When Thomas North was born on 15 March 1787, in Orange, New York, United States, his father, Thomas North, was 38 and his mother, Sibel Gridley, was 24. He married Hannah Osterhout about 1810. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cornwall, Orange, New York, United States in 1810. He died on 14 September 1829, in New York, United States, at the age of 42.
English: topographic name from Middle English north ‘north’, denoting someone who had migrated from the north, especially someone from northern England living in the south of the country. It may also have been used to denote someone living in the northern part of a settlement or region.
Irish: in Ireland, adopted for Mac an Ultaigh ‘son of the Ulsterman’, Ulster being the northern part of Ireland.
German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with a cognate of Old High German nord ‘north’.
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