When Nancy Thorn was born on 24 October 1841, in Summerhill Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Asahel Enoch Thorn, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Lester, was 32. She married David Osborn on 25 December 1857, in Three Mile Creek, Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Rexburg, Fremont, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 April 1918, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rexburg Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse thorn, Middle English thorn(e), torn(e)). The name is also found in Sweden.
English: habitational name from a place called with Old English, Old Norse thorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1 above), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.
North German and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesNancy Thorn Osborn was born October 24, 1841 at Crawford County, Summerhill Township, Pennsylvania. She emigrated to Utah in September 1853. In writing the life history of Nancy Thorn Osborn, one fe …
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