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The Tupper Family originated about 800 A.D. around Wessex, England. Then a male sheep was called a tupp; thus a tupper or tuppman was a sheep breeder. - The Tupper Family of Annerica published in 1945 a study of this family, "Descendants of Thomas Tupper", by Franklin Whittlesey Tupper.