What nationality does the surname Wilson come from?

Wilson is one of the most common British surnames: Wilson English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from the personal name Will, a very common medieval short form of William. Trying to work out whether it derives from one area or another doesn't work, as it is so widespread. However, there are families of that name in some areas, such as Scotland, who rose to become much more than their ancestors (as others have pointed out in posts) As I cannot stress often enough though, the only way to really discover your surname origin is to trace BACK from yourself to the ancestor who first held it.

That may or may not be possible (noble ancestors poss. Commoners zilch) But you still might get ideas or probabilities by going as far as you can. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.