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I have been researching the DE LOPHAM name too
which is not mentioned in Burkes peerage - neither is LAPHAM
so we are very much a middle class lot when education was available to our ancestors, and country people, yeoman farmers and agricultural labourers in Kilmington - the poorest of the poor workers.
I have found some soldiers and sailors, and weavers and metal workers as the industrial revolution took place - the Birmingham England branch for example.
The name "OF or FROM" LOPHAM was invented when the oldest ancestor moved from the villages of North Lopham and South Lopham to a market town, or later to London
There were a couple of LOPHAM as lawyers in London
at about the time the spelling changed to LAPHAM
>> Apprentice Lopham of the Court of the King's Bench 1407 and 1410
1415 Thomas Lopham (John's son) appointed serjeant-at-law
1372 Little Carlton manor comes to John Lopham
googling LOPHAM will find you the references
this research is very much at a preliminary stage of questions to be followed up by double checking archives.
Doing english family history before the 1837 is by parish registers back to the seventeeth century, and before that by property records, and wills most of which are not on line or even photographed.
there will always be gaps so far back (if not noble families with recoreded pedigrees)
and because DE LOPHAM is a geographical description, it is likely that the earliest bearers of that name do not need to be blood relatives.
http://ancestry.co.uk
Joseph Lopham abt 1816 Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, England Head Eaton Socon Bedfordshire
is cleary written as LOPHAM in the 1861 image but that could by an error made in 1861 by the copy clerk
http://www.originsnetwork.com/
has some LOPHAM marriages in Norfolk and Suffolk in Boyd's Marriage Index (1538-1840)
but again this is like IGI an INDEX which needs to be checked against original documents
England and Wales Census 1841 has no LOPHAM
England and Wales Census 1841 197 LAPHAM
none of which are still in Norfolk or Suffolk
34 in Wiltshire
134 in Somerset
10 in Gloucestershire in Bitton or Bristol or FROCESTER
see the web pages
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lapham
http://lapham2005.blogspot.com/ and folow the links in the sidebar too
enjoy
Hugh W
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