It is widely believed that a high concentration of a surname in a particular area indicates where that surname might have originate. If this is so then the map below strongly suggests that my surname originated around the English county of Oxfordshire.

The image below shows the distribution of the surname WIGGANS in the United Kingdom using data drawn from the 1881 Census CDs. The image was produced by uploading the data to the Surname Distribution Analysis and Mapping website at http://www.wykes.org/dist/. The resulting image can be downloaded to your PC and is provided as a free service.