Ribshare surname or similiar variation dating around 1550?

Question:

Ribshare surname or similiar variation dating around 1550?

Does anyone have information on the origin of this surname, a connection or something similiar?
The date I have is around 1550 in England but obviously could have originated elsewhere?
Thank you.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Couldn't get past this lady for ages
William Walpole married Martha RIBSHARE on 15 Jun 1609 in Harston Cambridgeshire England. Martha was born in 1588 in Harston Cambridgeshire England, died in Harston Cambridgeshire England, and was buried on 17 Feb 1624 in Harston Cambridgeshire England.

and then I found this!

The 1296 ??rents of assise?? together with Geoffrey Ribshare??s
rent total ⣸ 6s 4d for the Manor of Steeple in Dorset

and in appendix 7

Geoffrey Ribshare paid 18s 4d rent at Steeple in Dorset in 1296

easiest to just do a search for the name when the document has loaded and you should find both entries, one in the body & one in appendix 7.

http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/research/pur...

The document is: A ??MARGINAL ECONOMY??? THE ISLE OF PURBECK FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE BLACK DEATH (not my caps!)

Not sure where you go from here, but gives you another avenue of possibility and a possible point of origin.

Good luck.

Had to add this:

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the name Steeple refers to the steepness of the hillside around it. In 1540, Edmund Lawrence moved to Steeple. His wife Agnes de Wessington, was heiress to the Washington family. A descendant of the family named John moved to Virginia and his great grandson George would become the first President. The Stars and Stripes (or more correctly, bars and mullets) of the American flag are derived from the quartering of the arms of the Lawrences of Steeple and the Washingtons. This family coat of arms can be found on the east wall of St Michael and all Angels and also in the porch