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Durham / Re: KIRSOP; Lanchester area
« on: Monday 14 August 06 22:44 BST (UK)  »
yes I have you as the source for this branch
I have a number of Kirsop(p)s in Shotley Bridge but no certain links

There was a marriage of William Kirsopp and mary Bainbridge in 1787
William Kirsopp and Mary Robinson in 1799
Joseph Kirsop and isabel Tait in 1800
Thomas Kirsop and Isabel Robson in 1808 they appear to have had a daughter judith

one of these could be your ancestor but I have no definative link




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Durham / Re: KIRSOP; Lanchester area
« on: Saturday 12 August 06 07:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi I am researching the kirsop Family name as my mother was the last of one branch of the kirsop family

she was Mary Bolton Kirsop born 1924 in Newcast

Her family came from Wickham blaydon Winlaton area
father alfred ernest Kirsop b 1886
G F Matthew b1861`
GGF William b 1827
GGGF William b 1800

It has been suggested that one reason for the changes of spelling was to distinguish between Protestant and Catholic branches of the family but the spelling at times seems interchangable and a few other variations including Kirshop and Kersop

The origin of the name I have been told was Kershope burn on the Scotish borders near Newcastleton and that the Family name possibly derived from Kerr were border rievers.  Certainly the name appears to migrate down through Northumberland to the tyne vally into Durham

in the 1881 and 1901 census Cumberland Northumberland and Durham is the mainstay of the name distribution. One Kirsop family moved from Alston to oversee the lead mines in  Arachle in Scotland  and later Joseph Kirsop became a methodist minister who moved around the country,

Latest distribution of the surname makes it most frequent around Hertfordshire and there is details of one family group moving to hertfordshire to find work in the building industry in early 1900s which appears to be the source of this group

I have collected many details of Kirsops some of which are linked others which are unattached at present

I am happy to share any details wich are of interest

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