Lathrope
The LATHROPEs were an old Devon family, centered about the village of Ottery St. Mary, located between Exeter and Lyme Bay.
William LATHROPE (My 5-Times-Great-Grandfather), was born abt 1745 in Ottery St. Mary, Devon. He married, on 6 Nov 1770 at Ottery St.Mary, Elizabeth HEARNE. She was Chr 10 Jan 1752, and buried 22 Apr 1824, at Ottery St.Mary. William was buried 16 Nov 1828 also at Ottery St. Mary. Their children were:
1... William LATHROPE. Chr 29 Feb 1772 at Ottery St. Mary, Devon. Buried 24 Nov 1773 aged 1 year 9 months.
2... William LATHROPE (My 4-Times-Great-Grandfather). Born 27 Oct 1774, (Chr 16 Nov 1774), he married, on 8 Jul 1799 in the parish church at Twerton, Somerset, Elizabeth BENDY (born in Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire (Chr 12 Nov 1775 )). A woolcomber by trade, William left Devon with Elizabeth in 1806 and moved to Rotherhithe in Surrey (which is now absorbed into Greater London) where they remained for 3 years before returning to Ottery St Mary. They then moved around locally, working on various sheep farms in Devon and Somerset, notably Wellington in Somerset, before moving north to Bradford, Yorkshire in the mid 1820s. There was much movement in those days from the West Country (Devon, Cornwall and Somerset) to Yorkshire, as both regions were rugged moorlands, ideal for sheep but not cattle, but Yorkshire was located in the centre of the Industrial Revolution whereas the West Country was still rural. Consequently there was much work in Yorkshire's textile factories and mills. Bradford was, and has remained, the wool capital of England, to whose textile factories the great bulk of fleeces from Yorkshire's millions of sheep were sent for processing. Upon retirement, about 1843, William and Elizabeth then moved with their daughter Jane LATHROPE, who had come north with them and their other children in the mid 1820s and had married Bradford-born Mormon Allen LANE, to Leicester, where they lived variously at 27 Bridge Street in the west of the city, ( where they were in 1851), at 41 Oxford Street, next door to Jane and Allen LANE at number 43, and later at 33 Thornton Lane in the St. Martin's area of Leicester (again in the western part of the city), where William died on 18 Oct 1862. He was buried 3 days later on 21 Oct at Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester. Elizabeth did not return to Devon but remained at 41 Oxford Street near her daughter Jane (it is probable, but so far not confirmed, that William and Elizabeth owned both numbers 41 and 43). Elizabeth died 6 Oct 1866 in Leicester and was buried 3 days later on the 9th in the same grave (grave #1597 at Welford Road) as William. Both burial services were conducted by the Reverend John Angrave of that parish. Two years later, upon the death of Allen LANE, Jane and her brother Robert LATHROPE, who from Bradford had eventually made his way to Deepcar, Yorkshire, and both of whose lives were in some turmoil, emigrated to America, together with Robert's youngest daughter Elizabeth, to join Jane's son Henry and his family who had already gone there 4 years previously. The 1851 Census. His Death Certificate. Their children.
3... Mary LATHROPE. Chr 2 Apr 1777, Ottery St Mary, Devon. She married, on 28 Sep 1794 at Ottery St Mary, Henry CLOWN.
4... Robert LATHROPE. Born 4 Apr 1780, (Chr. 1 Dec 1780) at Ottery St. Mary, he was buried 23 Dec 1780 at Ottery St Mary aged 8 months. His Church Baptism Record.
5... Robert LATHROPE. Chr 25 Jan 1782 at Ottery St. Mary, he married, on 21 Nov 1828, Susanna BROWN. His Church Baptism Record.
6... John LATHROPE. Chr. 18 Aug 1784, Ottery St. Mary.
7... Elizabeth LATHROPE. Chr. 28 May 1787 at Ottery St. Mary, she married, on 29 Dec 1816 at Ottery St Mary, James GLENDINING.