Thorpe Family Crest
The English surname Thorpe is an habitational name from any of the numerous places in England named with the Old Norse term thorp meaning “hamlet, or village.” The first written reference to the name is in 1158 when William de Torp is registered in the "Pipe Rolls of Northumberland." One William Thorp was an early emigrant to the American Colonies, leaving London on the "Expectation" in April 1635, bound for "the Island of Providence"; he was accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and their two year old daughter.
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