Brief Life History of Child
Child Tupper was born about 1752, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. He died in 1752, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
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Name Meaning
English: variant of Topper .
German (Tüpper; North Rhine-Westphalia): occupational name for a potter, from Middle Low German duppe, Rhenish düppen ‘pot’. This surname is very rare in Germany.
History: This is the name of a family descended from two brothers, originally from Kassel, Germany. They fled religious persecution in the 16th century, settling in the Netherlands, where a descendant became burgomaster of Rotterdam in 1813. A branch of the family settled in England at Sandwich, Kent, whence another descendant, Thomas Tupper, went to America in 1635, and helped to found Sandwich, MA, in 1637. Benjamin Tupper, born in Stoughton, MA, in 1738 was a colonial legislator and explorer of OH.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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