WQrnnp mre e iy llaltrr 3Ray IDqrnnp Att~ irryl Estelle murrJ~ Wllrnop UI~roop Jresn ln fllli r aau. <f n l if. 1971 Copyright Walter F. Throop and Beryl E. Throop 1971. La Mirada, California Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 77~147244 Printed ln the United States of America FOREWORD We feel that all Throop families in the United States and in Canada are related to each other and are all descended from the original William Throope and Mary Chapman. William Throope was the name taken by Adrian Scroope after he arrived in America from England (by way of Holland). Adrian Scroope fled to America after his father, Col. Adrian Scroope, was executed at Charing Cross in October of 1660 for his part as one of the commissioners of the High Court of Justice who tried and sentenced King Charles I of England. On page 681 of this volume we have included a section for as yet unplaced Throops. We feel they are a part of our family and that the facts of just how they are con­ nected to the main Throop tree trunk are buried somewhere in history just waiting for someone to find them. After this volume is published we will be continuing our research trying to place these families. A revised edition of this book will then be published in about· 10 years. Therefore, If in your research you find informatibn that will help us place these families or add others please get in touch with us. Our address ls 11708 Hollyview Drive In La Mirada, California 90638. My father is Fay Throop, Box 595, Project City, California 96079. TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Sc ropes. 1 ' . Beginnings Colonel Adrian Scroope , 4 ' . • Base Adrian Scroope-William Throope . .14 Coat of Arms .... 16 ' Picture .... The Authors and their Family . .21 Introduction to Charts. .23 Charts ..... .. ' .25 Unplaced Throop Families. .. 681 Throop Places 749 Contributors, Current Throops, and Throop Descendants , 751 B1bl lography. 761 Index of Throop Surname .. ' 765 Index of Non-Throop Surnames. .. 789 THE SCROPES There are bits of lnformatlon that might lead one to believe there were Scropes in England before the time of Edward the Confessor, who reigned from 1042 to 1066. Some authorities have studied various names and place names and found some inter­ esting clues. Some of the flndlngs include 11 Scroo, Scroop, Scrop, Scru, 11 as 11 1 1 1 well as Scroop s abode, Scropton, Scruton, Scroop· s town .' Flavell Edmunds is one of a number of authorities on the origin of surnames who thinks that the town of Scrooby derived its name from a man named Scrope, or some variation of that name. If this is so, there must have been Scrapes in England long before the time of Ed­ ward the Confessor, because an old Nottinghamshire Charter of the year 958 names 11 11 11 11 Skroppenhorp , The name of this town finally became Scrooby • This is espec­ ially interesting to those of the family who are Mayflower descendants, because the little Scrooby congregation was the nucleus of the Pilgrim band. Other authorities, such as Sir N. Harris Nicolas, seem to feel that "the little evidence which is extant on the subject justifies the opinion that the first per­ son who is recorded to have borne the name of Scrope, was a native of Normandy". There was an influx of Normans at the time of Edward the Confessor and Edward the Confessor did spend a good part of his life in exile in Normandy. When Edward came back to England after the death of Hardlcanute, to take his place on the Eng­ lish throne in 1042, many of h1s Norman friends came with him. Edward the Confes­ sor had a foreign favorite named "Richard Scrupe11 who held various manors in Eng­ land. Richard, son of Scrob (Scrape) received grants of land in Herefordshire and built a castle there. The castle has vanished, but the parish in which it stood is still known as "Richard's Castle." The Normans, and their habit of building castles, were very unpopular with the Saxons, and when Earl Godwin became strong enough to demand his rights, one of the conditions he imposed was that the Normans .be banished. For so~e reason, Richard, son of Scrob, was allowed to remain. His son, Osborn, however, together with other Norman exiles fled to Scotland and were favorably received by Macbeth. He was later allowed to return and held land and offices in Herefordshire. These early Scropes carried a badge showing a ducal coronet out of the middle of which rose the two large, uplifted pincer claws of a crab. There is a picture of this badge in the second volume of Slr N. Harris Nicolas' work on the Scrope-Gros­ 