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I cleaned this up somewhat yesterday, but did not take the time to find the better way of sourcing encyclopediavirginia.org articles. Since libraries are closed today and cyberbully scammer season has begun in earnest (as shown by the Australian data broker/scammer email as well as a no-message voicemail from a Wisconsin scammer when I managed to begin editing yesterday, plus the usual contingent of readily caught fake costco, venmo, facebook, etc scammers immediately sent to junkmail, and today's queer repeat laptop nags about a nonexistent usb device being unrecognized) I don't know when I'll get back to this article. Thus, I write to suggest that a genealogist or someone with full access to familysearch.org check that both his step-brothers and sons were both named William and John per the cited encyclopediavirginia article. At least one of the now-cited cited McCartney books mentions a couple of early Virginia immigrants named Thomas Thorpe but not their relation to this influential man. That William Thorpe was this man's heir and was forced to litigate his legacy does not mean that he was this man's eldest surviving son, rather than a younger half-brother. I just posted an article about Otto (or Otho) Thorpe who died childless a few decades later, who was identified more than a century ago as a kinsman of this George Thorpe without the specific consanguity explained. Over the last couple of days I have noticed that this family is barely mentioned in the Virginia-centric Adventures of Purse and Person (4th ed), presumably because they returned to or mostly stayed in England.Jweaver28 (talk) 22:57, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
