Welcome to the Sloper Family Home Page

Above is one of several Sloper family crests. The family motto is "In Pace et Sapiens", which roughly translates to "Peace through Knowledge".

What is a Sloper? The name Sloper belongs to individuals located throughout the world, but primarily in England and the United States. This WEB site is located in the United States, where most Slopers are descendants of Richard Sloper, who was born in 1630 in Gloucester, England. Richard Sloper came to the United States as a Lieutenant in the English Army, stationed in what is presently Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he fought in the Indian Wars. Sloper and his wife, Mary Sherbourne, had 12 children. One of those children, Mary Sloper, was scalped by Indians as a young married woman. She survived and a silver plate covered the fracture made in her cranium by a tomahawk. She subsequently used a wig and lived past the age of 81. Tough people these Slopers! Their descendants also served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War (on both sides) and all other American wars and conflicts.

For information about Sloper's at war see Sloper Miscellany. For more family information see Genealogy.

Records of Slopers exist from 1400 in England, where the majority of Slopers continue to reside.

The Sloper family includes several authors, see Literary Slopers

Other WEB Sites of particular interest include the:

          Slopers on Facebook  

Slopers of England
Sloper Miscellany  - For miscellaneous comments and other Sloper information, including additional Sloper WEB sites, a novel and two movies about Slopers, see Sloper Miscellany. Some of the WEB sites are fascinating, such as the Sloper who survived the sinking of the Titanic, others are a little more off beat.

Newsletter - A Sloper newsletter is published periodically by Loma Sloper Taylor, who lives in Renton, Washington. For a subscription to "The Sloper SnOOper", mail $10 for a year's subscription to Theodore C. Taylor, 1104 Shelton Ave. NE, Renton, Washington 98056-3543.

Last updated: September 12, 2011

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