When Joseph Aloysius Whippen was born on 21 June 1903, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Henry Whippen, was 29 and his mother, Ellen Veronica Barrett, was 27. He married Mary Catherine Chase on 2 November 1924, in Brighton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States in 2010.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): shortened form of the Anglo-Norman surname Fitzpain ‘son of Pain’ (see Payne ).
English: variant of Phipp with the West Midlands Middle English genitive singular -en instead of the more usual -s, see Phipps . Alternatively, perhaps from the unattested Middle English personal names Phippon or Phippin, which could be Old French pet forms of Philip , though they are not on record.
Irish: perhaps an altered form of Thigpen by association or confusion with the name in (1). The 17th-century Thigpen and Phippen families in NC were apparently related.
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