Thorpe Family History
Thorpe Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thorpe
Name Distribution of Thorpe Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thorpe families
 142 - 282  48 - 141 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Thorpe families
|
1,622 - 3,242 541 - 1,621 |
1 - 540 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thorpe families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thorpe census records
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Thorpe Family Origin
Thorpe Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Thorpe
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Thorpe Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Thorpe census records
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Thorpe Civil War Service Records
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