The shipton Surname
shipton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Dorset, Glloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, and
Shropshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip
‘sheep’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Shipton - Chippenham, Wiltshire, England |
 Colin Shipton
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Colin Shipton
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| Shipton Family | Jo Harris | 16 |
| Margaret Shipton m Marshall Bettis |
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| pennington -spragg born chester cheshire | ernie pennington | 1 |
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| Obit for Bessie Hill Shipton | Marshella | 0 |
| Thomas George Shipton | Robert Stephenson | 0 |
| Ancestory | Kate Shipton | 0 |
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