William Thornton

• Birth Notes
  • Birth:  abt 1795 in Cowick, Yorkshire, England
    
    Age 40 in 1841 (rounded)
    Age 56 in 1851 (born 1795)
    Age 66 in 1861 (born 1795)
    Age 77 in 1871 (born 1794)
    
    
    Possibly the following
    WILLIAM THORNTON
    Event(s):
    Birth: 
    Christening:  12 JAN 1794   Pontefract, Yorkshire, England
    Parents:
      Father:  WILLIAM THORNTON
      Mother:  SARAH 
    

• Death Notes
  • Still alive at Monthill, Yorkshire in 1871 (age 76)
    
    Probably died in Yorkshire, near Monkhill, Pontefract, where he was living in 1861 and 1871.  However, there are no matching deaths for Pontefract for William of the correct age (within 10 years).
    

• General Notes
  • Old William was a contractor for the railways, so travelled the country. We can trace where he was from the birthplace and christening records of their children: Portsea, Hampshire in 1821; Havant, Hampshire in 1823-25; Beverley, Yorkshire in 1827-32; Downham, Norfolk in 1836; Welton, Northampton in 1838; Royston, Yorkshire in 1839; Epping, Essex in 1842. He then appears to have returned to Yorkshire. Prudence married Thomas Kirkness in Pontefract in 1847 which is about 8 miles from Cowick where William was from. He was retired by 1861 and 1871 and predumed dead by 1881.

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¹ 1851 UK Census

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