Alsoe

The Alsoe Family of Vermont and Michigan is closely related to the Royal Tribe of Skaghane and the Halso Family of County Duplin in North Carolina. This surname of ALSOE which is a variant of the name Allsopp, was a locational name 'of Alsop-en-le-dale' a chapelry in the parish of Ashbourne, County Derbyshire. During the middle ages it was customary for a man to take his name from the village where he lived. This name would identify his whole family, and followed them wherever they moved. Early records of the name mention ELLESHOPE (without surname) who appears as a tenant in the Domesday Book of 1066.