On October 13-15, 2023, participate in Geneanet's 'Save our Graves' Weekend!

Last name: CATCHPOLE

Back
Welcome at Geneanet!

Welcome at Geneanet!

With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 8 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.

Discover Geneanet

All you have to know about the last name CATCHPOLE

Last name frequency

CATCHPOLE : This last name is indexed 25,561 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

CATCHPOLE : English (mainly East Anglia): from Middle English (Anglo-Norman French) cachepol ‘one who collects debts a sheriff's officer or sergeant a petty bailiff’. It is a northern French form of Old French chacepol ‘tax gatherer’ from Old French chacier cacher ‘to chase catch seize’ + Old French pol ‘fowl cock’ or pole ‘hen chicken pullet’. It was common practice in the middle ages for poultry to be taken as tax or rental payment especially from poorer folk but this etymological sense of the French word is largely irrelevant to the activities of the English catchpoles whose job was to arrest debtors who had been fined for offences against local byelaws.

Learn more

Variants of last name

The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.

Search a name

Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.

Most popular first names

Most indexed places

Most indexed countries

Available collections for this name