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hipwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Hipswell in North Yorkshire, named in Old English possibly as ‘stream with stepping stones’; the first element may be from an unattested noun derivative hyppels of the verb hoppian ‘to hop’, and the second is wella, wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The surname has been present in Ireland (County Leix) since the 17th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hipwell family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hipwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of hipwell families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Leicestershire Hipwells Jenny Strickland 7
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Hipwell family in Australia Stephen_Hipwell 1
Richard Hipwell/Jane Thompson Roger Nichols 3
the hipwell family CharlesAllsopp 1
Hipwell Family joanna grayson 3
Maynard Hipwell baby photo from abt 1911-1914 Not_A_Relative 0
Re: Hipwell and Palmer NoraMcL 0
HIPWELL Mary Ann brutnall 0
the hipwell family CharlesAllsopp 0
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