Brief Life History of Maple Leafie
When Maple Leafie Thornton was born on 23 October 1885, in Lowell, Orleans, Vermont, United States, her father, William Richmond Thornton, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Cooper, was 28. She married Perley Henry Howard on 18 August 1903, in Littleton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Morristown, Lamoille, Vermont, United States for about 20 years.
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- Mabel Howard in household of Parley H Howard, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mabel Thornton, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Mabel Thurston, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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