Brief Life History of James
When James Thorpe was born about 1783, in New Mills, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Thorpe, was 31 and his mother, Mary Stafford, was 21. He married Jane Bradley on 12 September 1814, in Glossop, Derbyshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Thornsett, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died about 1860, in New Mills, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79, and was buried in New Mills, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- James Thorpe, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- James Thorpe, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- James Thorpe, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
about 1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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