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Queripel Family History

Queripel Surname Meaning

Believed to be a nickname for a cantankerous or uncooperative person, it is apparently from a Norman French expression involving carrue ‘plough’ (noun or the stem of the verb; modern Guernsey French tchéruaï ‘to plough’) + pé (earlier pel) ‘fur’. The exact import of the expression ‘plough fur’ is not clear.

However, some sense of what it might mean is offered by the Jersey French expression touônner à r'bours-pé ‘to plough against the (nap of the) fur’, applied to mean ‘to plough the first furrow working in the opposite direction to what is needed for the rest of the task’.

The modern form of the Guernsey name with Qu- reflects a pronunciation with /k-/ derived from continuing use of the spelling in older documents.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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You can see how Queripel families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Queripel family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Queripel families were found in United Kingdom in 1891. In 1891 there were 77 Queripel families living in Channel Islands. This was 100% of all the recorded Queripel's in United Kingdom. Channel Islands had the highest population of Queripel families in 1891.
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What did your Queripel ancestors do for a living?

In 1939, Unpaid Domestic Duties was the top reported job for people in the United Kingdom named Queripel. 100% of Queripel women worked as an Unpaid Domestic Duties.

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Top Female Occupations In 1939

  • Unpaid Domestic Duties
    100%

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Between 1965 and 2001, in the United States, Queripel life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1978, and highest in 1999. The average life expectancy for Queripel in 1965 was 69, and 74 in 2001.

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