When Elizabeth Thorndike was christened on 6 December 1807, in Laxfield, Suffolk, England, her father, Jonathan Thorndike Or Thornock, was 58 and her mother, Mary Reeve, was 29.
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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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