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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly a habitational name from Tarporley in Cheshire, recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as Torpelei and in 1281 as Thorperlegh, possibly from an unattested Old English word thorpere ‘peasant’, ‘cottager’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.

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