When Margaret Whipp was christened on 30 January 1741, in Downham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Whipp, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Ellell, was 37. She died on 11 April 1743, at the age of 2, and was buried in Downham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Wippe (Old English Wippa, of unexplained etymology but apparently attested in the Isle of Wight placename Whippingham and in an Anglo-Saxon field name Wippan hoh ‘Wippa's hill-spur’). Alternatively, perhaps from Middle English whip(pe), wipp(e) ‘whip’, either as an occupational name for someone who used a whip, as corporal punishment or to drive or control animals, or a nickname for a lively, quick-moving person, or someone generally in a hurry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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