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Where did the English Thornburg family come from? What is the English Thornburg family crest and coat of arms? When did the Thornburg family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Thornburg family history?
The ancestors of the Thornburg surname lived among the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. The name comes from when they lived in Thornborough found in the counties of Buckinhamshire and North Yorkshire. Thornburg is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. During the Middle Ages, as society became more complex, individuals needed a way to be distinguishable from others. Toponymic surnames were developed as a result of this need. Various features in the landscape or area were used to distinguish people from one another. In this case the surname was originally derived from the Old English thorn broc which means that the original bearers of the surname Thornburg were named due to their close proximity to the stream by the thorns.
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Before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago, spelling variations of names were a common occurrence. Elements of Latin, French and other languages became incorporated into English through the Middle Ages, and name spellings changed even among the literate. The variations of the surname Thornburg include Thornborough, Thornbury, Thornberry, Thornborrowe, Thornbery, Thornburgh and many more.First found in Cumberland where they held a family seat at Selsheyd in that shire, from very ancient times.
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A great wave of immigration to the New World was the result of the enormous political and religious disarray that struck England at that time. Families left for the New World in extremely large numbers. The long journey was the end of many immigrants and many more arrived sick and starving. Still, those who made it were rewarded with an opportunity far greater than they had known at home in England. These emigrant families went on to make significant contributions to these emerging colonies in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants:
Thornburg Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Edgar Thornburg, who settled in America, in 1892
- Mrs. Thornburg, who emigrated to America, in 1892
- R. Thornburg, aged 18, who landed in America, in 1892
- Mr. Frank Thornburg, aged 38, who landed in America, in 1894
- T. G. Thornburg, aged 48, who landed in America, in 1897
Thornburg Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Lena Thornburg, aged 42, who emigrated to the United States, in 1904
- Bernhard Thornburg, aged 0, who emigrated to the United States, in 1905
- Sophie Thornburg, aged 50, who emigrated to the United States from Paris, France, in 1912
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- Lee Thornburg, American trumpeter who has played with many artists
- Lacy Herman Thornburg (b. 1929), American lawyer and judge
- Alan Z. Thornburg (b. 1967), American lawyer and jurist
- Newton Thornburg (1929-2011), as an American novelist and screenwriter
- Jeremy Robert Thornburg (b. 1982), American football safety
- Max Weston Thornburg, American former petroleum advisor the United States Department of State and a senior oil executive for the Standard Oil
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- Forebears of the Thornburg and Hockett Families by Velma Hockett Bosworth.
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- Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
- Burke, Sir Bernard. Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Compainonage. London: Burke Publishing, 1921. Print.
- Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 Edited by Samuel Eliot Morrison 2 Volumes. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968. Print.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Humble, Richard. The Fall of Saxon England. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-987-8).
- Hitching, F.K and S. Hitching. References to English Surnames in 1601-1602. Walton On Thames: 1910. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0181-3).
- Leeson, Francis L. Dictionary of British Peerages. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1121-5).
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
- Ingram, Rev. James. Translator Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1823. Print.
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