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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,305,195 Historical Documents with Thornton on Ancestry
- 1,062,626 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 673,103 Census and Voter Lists
- 107,708 Military Records
- 88,303 Immigration Records
- 1,373,455 Member Trees
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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
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106 - 209 36 - 105 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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- England (611)
- Ireland (449)
- Great Britain (107)
- Scotland (56)
- Britain (10)
- Scotland,Great Britain (7)
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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