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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly East Anglia) : from Anglo-Norman French cachepol (a compound of cache(r) ‘to chase’ + pol ‘fowl’), an occupational name for a bailiff, originally one empowered to seize poultry and other livestock in case of default on debts or taxes.

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