Shopland One-Name Study

(Click on picture to enlarge) Four generations of my SHOPLAND family

Shopland
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Shopland One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Historical occurrences
Frequency of the name
Distribution of the name
Data
Links
Contact Details

About the Shopland One-Name Study

This is a study of the surname SHOPLAND. If you are reading this then maybe you have an interest in the name. If you have, please send me an email so that we can exchange information.

The name is mentioned in 'The Penguin Dictionary of SURNAMES' and states that it is a surname recording localities or places where ancestors originated and it is from Old English and means 'island with a shed/shop'.

Variants

SHAPLAND, SHIPLAND, SHOPLIND, SHOPPLAN, SHOPELAND.

Origin of the surname

Shopland is an ecclesiastical parish in Essex a few miles northeast of Southend-on-Sea and the place name has existed for more than one thousand years albeit in various spelling forms. In ‘The Place Names of Essex’ the earliest date given is 946 with the Shopland spelling appearing in about 1257. It is recorded in The Domesday Book as a farm and a row of cottages called Scopelands and is listed on today’s Ordnance Survey map as Shopland Hall. In another publication, ‘The History of Rochford Hundred, Shopland’, there is a detailed historical account of the Shopland parish.

Historical occurrences

Count Eustace was holding the Shopland land in 1086 when Domesday was written. About a year later his lands in England were forfeited after he was involved in a conspiracy against King William. The lands were restored to Eustace at a later date but it is not known if Shopland was amongst these lands.

In the ‘Feet of Fines for Essex’, vol I & II, 1899, we read that in October 1199 a Baldwin de Scopiland, who was a tenant of 60 acres of land in Scopiland, shall do foreign service therefore. The name William de Scopiland is also mentioned in the ‘Feet of Fines for Essex’ in the year 1208-1209: he was a tenant of 15 acres of land with appurts in Scopiland. The name Robert de Shopiland(e) who lived in Mornotone (North Molton, Devon) appeared in the ‘Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238’, Kalendar of Juries. Shopland was later owned by the Fitzwalter family in Henry III’s reign (1216-1272).

(Many thanks to Bob Shopland for his kind permission to print the origin of the surname and historical occurances information. Bob has spent many hours researching Shopland references and I am grateful I can share this information.)

Frequency of the name

The Shopland name in all its various forms appeared from 946 through to the present day. From the GRO index between the years 1837 to 1984 there were 1,475 births, 1,057 marriages and from the 1901 census there were only 501 Shopland names recorded. From the 'ONS Names - Search the List' web site (see the link below) there were 613 Shoplands counted in England, Wales and the Isle of Mann in September 2002 and the ranking was 9,683!

Distribution of the name

In the 16th century, Shopland's were living mostly in Devon and Somerset and from there migrated to other counties and countries mainly the USA, Canada and Australia. The table below shows the distribution of the name from the GRO starting in 1837.

1837 Pembrokeshire

1838 Devon

1838 London

1840 Somerset

1840 Lancashire

1843 Yorkshire

1846 Essex

1846 Sussex

1848 Oxfordshire

1849 Cornwall

1849 Surrey

1852 Gloucestershire

1856 Kent

1858 Glamorganshire

1862 Wiltshire

1862 Northumberland

1867 Hertfordshire

1869 Hampshire

1874 Warwickshire

1876 Durham

1877 Northamptonshire

1880 Radnorshire

1881 Middx

1881 Staffordshire

1881 Monmouthshire

1884 Derbyshire

1885 Nottinghamshire

1900 Breconshire

1902 Carmarthenshire

1902 Norfolk

1927 Denbighshire

1930 Huntingdonshire

1937 Bedfordshire

1939 Worcestershire

1951 Cambridgeshire

1954 West Suffolk

1959 Cheshire

1965 Buckinghamshire

1980 Cumberland

Data

A database is kept of all the GRO birth, marriage and death events from 1837 to 1984 with spouses name in many cases on the marriage database up to 1912. Most 1841 census entries have been identified and linked and a record kept of most of the people from the 1851 to 1901 censuses.

Links

http://www.shoplandfamily.co.uk

ONS Name - Search the List - http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mrs Rita E Rainbird
E-mail:

This page last updated 8 March 2008.