Hidden One Name Study
Welcome to the home page for the HIDDEN One-Name Study
The surname HIDDEN is unusual and the study is interested in discovering more about its distribution and the ways in which family groups interlink with a line of descent which is already traced back to the fifteenth century.
The HIDDEN One-Name Study is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS)
THE HIDDEN ARCHIVE
The HIDDEN archive is a database containing over 12,000 records relating
mainly to HIDDENs but also including some
references to similar surnames like HEADEN, HEADING, HEDDEN and HIDDON
(these are not covered as fully as for HIDDEN)
The sources used include civil registration, parish registers, probate records,
census returns, street directories, manorial documents, leases, Chancery depositions
and many others published and unpublished.
The Archive page contains links to some of the information in the database
and further links will be added as time goes on.
The large amount of information which is held on the Hidden Archive database may enable present day bearers of the name to link up with an earlier line.
If you are interested in the study perhaps because you have a HIDDEN ancestor or some material which could be included please get in touch, we would be pleased to hear from you. The e-mail address of the group is
hidden "at" onename.org where "at" is replaced by @.
The address is provided in this form instead of as a link in order to reduce the amount of junk mail received.
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