Heslop Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Heslop Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Heslop

The Heslop family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of Heslop include Hazlip, Heslip, Heyslip, Hyslop, Heslep, Hislop, Haslop, Heslop, Heyslop, Haslip and Huslop. This is a locational name and was taken from the old Norse 'Hesli' meaning 'Dweller in the hazel valley'. This sept originated in Munster . They were found before the 18th century in Munster but most of them later migrated to Cavan and Down. The earliest reference to the name was Francis Haslopp who lived in Ballyharaghan Castle, in the parish of Ruan, County Clare, he being a Protestant deponent, in the year 1642. Thirty years later Francis Hasclopp of Killeedy, County Limerick appears as a referee in a bounds dispute near O'Brien's Bridge, County Clare. By the 19th century most of the name had migrated to Ulster and today that is where most are to be found.