| ![Show Contents]() Toop History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The origins of the name Toop are from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It is derived from the Old Danish personal name Topi. Many Scandinavian personal names were left in the British Isles as a legacy of the Viking raids which plagued the coastal regions of Britain from the 8th to 10th centuries, and many of these eventually became Anglo-Saxon surnames. Early Origins of the Toop familyThe surname Toop was first found in Somerset, where the first records of the name are Robert Top and William Toppe, bother recorded there 1 Edward III (during the first year of the reign of King Edward III.) 1 "The Dorset family of Topp probably belong to the ancient Wiltshire family of Topp, now extinct, that held the manor of Stockton in Wilts from before the Reformation until the close of last century, when it passed by marriage into the possession of Robert Balch, Esq., of St. Audries, Somerset." 2 "The manor of Killenick [at Land's End, Cornwall] belonged, in the reign of Richard II. to John Longeland and Lankford. This manor has been dismembered ; and it was sold in the year 1720, under a decree of chancery, in its divided state. Bosvargus, which was formerly a seat belonging to a family of that name, was at one time inherited by the learned Jonathan Toup, rector of St. Martin's, near Looe." 3 Some of the family were found in Scotland as "Edward Top admitted [was] burgess of Aberdeen, 1486 is doubtless the Edward Top who was fined in 1497 for 'failzeit in the waching of the tone.'" 4 Early History of the Toop familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Toop research. Another 60 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1202, 1580 and 1639 are included under the topic Early Toop History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Toop Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Toop family name include Toop, Toope, Tooppe, Toopes, Toup, Toupe, Tupe, Toowp and many more. Early Notables of the Toop familyDistinguished members of the family include - David Toope, property owner, Wiltshire
 Toop migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Toop surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Toop Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- John Toop, who arrived in Maryland in 1823 5
- Mrs. Geo. Toop, aged 50, who settled in America from London, in 1892
- William B. Toop, aged 21, who landed in America, in 1894
Toop Settlers in United States in the 20th Century- Sampson Toop, aged 64, who immigrated to the United States from Harrabridge, England, in 1908
- Beatrice Toop, aged 23, who immigrated to America from Weston Super Mare, England, in 1909
- Frank Toop, aged 25, who immigrated to the United States from Bournsmouth, England, in 1909
- James Francis Toop, aged 19, who settled in America from Furzebrook, England, in 1913
- William Charles Toop, aged 21, who immigrated to America from Furzebrook, England, in 1913
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Toop Settlers in Canada in the 20th Century- Frederick Toop, aged 45, who immigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1920
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Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include: Toop Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century- Abernezer Toop, aged 23, a farm servant, who arrived in South Australia in 1852 aboard the ship "Sea Park" 6
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The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 7Toop Settlers in West Indies in the 18th Century- Johanna Toop, who, at the age of 21, who sailed to Jamaica in 1731
- Joanna Toop, who settled in Jamaica in 1731
| Contemporary Notables of the name Toop (post 1700) | + |
- David Toop (b. 1949), English musician and author
| Historic Events for the Toop family | + |
HMS Royal Oak - Kenneth H. Toop (1923-2015), born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, British Boy 1st Class with the Royal Navy aboard the HMS Royal Oak (1939) when she was torpedoed by U-47 and sunk; he survived the sinking 8
- Dickinson, F.H., Kirby's Quest for Somerset of 16th of Edward the 3rd London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St, Martin's Lane, 1889. Print.
- Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
- Hutchins, Fortescue, The History of Cornwall, from the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Present Time. London: William Penaluna, 1824. Print
- Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- South Australian Register Tuesday 3 February 1852. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) SEA PARK 1852. Retrieved http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/seapark1852.shtml
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
- Ships hit by U-boats crew list HMS Royal Oak (08) - (Retrieved 2018 February, 9th) - retrieved from https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship68.html
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