Thorn Family History
Thorn Name Meaning
English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a
thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse þorn). The name
is also found in Sweden.English: habitational name from a
place named with Old English, Old Norse þorn ‘thorn bush’
(see 1), 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’.German: habitational name from the city of Thorn
(Torun in Poland), which was named with Middle High German
torn ‘tower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Thorn
Name Distribution of Thorn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thorn families
 130 - 258  44 - 129 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Thorn families
|
413 - 824 138 - 412 |
1 - 137 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Thorn families
|
16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Thorn census records
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Thorn Family Origin
Thorn Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Thorn
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Thorn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Thorn census records
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