English: habitational name from any of various places named
Thornhill, for example in Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Dorset, and
Wiltshire, from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + hyll
‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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