11 11 , venor trial. Some say that the name originally meant Crab • The branch of the Scrope family from which Adrian Scrape is descended was set­ tled in Yorkshire, England, at least as early as 1198, as one Robert Le Scrope held a knight's fee in Yorkshire at that time. They lived in the valley of the Ure River, called Wensleydale, and their burial place was St. Agatha's Abbey. The known direct ancestry of Adrian Scroope is as follows: l.Henry le Scrope 2.Wllliam le Scrope 3.Sir William le Scrope married Constance Gille 4.S1r Henry le Scrape married Margaret Roos 5.Slr Richard le Scrape married Blanche De Lo Pole 6.Sir Roger le Scrape married Margaret Tlptoft ?.Sir Richard le Scrape married Margaret De Nevill 8.Sir Henry le Scrape married Elizabeth Scrape -9.Sir John le Scrape married Joane FltzHugh, Elizabeth St. John, and Anna Harding 10.Slr Henry le Scrope marr1ed Elizabeth Percy 11.Sir John Scroope ' married Phillis Rokeby 12.Slr Adrian Scroope married Ursula Clifton 13.Sir Robert Scroope married Margaret Cornwall 14.Col. Adrian Scroope married Mary Waller IS.Adrian Scroop=William Throope In the year 1286, the Manor of West Bolton was held by Sir William le Scrope, Knight. He married Constance, daughter and heir of Thomas, son of Gillo, of Neu­ sam Upon Tees. His father was William le Scrape and his grandfather was Henry le Scrape. Both father and grandfather are buried at St. Agatha's Abbey in Wensley­ dale, Yorkshire. In 1294, Sir William le Scrape was Bailiff of Richmond. He was reputed to have been the best knight in the county at Jousts and tournaments. He was living in 1303, but dates of birth and death are not known. He had two sons who at various times held the position of Chief Justice of the King's Bench. One of them was Sir Henry le Scrope, father of the first Baron of Bolton; and the other was Sir Geoffrey le Scrape, father of the first Baron of Masham. Sir Henry le Scrape was Knight-Barrenet. Between the years 1308 and 1333, he served as Judge and Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He married Margaret, daughter of Lord Roos of Kendal. He died about 1336 and is buried at St, Agatha's Abbey. Sir Richard le Scrape, who became the First Baron of Bolton was born about 1328. He learned knighthood as a boy and "attached" himself to John of Gaunt and served him loyally for many years. · He married Blanche, daughter of William and Margaret (de Norwich) De Lo Pole. In 1359-60, King Edward I II, his four sons and the English army invaded France. Sir Richard le Scrape was a member of this expedition, as was also the poet Chaucer, who at that time was just a soldier. In a foray against the town of Rethel, near Rheims, Chaucer was taken prisoner but later was ransomed. The king contributed about $2,400 toward his ransom. When Richard II became king in 1377, Sir Richard le Scrope was appointed Ste­ ward of the Household and in 1378, he became Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal. In 1377, Sir Richard le Scrape lodged a complaint against Sir William de Bowes and others, saying that they had broken into his Yorkshire parks and had hunted there without his permission. They carried away his game and assaulted and imprisoned his servants. Sir Richard requested permission to fortify his manor house at Bolton. The Royal license was granted on July 4,1879. When he had finished, his manor had become transformed into a foriress known as Bolton Castle that is still standing on the hillside of the Ure Valley. Bolton Castle was eighteen years in the building and cost a great sum of mon­ ey. It was completed in 1399, some four years before Sir Richard's death in May of 1403. The specifications and quantities for the building of Bolton Castle are still extant in an agreement with John Lewyn, the builder. These are preserved at Bolton Hall, Yorkshire. Most books on Yorkshire contain a description of Bol­ ton Castle and many show pictures of it. One of its claims to distinction 1s that 1t was one of the prisons of Mary, Queen of Scots. While unable to assert the response, there are some present day addresses which might be of interest: Peacock and Calvert, Bolton Castle, Leyburn, York­ shire, England; Lord Bolton, Estate Office, Wensley, Leyburn, Yorks. ,England; Lord Richard Scroope, Danby House, Middleham, Leyburn,Yorkshire,England. In 1385, Sir Richard le Scrape challenged the right of Sir Robert Grosvenor to bear the shield that the Scropes claimed as exclusively their own. It was a shield with a field of Azure (blue) and a gold band running diagonally across n.