Pyle One Name Study

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Welcome to the Pyle One Name Study; The objective of this study is to compile a comprehensive database of historical and genealogical records for the surname Pyle and its varied spellings.

Surname Origins and/or Surname Meaning

Pyle Name Meaning; English: from Middle English pile ‘stake’, ‘post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike’, ‘javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark or a metonymic occupational name for a stake maker or a nickname for a tall strong man. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.^[1]

Another source suggests "The surname Pyle is claimed to be synonymous with or derived from that of "Peel"; meaning a fortified farm house; a Northumberland Clan adopted this name with the spelling "Pyle" as their surname.^[2]

Variations of Spelling and Usage

PALEY; PEEL; PEELE; PELL; PILE ; PILON; POLE; POLEY; POOL; POOLE; POOLEY; PULLEY and ; PYE; PYLE; PYLES

Links to the different variants surname index

• Paley
• Peel
• Peele
• Pell
• Pile
• Pilon
• Pole
• Poley
• Pool
• Poole
• Pooley
• Pulley
• Pye
• Pyle
• Pyles

By the Way...

Pyle Name written with Chinese letters: 派尔 (pinyin: pài ěr)

Pyle reversed is Elyp

History

• See History of the Last Name Pyle

• Pile or Pyle is a name that has long been associated with Exeter and its neighbourhood.

1. George Pyle was sheriff of Exeter in 1620 (I.).
2. Pile was a common name in Exmouth in the 17th century (Webb).
3. The name still mostly gathers round Exeter and its district.^[3]

• From pil, a little hillock; also a sea ditch or salt-water trench, a trench filled at high water, a little harbour. According to Lhuyd, pill is also a manor or lordship^[4]

• Who fifty rock-rear’d pyles and castles...^[5]

• (English) One who came from Pylle (creek), in Somerset; dweller at a creek or small castle^[6]

• The same as Peel. There is a Northumbrian clan of this surname^[7]

• The same as Peel-a small tower. Halliwell^[8]

• http://forebears.io/surnames/pyle

• Pics of Pyle Named Places in the UK

• Rev. Thomas Pyle
• Tom Pyle English Footballer

Members

• Katie Pyle-my Pyle Brick wall : Reuben Pyle
• Liz Shifflett - my Pyle brick wall: Hannah (Pyle) Van Meter

Goals

1. The goal is to connect the American Pyle's with their emigrant ancestor, through reliable research which includes credible Sources for the descendants that follow.
2. Locate reliable sources for each branch of the Pyle lineage, to include all variations of spelling; and connect them to the Pyle Project
3. Develop a linked spreadsheet to the project listing all relevant profiles that have been identified; group by Spelling of Surname; name of emigrant; and Port of departure/date and Port of entry/date and related family members

1. Bibliographic information: QR code for Genealogy of the Pyle Family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania; Title: Genealogy of the Pyle Family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania: A Record of the Descendants of Robert, Nicholas and Ralph Pyle, Colonial Settlers in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1683; Sons of Robert and Martha Pyle; Author: Joshua Eyre Hannum; Published; 1956;
   1. Pyle, Howard. The Pyle-Pile Family in America, 1642-1980 (Kokomo, Indiana, 1981)
   2. First Families of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1; Volume II
   3. Early Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1; Volume II; by John Pitts Launey

GENERAL SOURCES

• Pyle family source Page
• Family Genealogy Publications on diff Surnames
• Surname Finder-Pyle Genealogy
• Internet archive search engine
• Genealogy website
• Wikitree Sources Page
• Wikitree Pyle Index
• Google books for Pyle
• Pyle Surname list of publications-books with links
• [Social Security Master Index begin DOB 1800
• Findagrave-Pyle
• Billion Graves search for Pyle
• Church Records
• Dead Fred Genealogy Photos for Pyle
• wiki app demo for Brick wall profiles

Resources Section

(Include credible sources for different family units; by location (i.e. Chester Co., Pennsylvania); Emigrant name and/or origin; Include links whenever you can; List published books with links; websites dedicated to your surname)

• Pyle Family History 1594-1954
• Wiltshire England

  Registers of Bishop Cannings Wiltshire 1591-1811

• Robert Pyle the Emigrant
• Cemeteries with a lot of Pyle's

1. Union Hill Cemetery, Kennett Square
2. Grace Lawn Memorial Park
3. Carter Cemetery

Pennsylvania Pyle

• Chester Co., Genealogy

• Pyle Family

• Pennsylvania Sources

• Early Pennsylvania Settler Sources

• Colonial and Revolutionary families of Pennsylvania

• History of Chester County Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Biographical sketches by cope

• Ebook: Historic Homes and Institutions

• Pyle's Twin Bridges-Historic

North Carolina and Kentucky Pyle

• History of Christian County, Kentucky-Pyle

• Dunaway-Allder-Pyle by Jane Dunaway, M.D

• Pyle's Defeat

• Genealogy of the Dodson (Dotson) Lucas, Pyles, Rochester, and allied families By Silas Emmett Lucas

