Vipond, Vipont - Huguenots?

[davisd]

I've been working on a family named Vipond in London. While not ancestors, one of mine married a Thomas Vipond in 1783 and I've managed (I think) to get back to a Benjamin Vipont who married Mary Walker in 1733. There was a family of them in Bermondsey and in Marylebone. There is all goes blank.

Does anyone know if they may have been Huguenots who left France at the end of the 17thc? They appear in Cumberland and Yorkshire in the early 18thc but I can't find them anywhere else.

[Kloumann]

The Vipond surname is of Norman origin, coming originally from a place called Vieuxpont in Calvados, France. It is not on the Huguenot society list of names.

[davisd]

The Vipond surname is of Norman origin, coming originally from a place called Vieuxpont in Calvados, France. It is not on the Huguenot society list of names.

Thank you - I figured it was French but wondered why they didn't appear sooner in England.

[GrahamSimons]

With different spelling we've just discovered an early (13th century) priest in our village, Gerard de Vuippens, who returned to the Continent and then became Bishop of Lauseanne an then of Basel. There must be no realistic hope of tracing back that far to see if there's a link, but it's a fascinating thought!

[Skoosh]

Black's Surnames, "The Scottish Vipont's are descended from William de Vipont who gave the church of Horueresdene to the Abbey of  Kelso, 1165 and witnessed a charter by William the Lion around the same time!"
 This family also held the lands of Carriden on the Forth and granted a tithe of his coal and a tithe of the profits from ships using Blackness to the Abbey of Holyrood. Gifted Sorbie in Wigtown to the Abbey of Dryburgh.
 Sir William de Vipont, the sixth baron was one of the "two worthy knights" slain on the Scottish side at Bannockburn, his estates passed to a daughter Mariota thence to the Cockburn's.
 The Vipont's were amongst the earliest landowners in Fife, an old fisherman's refrain runs "The leal gudeman of Aberdour sits in Sir Alan Vipont's chair!"
 Apparently now very rare but Dougie Vipont, the drummer in "Deacon Blue!" hails from Elderslie, now a broadcaster.

Bests,
Skoosh.

[davisd]

Black's Surnames, "The Scottish Vipont's are descended from William de Vipont who gave the church of Horueresdene to the Abbey of  Kelso, 1165 and witnessed a charter by William the Lion around the same time!"
 This family also held the lands of Carriden on the Forth and granted a tithe of his coal and a tithe of the profits from ships using Blackness to the Abbey of Holyrood. Gifted Sorbie in Wigtown to the Abbey of Dryburgh.
 Sir William de Vipont, the sixth baron was one of the "two worthy knights" slain on the Scottish side at Bannockburn, his estates passed to a daughter Mariota thence to the Cockburn's.
 The Vipont's were amongst the earliest landowners in Fife, an old fisherman's refrain runs "The leal gudeman of Aberdour sits in Sir Alan Vipont's chair!"
 Apparently now very rare but Dougie Vipont, the drummer in "Deacon Blue!" hails from Elderslie, now a broadcaster.

Bests,
Skoosh.

Well that's fascinating!

[vipondshafto]

The Viponds were originally called de Veteripont, (sometimes spelt 'Vieuxpont' (of the Old Bridge) as others have commented.  They arrived in England around the time of the Norman Conquest and were given lands in the North Pennine area originally. They stayed there for many generations, with descendants working in Durham, Newcastle, Sunderland, London and Kendal amongst other areas. The name was gradually modified/corrupted  from De Veteripont to Vipond and/or Vipont (originally pronounced Veepon which is the French pronunciation of Vipond). Branches of the family became Quaker and there are still Quaker Viponds in Cumberland and all over the world. I am descended from them, as well as from Huguenots, with my branch being called Massis (often now seen in England as the Anglicised form, Massey and even Mossey.