Many thanks for the replies.
It has to be said that a large part of my family has been rooted in the SE for a long time,but there are some that I know were from different parts of the country,and a couple that id been led to believe were from further afield.
My dads family mostly lived and worked in Faversham and surrounding area for over 200 years,predominantly as gunpowder labourers,creekside labourers,barge loaders and brickfield workers.These were the predominant industries in Faversham back then.They mostly married local people.The family name is Jacobs.My 3xgreat grandparents were Jesse Coppins and Mary Ann Jacob.They never married,and we got the surname Jacob with an added "s".Ive got back to 1700s with Coppins,Kent born and bred.Ive got back to Marys father James on the Jacob,born 1802 Faversham.
Other surnames on Dads paternal side are Wildish,Bullock,Coe,Johncock,Epps, Harris,Tilly,Ormiston.All Kent born,apart from one.My something x great gran Jane Ormiston,born in Durham in 1797.So not much suprise with my result from these.
On dads maternal side,nans dad Arthur Priddle was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1878,his father was born in Long Ditton,Somerset and grandfather born in Sherborn,Dorset.The wives in this line mostly born in Sussex.
On mums side,her mums family were Camburns,they were a big family from Whitstable,nan had nearly 70 1st cousins.They were mostly fisherman,oyster dredgers,shrimpers,fish hawkers,merchant seamen etc.They go back to at least 1673 in Kent with Robert Camburn born Harbledown.A lot did move away though.Nans uncle Alf went to Stranraer in Scotland,married and had 14 children,so ive got lots of cousins there.Nans 1st cousin Charlie went there too.There are lots more who moved away.Ive got a lot of family in Grimsby and Hull.
Mums dad was from Dorset.He met nan when his regiment was stationed near Whitstable.He was illigitimate,but his mums family were mostly from Hampshire and Somerset.
So how am i exclusively Kent,with no connection to any region outside of it?Ive got three lines that i thought might be from further afield,but ive got to go out,so i will post a bit later.
Thanks again.