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Oxepring Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Oxspring,' a village in the parish of Penistone, W. Kid. Yorkshire There is good evidence that all who bear this name, wherever settled in later times, spring from this spot.

Richard de Oxpring Yorkshire 1273.

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Oxepring Surname Distribution Map

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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582

Oxepring Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Oxspring,' a village in the parish of Penistone, W. Kid. Yorkshire There is good evidence that all who bear this name, wherever settled in later times, spring from this spot.

Richard de Oxpring Yorkshire 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Matilda de Oxpring, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

William Oxpring, 1379: ibid.

Gervase de Ospringe: Pipe Roll, 11 Henry II.

Ofspring is a manifest corruption, although a manor named Offspring is mentioned (a.d. 1273; v. A.) in the Hundred of Folkestone, Kent.

Thomas Ofspringe, alias Oxspringe, of Kent, whoe came out of Yorkshire.'

His son Charles Ofspringe was rector of St. Antholin's, London, in 1634: Visitation of London, 1635.

No doubt Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (1654-1716), born in London, was a connexion, as surnames turned into fontal names were becoming fashionable at that period.

1771. Married — Offspring Webb and Mary Withington: St. George, Hanover Square.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

OXSPRINGE: A township in the West Riding of Yorkshire, whore the family anciently resided.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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