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From: Nathaniel Lane Taylor <>
Subject: Re: Thorpe
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 04:15:35 GMT

Mr. Thorpe wrote,

> I ... know that the Thorpe name is
> an old english name tracing back to a Norman knight DuThorp who came with
> William the Conqueror.

Thorpe is a peasant name, from one of the Danish place-name words for some
sort of habitation which was in use in the North and East of England since
the tenth century. I share a common name, and, like you, at one point
learned that, despite what it sounds like, the Taylors were all descended
from the Norman knight "Taillefer", who came with William the Conqueror.

Nineteenth-century fiction to the core.

Nat Taylor

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