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Lowthorp is a surname derived from the small parish of Lowthorpe in the wapentake of Dickering in the East Riding of Yorkshire England. Rev John Lothropp the first immigrant of this surname to the New World arrived in 1634 on the ship Griffin. He is considered the founder of Barnstable Massachusetts. Mark Lothrop of Bridgewater Massachusetts immigrated before 1643 and was probably Rev John’s cousin.