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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.

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thorpe Family Facts

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.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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