THORN / THORNE Family Members

Page last updated 1 January 2022.
Meaning of... (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname): 
 THORN: 
  • English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse þorn). The name is also found in Sweden.
  • English: habitational name from a place named with Old English, Old Norse þorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.
  • North German and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.
  • German: habitational name from the city of Thorn (Toruń in Poland), which was named with Middle High German torn ‘tower’.
THORNE:
  • English (mainly southern): variant spelling of Thorn 1.
  • Swedish: ornamental name from thorn, an ornamental spelling of torn ‘thorn bush’.

THORN family pages done are:
THORNE family pages done are:
b. = birth name
​d. = infant's/child's year of death
​m. = maiden name
h1. = surname of first husband
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