Dear Teri, though one shouldn't speculate on a name's origin with no documentation, I'm going to anyway. It looks like a surname derived from a place-name. 1a) Assume the Hee- is correct, this could be pronounced as, and derived from, Hey- 1b) Assume -trop is a version of -throp so version 1) comes from some place like Heythrop in Oxfordshire 2) Assume the name starts with Fleet- or Flet- (erm, I don't any Fleet places ending in anything that would suit and the Flet- places are all Fletch-). So, even though I would plump for the Oxfordshire name, it does not rule out an Irish origin as, during the Plantation times (late 16th century), many English families were encouraged to settle in Ireland to displace the Catholic Irish Teri100@aol.com wrote: >Hi > >Please could anyone tell me if they are aware of a surname like Heetrop? >The H could be Fl & the e's could be anything (even just one letter), but >the rest does look like trop. > >I have two birth certificates with the surname but I can't work it out, I >believe that she came from Ireland (taken from census info). > >If anyone has any ideas I'd be most grateful. > >thanks >Teresa > > >==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== >Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/ > > > > >