Tuplin Family History

Perhaps identical with Toplin from Old French tut plein ‘all plain completely’, although the early -pp(e)- spellings tell against this. Perhaps a variant of Turpin with l/r substitution giving Tulpin and then Tuplin by metathesis.

Compare Grace Turpin 1608, Mathew Turpin 1613, William Tupling 1673 in IGI (Benington Lincs), and Johannes Turpyn 1381 in Poll Tax (Freiston Lincs).

Yzabella Turpin 1566, Anne Turpin 1634, Thomas Tuplin 1764 in IGI (Freiston Lincs). A similar change of Turpin to Tulpin and Tuplin in the equivalent French and Flemish surnames is noted in Debrabandere at Tulpin(ck).

However, Turpin and Tuplin(g) could be names of different origin coinciding in the same parishes; see (1).