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Hello John
your information on the origins of HEASLIP fits with some of my information. My ancestors, who arrived in South Australia in 1851, kept diaries. The folloing is from The Heaslip Diaries compiled by James A. Heaslip, Printed for Private Circulation July 1991. [South Australia]
"Soldiers from Holland who fought for William of Orange, ruler of the Netherlands in 1690 when Ireland was captured in the Battle of the Boyne from the English Catholic King James ll, stayed on in part, settled in the north, and married Scottish and Irish girls. Among the soldiers were the Hazelips (the literal meaning of which is Valley of the Hazel Trees). Over the years the original spelling of the name has changed to the present form of Heaslip. The families were originally found in Munster but later settled in County Cavan."
Your date of an Heslop in Ayr in 1414 makes our story of the soldiers seem quite wrong. Unless of course both events took place.
At least we agree on the origin of the word. Thanks for your posting.
Rosalie nee Heaslip, Western Australia
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