Thorpe - ᚦᚩᚱᛈ - Danelaw surname

11/06/2023

Same info, different maker.

05/06/2021

Modern replica of the largest Norse ship ever found.  Must’ve been for transporting horses, it is huge. 

12/05/2021

Icelandic female pronouncing  ᚦorp.

11/05/2021

Information from: https://forebears.io

11/05/2021

Viking settlements in Britain
Places names ending in -toft, -thorp(e), and - by.

11/05/2021

Scandinavian surname concentration in England.

11/05/2021

Great read about our name- very long.

“Select Thorpe Meaning-
Thorp or Thorpe as a name in England is generally to be found in areas where there was Danish settlement. Places with “-thorp” or “-thorpe” as a suffix crop up in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk. The word – of Old Norse and Old Danish origin – means a small hamlet or village.Its first recording as a surname was William de Torp in the Northumberland pipe rolls of 1158.
Thorp and Thorpe are the main spellings, with Thorp more to be found in the north of England. Thorp could become Tharp in America.”

History and genealogy of the Thorp and Thorpe surname. Thorp could become Tharp in America. Includes a miscellany of Thorpe stories.

11/05/2021

This is an ancient name of Anglo-Saxon and Old Scandinavian origin, and is a locational surname from any of the places in England named with Old Norse or Old Danish element "thorp", or the rarer Olde English pre 7th Century "throp". Generally, "thorp(e)" in a placename indicates that it was an area of Danish settlement. The word means a small hamlet or village that grew by colonisation from a larger settlement, and was originally an outlying farm dependent on a nearby village. In the modern idiom there are a number of variant forms of the surname, ranging from Thorpe, Thorp, Tharp and Turp, to Thro(u)p, Thrupp and Thripp. Thomas Thorpe (died 1461) was speaker of the House of Commons from 1431 - 1452. Francis Thorpe (1595 - 1665), who was educated at Cambridge was a witness at Stafford's trial and became a colonel in the parliamentary army, and was later appointed judge for the northern circuit and delivered a "charge" at York justifying Charles 1's ex*****on and also refused to try the northern insurgents. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Torp, which was dated 1158, in the "Pipe Rolls of Northumberland", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Last name meaning Thorpe: This is an ancient name of Anglo-Saxon and Old Scandinavian origin, and is a locational surname from any of the places in England named with Old Norse or Old Danish element "thorp", or the rarer Olde English pre 7th Century "throp"...

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Famous Thorpe’s-

George Thorpe, was a noted landowner, Member of Parliament, distiller, educator and major investor in early colonial companies in the Americas. George Thorpe was born at Wanswell Court, the family estate in Gloucestershire, England.

- Help found The Virginia trading company.
- Help found Jamestown
- Creator of Bourbon Whiskey

George Thorpe (baptized January 1, 1576 - died March 22, 1622 at Berkeley Hundred), was a noted landowner, Member of Parliament, distiller, educator and major investor in early colonial companies in the Americas. George Thorpe was born at Wanswell Court, the family estate in Gloucestershire, England...

11/05/2021

Famous Thorpe’s-

Sir Robert Thorpe KS JP (died 29 June 1372) was a British justice. He was the son of another Sir Robert Thorpe, and is occasionally confused with another Robert Thorpe who was second master of Pembroke College, Cambridge at around the same time. The Thorpe family produced many prominent lawyers, including William de Thorpe, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who may have been influential in guiding Robert towards a judicial career.

- Lord Chancellor

Sir Robert Thorpe KS JP (died 29 June 1372) was a British justice. He was the son of another Sir Robert Thorpe, and is occasionally confused with another Robert Thorpe who was second master of Pembroke College, Cambridge at around the same time. The Thorpe family produced many prominent lawyers, inc...

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Famous Thorpe’s-

John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect.

- First to design using hallways. Rooms up until that point adjoined one another.

Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum,[1] to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain.

11/05/2021

Thorpe - Haplogroup project.

Admin note- I am not associated with this in anyway. My Haplogroup is R1b-u106.