Quipp

Quipp One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Quipp

Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.

Contact: Mr John Pepperdine

About the study

My grandmothers' maiden name. (Yes both of them before you ask!) Despite this being a rare name it seems to be mentioned in several sources claiming to explain its origin. Some of these were not credible so I determined to explore the name's origin and distribution.

To find an individual in the data uploaded to FamilySearch
In Familysearch.org/search/collection/igi
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Select Genealogies

Scroll down one page to "Oral Genealogies"
Scroll right to "Guild of One-name Studies"

Select "Search for a person"
Enter information about a person
In the list of results only those identified in the extreme left column as coming from Guild of One-Name Studies have been submitted by me.

Variant names

several spelling errors and mistranscriptions but no true variants. It can be challenging to find individuals on census returns for example it has been found mistranscribed as follows

UK census GUINPU, INIFF, KNIPP, QENPP, QINPP, QUIFF, QUIFP, QUIPPS, SNIPP

US census DNIPP, DUIPP, GRIPP, GRUPP, GUIPP, IMPF, IUIPP, QNIPP, QUIPPS, QUWIPP, SNEPP

Canadian census GUIPP, QUEPP, QUIBBP, TRUPP, TWIP, ZUIPP

Name origin

Early occurences of the name at Padiham, Lancs 1577, Guisely, Yorks 1585 and Owersby, Lincs 1602 all arise from families of Whipps living in the same parish.

It is not uncommon for placenames and surnames beginning with QU or WH to show this variation in spelling. eg there is a Quarles in Norfolk and a Wharles in Lancashire both place names having the same original meaning of stone circle

The origin of the surname Whipp is alas not clear.

It is not as one source suggests a variants of Quaife. It is not as another source states a variant of Kipp or Kype. It is not derived from the Latin word quippe

Historical occurrences of the name

None of historical importance

Name frequency

National indexes in the UK show about one birth every year on average. The name has become well established in North America.

Distribution of the name

One Charles Quipp born in North Lincolnshire is responsible for almost all of the Quipps now found in Scotland. A Jonathan Quipp also born in North Lincolnshire emigrated to Canada in early 1830s and his descendants are numerous in North America. Although his parents are known we still do not know where he married in England or where in England his first son was born.

Data

I have evidence that all present day Quipps can be traced back to one or other of two marriages in Lincolnshire. This takes the form of two extended family trees

John Quipp of Gainsborough married Elizabeth Harker of Whisby 10 Dec 1733 at Doddington Pigot in Lincolnshire they settled in Brigg, Lincs
John Quipp married Elizabeth Harrison 16 May 1741 Lincoln St Mary Magdalene.
The records are incomplete but both Johns seem to be descendants of the Quipp family in Littleborough, Nottinghamshire.

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DNA

Contact Details

Mr John Pepperdine

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Quipp in the Guild Indexes

(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)

Global Marriages 20

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