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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,459,238 Historical Documents with Thorpe on Ancestry
- 526,661 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 357,738 Census and Voter Lists
- 36,988 Military Records
- 31,529 Immigration Records
- 506,322 Member Trees
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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
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Thorpe census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Thorpe families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Thorpe families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Thorpe census records
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