Thorne Family History
- Thorne Name Meaning
- English (mainly southern): variant spelling of Thorn 1. Swedish: ornamental name from thorn, an ornamental spelling of torn ‘thorn bush’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,071,874 Historical Documents with Thorne on Ancestry
- 359,276 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 217,579 Census and Voter Lists
- 29,052 Military Records
- 41,822 Immigration Records
- 424,145 Member Trees
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Number of Thorne families
 567 - 1,132  190 - 566 |
 1 - 189  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thorne families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thorne census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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