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SUPPLE Family History

Recorded as Chapel, Chappell, Chapple, Capewell (English), Capelle, Chappelle, de la Chappelle, Chappel (French), Supple (Irish), and possibly others, this is a surname of medieval French origins. In troduced into England after the famous Conquest by the Norman-French in 1066, it is locational from any of the various places called Chapel or Chappelle or topographical for someone who lived close to a chapel. The ultimate origination is the Roman (Latin) "capella", meaning a hood or cloak, but later transferred to the sense of a chapel or sanctuary.