James Bell TOOP

1835 - 1869  (34 years)

• Name	James Bell TOOP  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1835	Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  1851 Census	1851	Greenwich, Woolwich, Kent, England   [3]
  	Private, Royal Sappers and Miners, Surveyor
  1861 Census	1861	Rye, Sussex, England   [2]
  	Corporal, Royal Engineers
  1861 Survey Company	1861  [4]
  	2587, Second Corporal, 19th Company, Royal Engineers
  Death	9 Nov 1869	Southampton, Hampshire, England
  Burial	9 Nov 1869	Old Cemetery, Southampton, Hampshire, England   [6, 7]
  	Grave AAa28
  Person ID	I8930	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

  Father	William Sampson TOOP,   b. 1802, Tavistock, Devon, England
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F5043	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ellen Louisa KENNEDY
  Marriage	15 Feb 1865	City of London, England   [5]
  Family ID	F7436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S160] Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/BAT3/A/01/MS 6779/8. Record for William Sampson Toop https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1623&h=1050654957&indiv=try [S26] Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: RG 9; Piece: 557; Folio: 94; Page: 22; GSU roll: 542661. Record for James Bell Toop https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8767&h=7490108&indiv=try [S25] Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: HO107; Piece: 1589; Folio: 435; Page: 7; GSU roll: 174826. Record for James Bell Toop https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8860&h=1127695&indiv=try [S306] Survey Company. FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments. [S160] Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), London Metropolitan Archives; London, England, UK; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/BAT3/A/01/MS 6779/8. Record for James Bell Topp https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1623&h=654957&indiv=try [S361] FoSOC. [S362] HGS MI.