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Topic: Hipps Decendants
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dellahoward
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posted 03-12-2002 04:55 PM
  
I am looking for anyone that has knowledge or a website link of the Hipps family from Holland?netherlands?or Wales? Please help me. My great grandmother died and I cannot find the information she had left for our family. |
Marko
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posted 03-12-2002 06:36 PM
Hmm, the name doesn't sound or looks Dutch at all. A little search for Hipps family members in the Netherlands turned up nothing. No, I think it's more an English name.
Btw. Holland and Netherlands are two names for the same country of which the first is more popular and the second more accurate.------------------
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Peter
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posted 03-15-2002 04:10 PM
Sorry to take so long in posting something for you .. just been a busy week.
Have not found any connections with the name here in Wales. Although the names Happs & Hepps exist.
I did find one in the Netherlands;
C.H. Hipp, born 1787, Hoorn, N-lln.
Also Hepp and Hupp.
The name does occur in many places in the U.K. But is strongest in the more southern counties. |
dellahoward
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posted 03-19-2002 09:58 PM
Thank you for your response. What would be the dutch translation for hipps? |
Peter
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posted 03-20-2002 04:39 PM
Hm !
As I took the information from a site dedicated to Dutch names .. that might be it.
Came across this whilst looking for something else in the week;
Hippis, John (Hypps) (1515), Marbler of Lincoln; on April 6th 1515 contracted to make a tomb for John Willoughby, son of Sir Henry Willoughby, in Woolaton Church, Notts. for £5. 6s 8d. It was apparently to be of alabaster, bearing brasses.I should think the form 'Hypps' is the origin of the many forms of 'Hipps'. |
dellahoward
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posted 03-20-2002 06:02 PM
WOW! Where did you get this info and how can i get more? |
Peter
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posted 03-21-2002 02:35 PM
The info was from a specialised book;
English Medieval Architects, by John Harvey.
Published by Alan Sutton, 1987.
A huge, rather boring tome, that does contain many snippets of information. A change from counting sheep I assure you. |
Marko
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posted 03-21-2002 06:12 PM
There is no dutch translation for the name Hipps. The word hips is only used to describe the sound a drunken person makes whose got the hiccups ;-) |
dellahoward
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posted 03-21-2002 08:31 PM
So Peter, what do you think of Marko's translation? |
Peter
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posted 03-22-2002 03:11 PM
Naughty dellahoward, but I like your style !
We are at Marko's mercy here I think. But if I recall Marko's profession .. I should he's met a few of them ... right ? |
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