Wapling
The English family name Wapling is classified as being of personal name origin.
According to scholars the "oldest and most pervasive type of surnameis that derved from a given name". Such family names may be derived from a parental first name or from the font name of the grandfather or indeed a more remote ancestor of the original bearer of the surname. With regard to the family name Wapling, it indicates "son of Wapling", a diminutive form of the Old English first name "Wappa", which is derived from the Old English word "wapna" meaning "weapon".
One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of one Anne Wapling, daughter of Emma Wapling, whose birth is registered in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, in 1600. However, research is of course ongoing and this name may have been documented even earlier than the date indcated above. Sarah Wapling and Thomas Watkins were married in Bradwell-Near-The Sea, Co. Essex in 1706 and the wedding of William Wapling and Mary Nunn is recorded in Great Finborough, Co. Suffolk in 1723. Jonathan Wapling, son of Jonathan Wapling and Sarah Wapling, was christened in Naughton, Co.Suffolk, in 1725.
The modern spelling of most English surnames is comparitvely recent and is usually a phonetic rendering of the name which is found in parish registersof the seventeenth and eighteenth century. However, it should be noted that the name itself, in its various orthographic forms, may have been borne by the same family for a a previous three to four hundred years.
As to the present time there is no record of bearers of this name being granted a blaxon of arms, therefore the arms decscribed below are the national arms of their country of origin.
| BLAZON of ARMS | Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or. |
| CREST | Upon the royal helmet, the imperial crown proper, thereon statant guardant or, a lion imperially crowned also proper. |
| ORIGIN | ENGLAND |
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