Brief Life History of Thomas Larsen
When Thomas Larsen Thorpe was born on 16 December 1860, in Vejle, Denmark, his father, Christian Larsen Thorpe, was 26 and his mother, Anna Marie Madsdatter, was 28. He married Anna Larsen Lund on 24 November 1886, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 6 November 1944, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas L Thorpe, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Thomas L Thorpe, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Thomas Larsen Thorpe, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1879
1879-1924 LDS Church Operated
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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