HALL

The surname HALL was likely given to people who worked at the local manor during the middle ages. My Halls came from the Newcastle/Sunderland area of the north east of England. Hall is particularly common in the 1881 census and was much less common in the south west of the country.
The publicprofiler map of surname distribution lists HALL as the 19th most frequent surname in the UK(1881) with the north east of England containing the most per 1000000 (291).
The 1911 census lists 9934 Halls in Durham compared to just 661 in Cornwall, 824 in Devon and 681 in Somerset.
The fact that there were so many Halls in Durham in the 19th century probably means that any headway with my Halls will be very slow.