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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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Distribution of tarpley Families in the US in 1920
Number of tarpley families
 40-77
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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