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  • Abigail Temple (1697 - 1771)
    Some confusion between Abigails: Abigail Merriam, Abigail Stone, Abigail Waite. This Abigail, whoever her parents, married Benjamin Temple at age 21 and lived to be 77 years old. She was not married to...
  • Abigail Temple (1746 - 1817)
  • Abraham Temple (c.1597 - c.1640)
    Abraham Temple was in Salem, Mass., in 1636. He was the first of the name on American soil. His first assignment of land was evidently five acres. November 21, 1638, five acres additional were granted ...
  • Albernia Temple (1903 - 1990)
    Albernia Brady Temple BIRTH 20 Oct 1903 DEATH 1 Mar 1990 (aged 86) BURIAL Palestine Cemetery Montrose, Jasper County, Mississippi, USA MEMORIAL ID 43675232 · View Source MEMORIAL PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 1 Fa...
  • Alice Gallop (c.1491 - d.)
    Source: Gallup Genealogy 2009 edition, Vol 1. From Gallup Genealogy, Vol 1, 2009. "John Gollop, the earliest known ancestor of John Gallop, the immigrant to America, was John Gollop, who came "out of...

About the Temple surname

The ancient surname Temple is indisputably associated with the Knight Templars, crusaders of the 12th century. For most name holders it is of early medieval English or French origin. Temple can apply to a horse soldier employed as a Templar, or someone who worked at the knights headquarters known as the Temple. In England the surname Temple was also given to foundlings baptized at the Temple Church, London, so called because it was built on land belonging to the Templars.

The surname may also be of Scottish locational origin, from the parish of Temple in Edinburgh, so called because it was the site of the local headquarters of the Knights Templar.

Variations: Temple, Tempel, Tempell, Temprell

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