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walpole Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from either of two places in Norfolk and Suffolk. The first element of the former is Old English w(e)all ‘wall’, while the first element of the latter is wealh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’ (see Wallace); they share the second element Old English pol ‘pool’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of walpole Families in the US in 1920
Number of walpole families
 23-43
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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