People of Medieval Scotland
1093 - 1371

Uhting Cachepol (Catchpole)

Biography
This surname is modernised as Catchpole. See list of metonymic occupational surnames. From Old Norman French cachepol, ‘chase fowl’, initially a person who chased poultry in default of money, for a tax gatherer or ‘petty officer of justice, especially a warrant officer who arrests for debt’. Reaney and Wilson, 87. Reaney, Origin of English Surnames, 160, 281; Thuresson, Middle English Occupational Terms, 145.

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21 Nov. 1232 X 6 Jun. 1237 cachepol (M) 3/8/10 (Lind. Cart., no. 18)


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21 Nov. 1232 X 6 Jun. 1237 toft in Inverbervie Holder (possession) 3/8/10 (Lind. Cart., no. 18)