Brief Life History of Anne Andersdatter
When Anne Andersdatter Thorning was born on 15 June 1776, in Nordby, Fanø, Ribe, Denmark, her father, Andreas Andersen Thorning, was 36 and her mother, Anne Marie Jacobsdatter Aabenraa, was 32. She married Matthis Lauritzen Matthiesen on 3 February 1804, in Nordby, Fanø, Ribe, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 24 September 1837, in her hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Nordby, Fanø, Ribe, Denmark.
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Name Meaning
English:
(Devon): topographic name from Middle English thorning ‘dweller by a thorn bush’, from Middle English thorn + -ing ‘man’, a type of locative formation peculiar to Devon.
perhaps also a habitational name from either of two places called Thurning (in Northamptonshire and Norfolk), probably derived from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + the groupname suffix -ingas, or from thorning ‘thorny place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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