So, How do you spell it?
To summarise:
The basics are Taplen, Taplin, Tepl* [rare], Tipl*, Topl*, Tupl*; * usually ending -en, -in, -ing, -yn, -yng. Sometimes ending just -ey or y, particularly in records before 1850 or thereabouts, unless you know your family still sometimes used it after that.
Then there's the *ppl* version of everything.
The *plaine, *pleyn and variants thereof are usually only found in older records, but could have hung on.
Anyone you think might be called T*pl* in other circumstances is worth including: get someone to say it with something in their mouth, holding their nose, crying, mumbling, etc., and write what you hear. Some burial records have some wierd spellings...
In case the l of pl was so soft or slurred it wasn’t heard I also note the presence of Tappen, Tapping, Tippen, Tipping, Toppen, Topping, Tuppen, and Tupping in registers or other sources, even if I don’t record them. If I know the reference I can always go back for them.
Then watch out for the simple errors and poor handwriting that can happen when the writer is under pressure, such as leaving the final n looking like r ; when this is transcribed it can lead to further misunderstandings.
At least if you've included every variant you can think of, you know they should be in there somewhere, even if it was mis-pronounced, mis-heard or mis-spelt...
Despite all that, the online search missed this one:
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