When James Walter Thrasher was born on 3 February 1883, in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, his father, Abraham Thrasher, was 50 and his mother, Jane Harriet Horricks, was 43. He married Vira Elizabeth Whitmore on 14 June 1910, in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1883 and Renfrew, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 30 January 1937, in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 53.
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English: occupational name from Middle English thressher ‘thresher’, a derivative of Old English therscan, threscan, thryscan ‘to thresh’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Drescher .
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