From Gallup Genealogy, Vol 1, 2009.

"John Gollop, the earliest known ancestor of John Gallop, the immigrant to America, was John Gollop, who came "out of the North" during the fifth year of the reign of Edward IV (1465). This ancestral John married Alice Temple at Temple Court in Broadwindsor, Dorsetshire, who was the daughter of William Temple of Temple Court who was born ca 1443 also in Dorsetshire. Through his marriage to Alice he acquired that estate with the lands of North Bowood."

"Their son John Gallop, gentlemen of North Bowood and Temple, Dorsetshire, died during the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Henry VIII (1534). He married Joan Collins of Snailscroft, Dorsetshire."

"Their son, Thomas Gallop, of North Bowood, gentleman, died April 7, 1610."