John LATHROP

• Name	John LATHROP
  Gender	Male
  Name	John LOWTHROPPE
  Notes	(1) Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 88-92: LATHROP The surname Lathrop or Lothrop is derived from the parish Lowthorpe. Thorpe means village, so the meaning of the word literally is a low village. Lowthorpe is a small parish in the wapentake of Dickering, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, having only about a hundred and fifty inhabitants. Walter de Lowthorpe was elected high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1216 and the name has been common in Yorkshire from that time. Robert and Richard Lowthorp lived at Whepsted, Thingoe Hundred, Suffolk, in 1287. A prominent family of Lathropps lived in Staffordshire before 1560. Arms: Sable, an eagle displayed argent. Crest: A Cornish chough proper. . . . John Lathrop or Lowthroppe, as the name was then spelled, is the first of this ancient family in England to whom the American line can be definitely traced. Early in the sixteenth century he was living in Cherry Burton, a parish about four miles from Lowthorpe. He was, though belonging to a junior branch of the family, a gentleman of quite extensive landed estates both in Cherry Burton and in various other parts of the county. In 1545 his name appears on a subsidy roll, assessed twice as much as any other inhabitant of the parish. Of his parentage and brothers and sisters nothing has been discovered, the early parish records having disappeared. He left a son Robert, mentioned below, and three daughters whose names are unknown, though their families are mentioned in their brother's will.
  Person ID	I21735	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Children	1. Robert LATHROP
  Family ID	F327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024