Thornberry Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Thornberry Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Thornberry

The ancient history of the name Thornberry was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Thornbery, Thornberrie, Thornborough, Tornborough, Tornberry, Thornburg and many others. Over the centuries names were changed according to how they sounded and were pronounced with the same name often being both spelled and pronounced differently in neighboring towns and cities. This name is usually of English locational origin and is taken from places of the name found in Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire. This locational name describes a person who lived near a thorny enclosure near a stream or river. Thornborough in North Yorkshire was originally recorded as Thornebergh in the twelfth century. Other places named Thornbury are found in Devon, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The town charter of Thornbury in Gloucestershire was granted in the year 1252 by Richard de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester and lord of the manor of Thornbury. An early bearer of the name was William Thornburgh who contributed a site for a Chapel in Kendal Parish in Westmorland in the year 1720. The names Thornberry and Thornbury in Ireland are usually of immigrant origin having been introduced into Ulster by settlers from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century. It is in the Northern Counties that the majority of descendants bearing this name in Ireland can today still be found.