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These two family surnames are not the same.
Several years back, I talked briefly to a Sleper in Ft. Worth when I lived there, briefly. He knew he was not our "Sleeper" name.
Then, some yrs. later, I was in written communication with a lady named Slepar/Sleper. [This lady lived Provo, Utah, I believe. Here is the story. When this particular Sleper came to the States in the 1800's --much later than Thomas Sleeper of Hampton, etc.--they found the name Sleeper and thought they had to be some relation. In all the years, their family history has spelled their name: Sleper, Slepar, & Sleeper.
According to what she told me, they now know they should be "Sleper" as originally from Germany; and not Sleeper as from England, nor Slepar.
If any connection has to be found, in my mind, we would have to go back further than 1510 in England and see where the Sleeper name in England originated from.
There was a Thomas Sleeper in England in 1510; his wife's name is unknown; His son, Richard, was born 1538, etc. Check the LDS Library records.
Virginia Sleeper-Terry
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