Alice Horner

Brief Life History of Alice

When Alice Horner was born in 1776, in Bolton Castle cum Redmire, Yorkshire, England, her father, Christopher Horner, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Forster, was 36. She married Thomas Driver Heaton on 15 June 1807, in Bolton Castle cum Redmire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She was buried in Kildwick, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Driver Heaton
1787–1851
Alice Horner
1776–1842
Marriage: 15 June 1807
John Driver Heaton
1809–1853
Ann Elizabeth Heaton
1811–
Christopher Driver Heaton
1814–1859

Sources (14)

  • Alice Horner, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Alice Horner, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
  • Elizabeth Heaton, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"

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1801 · The Act of Union

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Name Meaning

English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere), a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels, as containers, as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons, buttons, combs, handles, decorative tips for rods, and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example, Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 1421.

German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn, referring to their location at a spur of land, at a horn shaped piece of land.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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