When Elizabeth Thorndike was christened on 13 October 1751, in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Johnathan Thorndike, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Semicroft, was 28. She died on 7 February 1752, in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, England, at the age of 0.
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Gregorian calendar was adopted in England in 1752. That year, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14th, 1752, which caused the country to skip ahead eleven days.
English (Suffolk and Lincolnshire): habitational name from a lost placename composed of Middle English thorn ‘thorn’ + dike ‘ditch, dyke’ (Old English thorn + dīc), perhaps in Lincolnshire.
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