Genealogy Chat

Does anyone know where this name originats from?Looking for ancestors and i know where they come from but this name has cropped up and does not sound english.Annie

Found this when I googled it www(.)home(.)att(.)net/~walkup/index(.)htm remove brackets Gloria

There once was a football player called Polua waunchope who played for derby, he was from costa rica.

where do the ancestors come from grannie? scotland somewhere?

Yes they are from Scotland. Annie

Hi Annie, Have just looked up the origin of the name on spatial-literacy.org and it said 'unclassified'. jay

I know some SOuth African Wauchopes - contact me if you want contacts

Hi Annie Wauchope (pronounced walk-up) is a famous local name where I live! There are streets named after the family, there was once a mansion house, which unfortunately is no more, although the family mausoleum is still standing. My children's school has a monument in it's ground's dedicated to Major General Andrew Wauchope, who lived in the mansion house, and died in the Boer war. There's loads of stuff about them if you google. best wishes Christine

Thank you very much all of you. Christine thats very interesting.I am having a bad time at the moment trying to track down my g grandmothers family.I remember her very well and her sisters but trying to find them is even harder.Her name being Smith and dad said she travelled down from Scotland when she was 14.Found a Smith family in West Ham in 1891 and 1901 from Scotland without my gran though and a Margaret had married into this name.Gran had a sister Margaret.The census 1901 only had her daughter Ellen so wondering if they lived in Scotland.Dad did not have a clue where gran was in Scotland Waiting now for grans marriage cert to see who her dad was.Annie

Wauchope (pronounce warhope) is also a town in NSW, Australia that is mainly associated with the timber industry. Paul