Sampson
Toop
Born in Whitchurch, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Toop
and Jane Creber (Atwill) Toop
Brother of
Selina Jane (Toop) Blanchard, Richard Atwill Toop, Mary Sophia Toop, Sarah Anne Toop, John Stuttaford Toop, Archelaus Toop, Hector Toop, Henry William Toop and Cicely (Toop) Hill
Husband of
Emma (Bidgood) Toop
— married
about Dec 1868 (to 15 Oct 1918) in Horrabridge, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Father of
Ida Toop, Richard Toop, Emma May (Toop) Campbell, Robert Sampson Toop, Henry Harkness Toop, Joseph William Toop, Frederick Wesley Toop and Lilly Jane Toop
Died
at age 83
in Atchelitz, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Feb 2012
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Biography
Sampson TOOP was baptised on 7th April 1844 at St Andrew's, Whitchurch, Devonshire. He married Emma BIDGOOD in the fourth quarter of 1868 in Tavistock Registration District, Devonshire.
Sampson emigrated to Canada in 1874 and by 1876 had made his way to Chilliwack in the Fraser valley. In 1901 he was a farmer and in 1918 was described as a 'farmer raising poultry'.
Sampson passed away on 4th August 1927, aged 83 years. He was buried on the 18th August 1927 in Carmen Cemetery, Sardis, British Columbia.
Sources
- St Andrew's Baptismal Register
- 1901 Canadian Census
- British Columbia Death Registrations
- "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDZJ-Q44 : accessed 19 June 2012), Sampson Toop in entry for Frederick Wesley Toop and Pearl Edith Simpson, 1913.
- Find A Grave
- Wright's 1918 British Columbia Directory.
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