Brief Life History of John
When John Pope was born about 1702, in Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Humphrey Pope Jr, was 29 and his mother, Amey Veale, was 22.
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- Westmoreland County VA Deeds & Wills Book 8, Part 1 (1723-1738), pp. 253-254, Humphrey Pope will
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1775
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Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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