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HEASLIP Family History

This is an English locational name, found particularly in Northumberland and comes from an unidentified place in northern England, more usually described as a "lost" village. There are many examples of such places that now exist, in surnames or in ancient records. Villages were "cleared" in the 14th Century to make way for sheep pastures and were sometimes left deserted by natural disasters such as the Black Death of 1348 or accidents of war. The placename derives from the Old English pre 7th Century "haesel" (or the Old Norse "hesli") meaning "hazel tree", with "hop", an enclosed valley.