When Georgiana Elizabeth Silverthorn was born on 4 June 1869, her father, George Anson Silverthorn, was 28 and her mother, Eliza Jane Stevens, was 29. She married William W. Moshier on 27 December 1886, in Lamotte Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States. She lived in Lamotte Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States for about 30 years and Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died in 1958, at the age of 89, and was buried in Moshier Cemetery, Hemans, Lamotte Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States.
English (mainly Bristol and Gwent): apparently a habitational name from some lost or unidentified place deriving its name from Old English seolfor ‘silver’ + thorn ‘thorn bush’. It is very local to the Steeple Ashton area of Wiltshire, and may even be from the proper name of a local tree such as a hawthorn (whitethorn).
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