% 93.82% 93.24% 90.88% 89.84%










Middlesex (London) 188 170 158 198 31 34 107 130 191
Gloucestershire (Gloucester) 135 42 60 79 51 75 96 121 121
Surrey 207 72 51 91 73 63 50 83 107
Essex 210 16 13 26 33 36 39 82 129
Hampshire 212 17 7 25 25 43 41 69 79
Northumberland 154 12 9 29 53 69 60 68 83
Kent 241 15 19 35 31 28 23 60 71
Cumberland (Carlisle) 135 13 13 18 50 59 38 51 35
Devon 293 5 13 19 29 32 16 46 37
Hertfordshire 167 14 23 23 28 30 31 44 64
Sussex (Brighton) 250 3 24 19 24 29 40 41 83
Dorset 240 7 8 0 8 3 19 40 36
Suffolk 188 17 16 10 19 37 37 31 44
Lincolnshire 106 13 15 25 14 20 29 30 50
Norfolk 186 7 10 10 4 2 9 30 28
Berkshire 184 12 1 15 15 13 12 23 22
Buckinghamshire 153 1 5 21 1 9 6 23 9
Northamptonshire 130 25 20 19 15 23 18 20 24
Bedfordshire 149 8 2 0 17 10 12 14 18
Cambridgeshire 159 2 12 12 13 5 8 13 4
Huntingdonshire 145 1 1 0 17 5 5 13 14
Somerset 217 1 7 13 5 23 17 13 36
Cornwall 325 0 0 1 0 1 3 12 6
Herefordshire 132 6 12 3 10 5 13 9 6
Oxfordshire 151 0 0 5 1 2 3 6 7
Wiltshire 197 6 3 14 1 0 1 4 6
Westmorland (Keswick) 110 1 1 0 2 6 1 3 1
Rutland 107 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 5










Remaining 28 counties (over 100 miles radius).
486 503 711 571 664 734 1080 1316


6.90% 7.37% 8.13% 6.17% 6.18% 6.76% 9.12% 10.16%










England Counties declared totals
7041 6829 8742 9247 10742 10859 11845 12954
Census reports show around  90% of persons with the surname Lees living in England, lived in the counties within 100 miles of 14th century village of “Lees”.
1841 to 1911 Census results, show England's Lees population slowly moving away to counties over the 100 mile radius by approx .05% average per year
With a “compounding” migration over 300 to 400 years, “Lees Village” could now be the most likely candidate for the true origin of the surname Lees.
If anyone has statistics that can help prove or disprove the above, I would really like to here from you. Foothelp