Thornhill Family History
Thornhill Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thornhill
Name Distribution of Thornhill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thornhill families
 171 - 339  58 - 170 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thornhill families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thornhill census records
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Thornhill Family Origin
Thornhill Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Thornhill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Thornhill
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