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POPPLEWELL:
A WORLDWIDE ONE-NAME STUDY
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Origin of the Family Name & History -
Popplewell,
from OE popel,
either meaning "pebbly soil" + well, or "spring
beside the poplar or poplars".
-well is a suffix
associated with many towns and villages of the limestone country
of north Derbyshire and southwest Yorkshire signifying a well or
spring.
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881 (above)
showing a clear WRY focus, as well as
the group who migrated to London and Essex.
The maps below
are based on 2000-2005 data, with the highest US population
in Kentucky.
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At the time of the Domesday
Book (1086) the area was thought to be waste land (William I, The
Conqueror, of Normandy, in his "harrying of the North"
laid waste to Cleckheaton & Heckmondwyke), however it was
mentioned as part of the village of Scholes in 1228, part of the
greater Wakefield area. Scholes is a Viking name (dating back to
no earlier than the year 900) and therefore later than the OE
name, suggesting the site to be inhabited earlier. Both High
Popplewell and New
Popplewell are on the western
side of Scholes village, against Hartshead Moor, West Yorkshire.
Today, little remains of these
two small hamlets and they are only remembered by Old Popplewell
Lane & New Popplewell Lane off the B6120 leading south out of
Scholes, as well as the family name. Scholes is now part of South
Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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Above:
From New Popplewell Lane looking down Scholes Lane
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Above:
New Popplewell Lane off Scholes Lane
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Above:
Old Popplewell Lane off Westfield Lane
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Above:
Scenic end to Old Popplewell Lane
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Photos
courtesy of Cynthia POPPLEWELL (pictured)
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The earliest mention of the
place is in the 1228 register of the Archbishop of York, Walter
de GRAY, which reads "Confirmation
of the grant of corn-tithes of Hulm, Ricrof, Sculebroc, Scales,
and Poplewell, made by Richard, parson of Birstall, to Henry de
HORBIRI, clerk, till he gets some other benefice."
In 1254 the area including Scholes had no more than 14 families
(est. total population of 70). Thomas
de Poplewell lived at Heaton
Black in 1311. It is possible today's POPPLEWELL families are
descended from one family or a small group of unrelated families
living in the same area. Y-DNA tests of potential distant male
relatives will reveal whether families are related.
The Wakefield Court Rolls
reveal a John of Popelwelle
(1316; who was pardoned) and John
of Popilwell (1323: whose wife
Johanna de GOLDALE stole a calf from Agnes de la MERE and was to
be taken). In 1338 there is a mention of Poplewell Charity in the
records of Raistric Brighouses. One of the residents, Thomas
de POPLWELL, was a freeman as
he was only one of five men paying taxes in 1347.
In the C16th, by which time
the village name would have been adopted as a surname, there was
a Thomas POPPELWELL
(1539; elected constable of the township of Fixby) and a Thomas
POPLEWELL (1551), who may be
ancestors of the family. In 1542, the Will of Sir Robert NEVILLE
of Liversedge mentions his lands "in Hie Popilwell, Scoles
and Clackeheton." The important house at High Popplewell was
held by Matthew NEVILLE but occupied by George NEVILLE in 1578.
The small barn adjacent the farmhouse at High Popplewell bore the
date 1567.
Thomas POPPLEWELL
is a churchwarden re. accounts 29.11.1727 (probably St. Peter's
at Hartshead), and an apprentice John BROOK, was put to William
POPLEWELL of Church House in
1741. A Samuel POPPLEWELL
is mentioned re. accounts for Church & Poor in 1777.
Popplewell Charities (John, Ann & Rebecca) are mentioned in
1820 & 1832. The Charities were still in use in 1894.
If you bear this name, you are
almost certainly part of the many emigrant families that have
been traced back to this C17th area of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, England (Birstall parish). This may also include those
with the name variants of POPELWELL,
POPLEWELL, POPPELWELL,
POPPLEWEIL,
POPPELL,
POPPERWELL and
POPWELL.
However, although many families stayed in the Yorkshire area, the
records show that the name also moved further afield quite early
on. For example, in England the name is recorded in late C15th
Lincolnshire (likely migration through the intervening Yorkshire
East Riding), mid C16th London (unsurprisingly for traders and a
magnet to many in all centuries), C17th Nottinghamshire, mid
C18th Essex, and early C19th Birmingham. Internationally, the
name finds it's way to early C18th US (Virginia, then to Missouri
& California), and with further early C19th migrations to
both Australia & the US. Other families, with links, are
given below.
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The Norman PINWILL Memorial Archive for the Name of
POPPLEWELL -
Bequeathed
by my distant POPPLEWELL cousin (3C2R) Norman PINWILL who
died on the 29th December 1999. Norman was, for many years,
the ONS Co-Ordinator for the POPPLEWELL family name.
I
have transferred all his data to computer. Please refer to
the Norman PINWILL Memorial
Archive Index. All the research material is freely
available on this website in exchange for corrections and
additional data to benefit future researchers.
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My POPPLEWELL family has
been traced back to the C17th neighbourhood, especially the
village of Hartshead.
Some
Hartshead MIs for POPPLEWELL:
In memory of
William
POPPLEWELL
of Robertown,
Who died on the 3rd day of August 1856 Aged 65
years of age
Sarah
wife of the
above William
POPPLEWELL
Who
died on the 29th day of April 1868 Aged 74 years
Also
John William POPPLEWELL
son of the above
Who died on the 1st day of January 1891. Aged
70 years
Also Martha
wife of
the above
Who died 23rd of November 1903. Aged 80
years
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Here
was interred the body of John,
the son of
Thomas POPPLEWELL
of
Hartshead
Who departed this life on the 18th December
In
the 9th year of his age.
A . D 1741
Also Elizabeth
the daughter of John and Fanny WOODCOCK
Who died on January
29th 1847. Aged 11 years 4 months
Also the above mentioned
John WOODCOCK
Who died on 3rd June 1847. Aged 47 years
Then
glad I'll lay this body down
Thy servant Lord attend
And
though my life of memory crowned
With a triumphant end.
Also
Fanny wife of the above John WOODCOCK
Who died on June 15th
1880. Aged 86 years
Also Joseph Lee WOODCOCK son of the
above.
Who died May 10th 1892. Aged 58 years.
Also John
WOODCOCK. Born July 20th 1828.
Died December 8th
1896.
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Here
lieth the body of Richard
POPPLEWELL
Sen. of Church house. who departed
this life on the 3rd day of
December 1729. In the 57th year of his age.
Also Abraham
ELSWORTH the son of Michael ELSWORTH of Robertown. Who died
May
18th 1828. Aged 28
years.
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Here
lieth the body of Richard son of William
POPPLEWELL
of Hartshead
Bachelor who departed this life on the 27th day
of May in the 55th year of
his age 1721.
Reader
as he so thou must shortly be.
All flesh grim death is subject
unto thee.
Thus rich and poor mighty as well as mean.
Time
calls and they return to dust again.
Also
the body of Thomas
POPPLEWELL
of Hartshead who died April 28th 1751 in
the 76th year of his
age.
Proceed
to The Norman Pinwill Memorial Index for the Name of POPPLEWELL
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