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ASPELL Family History

This name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is locational from a place in Suffolk called Aspall, recorded as "Aspala" in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "aesp" meaning "aspen", plus "halh", a nook or remote valley. Hence, "the halh overgrown with Aspens." The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 14th Century, (see below). The following quotation from "The History of Norfolk" by Blomefield and Parkin reads "She gave her manors of Stonhall and Aspal, in Suffolk, which came by her mother daughter and Co-heir of Sir John de Aspal", (1385)...