Maryland Pyle's

• https://www.americandairy.com/dairy-farms/farm-families/pyle-family.stml

Publications and Written works

• Cope, Gilbert; Fishwick, Henry; Chester, Joseph Lemuel (1887) Genealogy of the Sharpless family, descended from John and Jane Sharples, settlers near Chester, Pennsylvania, 1682, together with some account of the English ancestry of the family, including the researches by Henry Fishwick, P.H.S., and the late Joseph Lemuel Chester;and a full report of the bi-centennial reunion of 1882; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofsharp00cope/page/176
• Haines, Blanche Moore (1937) Ancestry of Sharpless Moore and Rachel (Roberts) Moore, with their direct ancestors to and including thirty-six first or immigrant ancestors with some old world pedigrees and origins and direct descendants; https://archive.org/details/ancestryofsharpl00hain/page/13; (Have to borrow book)
• Harlan, Alpheus H. (Alpheus Hibben) (1914) History and genealogy of the Harlan family, and particularly of the descendants of George and Michael Harlan, who settled in Chester County, Pa., 1687; https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00harl/page/n7
• Cope, Gilbert,; Ashmead, Henry Graham (1904) Historic homes and institutions, and genealogical and personal memoirs of Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania; Lewis Publishing Company; https://archive.org/details/historichomesins00cope/page/322
• Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 14; By Great Britain House of Commons; Pile’s Estate-Sir Seymour Pile, Baronet; https://books.google.com/books?id=2xNDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA460&lpg=PA460&dq=Francis+Pile,+baronet.,+late+of+Axford.&source=bl&ots=3HyxlCQbKy&sig=8iEQHZPNoNo-FQZa8gzN5H-wjWc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdzrvSvKzeAhWT-lQKHeKNCNUQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Francis%20Pile%2C%20baronet.%2C%20late%20of%20Axford.&f=false
• Wiltshire Record Society (formerly the records branch of the Wiltshire archaeological and natural history society) VOLUME XXXVI FOR THE YEAR 1980; Wiltshire Coroners Bills 1752-1796; EDITED BY R. F. HUNNISETT (see pg 194 for index for pile/pyle/piles; http://www.wiltshirerecordsociety.org.uk/pdfs/wrs_v36.pdf
• The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Being a Classified Collection ..., Volume 17; edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, A. C. Bickley, Alice Bertha Gomme; https://books.google.com/books?id=V-QxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=Francis+Pile,+baronet.,+late+of+Axford.&source=bl&ots=a1_6jN983y&sig=-aKc0lMz6kCM8f8m2KS5CNsr6JI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdzrvSvKzeAhWT-lQKHeKNCNUQ6AEwBXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=Francis%20Pile%2C%20baronet.%2C%20late%20of%20Axford.&f=false
• Wiltshire notes and queries; Publication date 1893 (Vol year-1913); Publisher [Devizes : s.n.]; https://archive.org/details/wiltshirenotesqu1913devi/page/847
• The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 35; pg 491; More on francis Pile baronet, coat of arms and visitation done in wilts 1623; https://books.google.com/books?id=0Qk5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA491&lpg=PA491&dq=Francis+Pile,+baronet.,+late+of+Axford.&source=bl&ots=U6M7nKOxvF&sig=9hWiijcpJ9K1xSgWPilejJrzk6M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdzrvSvKzeAhWT-lQKHeKNCNUQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Francis%20Pile%2C%20baronet.%2C%20late%20of%20Axford.&f=false
• A P Baggs, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Axford', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 12, Ramsbury and Selkley Hundreds; the Borough of Marlborough, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1983), pp. 47-52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp47-52 [accessed 16 November 2018].
• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp47-52#anchorn106; (Sir Gabriel Pile, knighted in 1607; died in 1626; of Axford Manor; has a son Francis, who was created a baronet in 1628; d in 1635 who had 2 sons Sir Francis; d. 1649 and Sir Seymour will proved 1681 (who had a son sir francis who had a son sir Seymour)

Notable Pyles

• Notable Pyle's

Patriots-Served in the Military

Col John Pyle

Research help

• Civil War-97th Regiment (Francis H and Walter Pyle-mustered in Jan 1 1864 together; and mustered out Aug 28 1865 together with Walter sustaining 2 separate injuries); Source: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, by Henry Graham Ashmead, L. H. Everts & Co., 1884, pp. 126-132.http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/military/civilwar/service/97regt.txt

Note: History behind the 97th Regiment-need to paraphrase history into profiles once located

Sources

1. ↑ Dict. of American family names retrieved from https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=pyle
2. ↑ History of Names cited in Lewis Palmer's genealogical record of the descendants of John and Mary Palmer; retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00byupalm/page/18
3. ↑ Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy
4. ↑ Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock
5. ↑ Drayton, Poly-Olbion, xxix. 285. Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison
6. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith
7. ↑ Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower
8. ↑ Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower