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I presumed it was church personnel attempting to help alleviate a surname problem by shortening and standardizing the name. It was then used in the church records for a period of time. But thereafter the names, commonly used today, still came about from the families' own interpretation or preference whatever their reason. TRITAPOE possibly for phonation & simplicity; TRITTIPO a vowel interpretation; TRITTIPOE, for vowel and enunciation? On April 1803 Conrad sold his property of 41 acres & 31 poles in Loudoun Co for $400 and relocated to Berkeley Springs, WV where he spent the remainder of his life... This is my personal observation in the early going of this family. J.H. Trittipo, Ft. Wyne, IN