Släkthistoria för Thornborough
Thornborough Vad efternamn betyder
from any of various places including Thornborough in Allerton Mauleverer (WR Yorks) Thornbrough in South Kilvington (NR Yorks) Thornbrough in Corbridge (Northumb) and Thornborough (Bucks). The WR Yorks and Northumb place-names derive from Old English þorn ‘thorn’ + burh ‘fortress’ or ‘manor’. The NR Yorks and Bucks place-names derive from Old English þorn + beorg ‘hill mound’ and would naturally also develop Middle English forms in -berry so it is unsurprising that the derived surname also developed to Thornberry or Thornbury as illustrated by Ellen Thornberry 1711 Geo. Thornbury 1726 in IGI (Bedale NR Yorks) and Robert Thornberry 1747 Ann Thornborough 1769 in IGI (Howden ER Yorks). Some of the bearers below from NW England may belong with (2). in NW England sometimes a variant of Thornber as illustrated by Elizabeth Thornber 1767 Alice Thornborough 1802 in IGI (Brough Westm). adopted for various Irish names containing an element meaning ‘thorn’; compare Thornton.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
