Where does the surname Purkeypile originate?

familysearch.org has just 1,438 records for it. (They have over 150,000 for "Pack" and over 28 MILLION for "Smith". Only one collection mentions anywhere other than the USA,

United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012

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Germans from Russia were an odd bunch. Catherine the Great invited some Germans to Russia to teach the serfs modern methods of farming and blacksmithing, and offered them free land plus exemptions from the draft. Then a later Czar went back on C the G's word. Some stayed, some moved to Manitoba and North Dakota, because they liked living on flat, snow-swept plains, some went to California.

Anyway, I suspect it is a corruption of something else in German or Russian. You'd have to do the research to see which. They didn't intermarry much, but some did. If I were betting, I'd bet it was German, but I would not give odds; it would be an even money bet.

Here's the link, if you're curious.

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?cou...

Please don't forget to choose a best answer. 10 points aren't much, but they assure us regulars that our time wasn't flushed down the toilet.

According to Black ( Surnames of Scotland ) " The very common name Ahannay , now Hannay , may be for ap Sheanaigh ( son of Senach ) rather than for ua Seanaigh . Gilbert de Hannethe of the County of Wigownshire ( SW Scotland ) rendered homage in 1296 in the same year as Gilbert Hahanith was juror in an inquest concerning the succession to Elena la Zuche in Scotland . John Hanna was maser of a ship of James , King of Scotland in 1424 . James Hannay was the Dean who attempted to read the Episcopal liturgy before Jenny Geddes in St Giles Cathedral and rreceived a stool on his nut for his efforts . There is of course Richard Hannay hero of John Buchan's tale of yesteryear recently slaughtered on Christmas TV - The Thirty Nine Steps .

I have found some Purkeyplie saying in census records that they are Irish decent. But I am glad that there are some thought to be German as well