When Ann Thornley was born about 1829, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Thornley, was 24 and her mother, Ellen Crosley, was 23.
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English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from Thornley in Lancashire, and perhaps also from Thornyleigh near Heaton in Leek (Staffordshire) and Thornleigh in Huddersfield (Yorkshire). The Lancashire name derives from Old English thornede ‘thorny’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The other placenames derive from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ or thornig ‘thorny’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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