When Harriet A. Thornton was born in 1856, in Macomb, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, her father, Caleb Thornton, was 37 and her mother, Lovina Polina Ingraham, was 32. She married James Franklin Hesselgrave in 1877, in Saint Lawrence, Cape Vincent, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880. She died in 1929, in St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Heuvelton, Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename is most frequent in northern England, especially Yorkshire, where there are at least 16 possible sources for the surname.
Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan ).
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