Those STAFFORD researchers who have traced their forefathers back to Derbyshire will soon discover that their journey has only just started. Unravelling the numerous STAFFORD families is made more difficult by their high incidence in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. Indeed Derbyshire and the NE corner of Lancashire and Cheshire had the highest frequency of STAFFORDs in England. I've mapped the distributions and the results and some conclusions can be found on my site at https://fhr.staffordonline.net/ on which I'm hoping to add some more consolidated STAFFORD historical data. Coupled with documented evidence for two very old STAFFORD gentry lines at Botham Hall (Bottoms) and Eyam we could speculate that there is a high degree of interrelatedness amongst the various modern STAFFORD families from Derbyshire compared to the rest of the UK. I'm hoping to test this hypothesis by recruiting male STAFFORD volunteers to submit a sample for y-DNA testing. More details can be found on my site as well as an article identifying Victorian newspaper reports of Derbyshire STAFFORD men who claimed to be descended from the Baronial STAFFORD line! James