Thornton Family History
Thornton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the
numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old
English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’.Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic
Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see
Skehan).Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see
Drennan).Irish: possibly a translated form of Gaelic
Ó Muineacháin (see Monahan).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thornton
Name Distribution of Thornton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thornton families
 2,682 - 5,361  895 - 2,681 |
 1 - 894  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thornton families
|
106 - 209 36 - 105 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thornton census records
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Thornton Family Origin
Thornton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Thornton Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Thornton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Thornton census records
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Military Service by Thornton
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