When Jemimah Thorpe was born on 17 January 1724, in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Thorpe, was 41 and her mother, Margaret, was 38.
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English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English thorp(e) ‘village, hamlet, farmstead’ (Old Norse, Old English thorp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in such a settlement, or habitational, for someone from any of several places called Thorp(e), which are most frequent in Yorkshire, the Midlands, and East Anglia. Compare Throop .
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