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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 well or spring.
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.
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. DNA tests of potential distant male relatives may 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, when the village name had 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 (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), 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.
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, Other POPPLEWELL Links (Researchers
& Contacts):
The Norman Pinwill Memorial Index for the Name of POPPLEWELL |
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