The Tippin/Tipping family is perhaps the oldest lineage in the family. The founder of the line may have come into England with Canute the Great (1014-1035). Reportedly, the Domesday Book lists a Torjin family living in England as if 1042. Torjin is a variant of Thorjin and of Norwegian-Norman origins; Thorpin, another variant, is of Norman-Dane. The Norman connection must have served the family well after William the Conqueror invaded in 1066.
The English family of Tipping (originally, Typpynge) had its origin of the surname from a village or hamlet in the township of Clayton-le-Dale, situated about five miles northeast from the city of Blackburn, Lancaster County, England. The mansion house called Tippin Hall, was the family seat in the time of Edward III (1328-1377) and probably much earlier.

William Tipping Jr. [4928] was born at Wheatfield, Merton, Oxford County, England in 1592. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, as a commoner, matriculated 23 June 1615, and graduated B.A. on 23 Oct. 1617. He became a student at Lincoln's Inn in 1618, but afterwards abandoned the law, returned to Oxford, lived a studious life, and was added to the commission of the peace. William was summoned before the court of high commission for puritan practices in 1635 and 1636, and in the civil war joined the parliament, took the covenant, and was inducted into the family living of Shabington, Buckinghamshire. In 1640 at the age of 48 William was the Vicar of Shabington, County Bucks, England. He appears as one of the parliamentary visitors of Oxford in 1647 and on 12 April 1648 was created M.A. He died in the neighboring parish of Waterstock on 2 Feb. 1648-9, and was there buried on the 8th.