Släkthistoria för Surplice
Surplice Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps a de-palatalized variant of Sharples (i.e. *Sarples) altered by folk etymology to resemble surplice ‘white overgarment worn by Anglican priests and choristers’. Sharples Sharpless and Sharplus are Lancs surnames which appear in London and the Midlands in the post-medieval period. The change in the vowel to Sherp- spelled Shurp- probably originated in Lancs itself though it happens to be recorded later than in more southerly counties: Sarah Shurples 1743 Edward Sharples 1852 in IGI (Gorton Lancs); Robert Sharpless 1823 James Surplus 1855 in IGI (Preston Lancs); Edward Sharples 1868 in IGI Thomas Surpluss 1881 in IGI (Barrow in Furness Lancs).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
