Bryan Thornhill from Hemingford, Huntingdon

[trish1120]

Hi David,

Thank you for that info

I just noticed Paul is from New Zealand in his profile. Whilst googling for Thornhill info I found this which may or may not be related;
"google"
Janus, Letters from the Thornhill Family in New Zealand.

There are also papers from the Thornhill Collection held in the Hunts Archives. The last Thornhill ( Noel) died without issue in 1956 and the papers donated.
The Thornhills originated in Fixby, Yorkshire and arrived in Diddington abt 1730.
They held estates and houses in ;
Boxwith, Cambridgeshire
Dowdyke Hall, Lincolnshire
Oxfordshire, Huntingdon, Offord Darcy, Southoe, Duloe
London, Bread St, Holloway, Angel Islington

A fitting posting for my 3000th as I have no Gentry in my line


Cheers,
Trish

[bedfordshire boy]

......... as I have no Gentry in my line

You have! It's just that you haven't got back far enough yet to have found them. They're there just waiting for you!

[Paul Street]

Trish,

I had a look into the meaning of "No Cure of Souls" (next to your post for William Thornhill in 1851) and found the following:

"The man concerned was a cleric or clergyman of the Church of England. He
held the educational qualification of "Master of Arts" (A.M.; or today
often termed M.A.) and was therefore most likely a graduate of Oxford or
Cambridge University. "No Cure of souls" means that he was not at that time
appointed to a position in any parish; either as a Curate, Vicar etc. To
hold a "Cure of souls" is to have the care of souls - to be in spiritual
charge of parishioners."

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DEVON/1999-11/0942310772

The article then refers to some published alumni lists for Cambridge and sure enough it is online and I found William.

http://www.archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri06univuoft#page/174/mode/2up

Has a lot of good info, including birth/death date, who he married etc.

Paul