Släkthistoria för Harcup
Harcup Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from a Middle English *hert-cop ‘crown of a hart's head’. For the sense compare Magota Hertesheued 1379 in Poll Tax (Edlington WR Yorks) ‘hart's head’ and Willelmus Hertheyd 1381 in Poll Tax (Stillingfleet ER Yorks) ‘hart head’ and therefore also the place-name Hartshead (WR Yorks).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
