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thorpe Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in England named with Old Norse þorp ‘hamlet’, ‘village’ or the Old English cognate þrop.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The thorpe name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the thorpe family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of thorpe Families in the US in 1920
Number of thorpe families
 142-282
 48-141		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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