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Copas Family History

This interesting name has three distinct possible origins. Firstly the surname may derive from the Medieval English 12th Century word, "cope", meaning "a long cloak or cape", hence the name may be metronymic for a "maker of cloaks and capes". The name may perhaps also be of English topographical origin, for "a dweller on the hill top, from the Anglo-Saxon "cop", or the Old English "copp", meaning "hill top". Finally the name may have originated as an English locational name, from the lands of Cope in the parish of Kirn Newton, Northumberland.