Brief Life History of William
William Pipe was born in 1410, in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Walter de Pype.
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- Legacy NFS Source: William Pipe - Published information: birth-name: William Pipe
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Name Meaning
English (Suffolk and Somerset):
metonymic occupational name for a piper, from Middle English pipe ‘pipe’ (Old English pīpe). In some cases it may have been a topographic name from the same word in the sense ‘waterpipe, conduit, water channel’, or a habitational name from Pipe in Herefordshire or Pipehill in Staffordshire, near Lichfield (earlier Pipa), both named from this word.
nickname from Middle English pip, a shortened form of pipin ‘pip or seed of a fleshy fruit such as apple or grape’, also ‘apple tree’. It might have been given to someone of small stature.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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