An international surname archive

Copcutt.
A name with a trail.

From sixteenth-century English records to Tasmania, India, New York and the present day: a growing, source-led history of Copcutt and its documented spellings.

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Across oceans & centuries

A surname that travelled.

English place-name origins lead outward through London, India, Tasmania, New York and modern Australia. The archive follows the records rather than forcing a single family tree.

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1561early Copcote bearer
82GB Copcutts in 1881
189later GB frequency in Oxford data
6+spellings indexed
The surname
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centuries of documented spelling change.

One uncommon name. A surprisingly wide geography.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names identifies Copcutt as a locative surname from Cop Court at Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire. Its historical examples travel through Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and London before later records carry the name much farther.

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Featured histories
Tasmania · First World War

William George Copcutt MM

Born in Hobart in 1890, William George Copcutt became a telephone linesman and Australian Imperial Force soldier. Tasmanian government research preserves both his service story and a wider Copcutt family around him.

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Yonkers · New York

John Copcutt and the industrial Hudson

The nineteenth-century trail reaches Yonkers, where John Copcutt became a mill proprietor and landowner. His Italianate mansion survives in the historical record.

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The long trail

England → India → Australia → America

Rather than presenting a wall of names, V5 groups records into stories: early spellings, migration, military service, places and distinct modern public records.

1561 early forms · 19th c. India & New York · 20th c. Australia & war records · today public-name index
Australia

Not a footnote. A major branch of the archive.

Tasmanian military research, public records and later Australian occurrences give the surname a substantial life beyond Britain. The archive separates historical family evidence from contemporary public-name occurrences.

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The people index includes historical figures, public-record leads and distinct Peter/Pete records. Similar names are never silently merged.

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