Scroope History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Scroope family

The surname Scroope was first found in Yorkshire where "few families were more important in the 14th and 15th centuries than the noble house of Scrope; their descent is unbroken from the Conquest. Few houses also have been more distinguished by the number of great offices of honour held both in Church and State." 1 The first record in Yorkshire was found in "Bolton, being from the period of Edward I., their principal seat and Barony." 1

The surname's origin can be traced to "one of King Edward the Confessor's foreign attendants named Richard, to whom the Anglo-Saxons gave the derisory name of Sceope, or 'the Scrub' either on account of some inferior office or perhaps as a merely satirical appellation, and who was one of the few Normans permitted to remain at court after the rest had been driven away." 2

Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire "was anciently the residence of the baronial family of Scroop, of whom Henry, Lord le Scroop, lord treasurer, and Archbishop Scroop, were both beheaded for high treason in the reign of Henry IV." 3

Early History of the Scroope family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Scroope research. Another 139 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1327, 1346, 1350, 1364, 1371, 1378, 1380, 1403, 1405, 1601, 1649, 1660 and 1680 are included under the topic Early Scroope History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Scroope Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Scrope, Scroope, Scroop, Scope and others.

Early Notables of the Scroope family

Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton (c. 1327-1403), English soldier and courtier, serving Richard II of England, fought under the Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy (1346), a knight of the shire for Yorkshire in the parliament of 1364, summoned to the upper house as a Baron by writ (1371), became Lord High Treasurer and Keeper of the Great Seal, became Lord Chancellor (1378), resinged in 1380 when governemtn collapsed, after his successor was beheaded, took up the position again after the peasants revolt; Earls...
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Scroope migration to the United States +

Scroope Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Mary Scroope, who arrived in Virginia in 1664 4

Sources +

Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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)