Peplor History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Etymology of Peplor

What does the name Peplor mean?

Peplor is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Peplor family once lived in Peplow a small location found in the county of Shropshire. The surname Peplor was originally derived from the Old English word pyppel which referred to those individuals who lived on the pepple hill.

Early Origins of the Peplor family

The surname Peplor was first found in Shropshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Peplow, originally pre-Conquest named Papelau, and conjecturally they are descended from the holder of the manor at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book in 1086, Ralph de Mortimer, who held the manor from Earl Roger. A new Peplow Hall was built in Georgian times.

Early History of the Peplor family

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Peplor Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Peplor family name include Peploe, Peplow, Pepplar, Peppler, Peplor, Pepler, Peplar and many more.

Early Notables of the Peplor family

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Migration of the Peplor family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Peplor surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Richard Peplow who settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1775; Henry Peppler settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1858.