The ancient roots of the Hartop family name are in the
Anglo-Saxon culture. The name Hartop comes from when the family lived in Hartop, a place which is no longer known. The place-name is derived from the Old English word
har, which meant hoar or gray, and also meant boundary, and the Old Scandinavian word
topt, which meant cottage or homestead. The name as a whole means "gray cottage," or "cottage in the gray lands," or perhaps "homestead on the border."
Early Origins of the Hartop family
The surname Hartop was first found in
Leicestershire where they held a
family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the
Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Early History of the Hartop family
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Hartop Spelling Variations
One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The
spelling variations under which the name Hartop has appeared include Hartopp, Hartop and others.
Early Notables of the Hartop family (pre 1700)
Notables of the family at this time include Sir William Hartopp of Rotherby; and Job Hartop, an English adventurer, chief gunner on John Hawkins' third voyage to the Caribbean but...
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Migration of the Hartop family to the New World and Oceana
At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in
England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left
England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Hartop arrived in North America very early:
Hartop Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- Edward Hartop, who arrived in Virginia in 1637 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Hartop Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
- Percy Hartop, aged 22, who emigrated to the United States from Mellon, England, in 1907
- Georgina Hartop, aged 32, who landed in America from Bradford, England, in 1910
- Godfrey Hartop, aged 5, who emigrated to America from Bradford, England, in 1910
- Muriel Hartop, aged 3, who landed in America from Bradford, England, in 1910
- Archibald Maurice Hartop, aged 32, who settled in America from Croydon, England, in 1913
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