The tarpley Surname
tarpley Name Meaning and History
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’ + leah ‘(woodland)
clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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