THORNTON OF TYERSAL

 

I have not researched the earlier generations of the Thorntons in detail. Accounts of the family are given in:

 

Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 22-23

J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 1:133-36

Wilfrid Robertshaw, “The Hamlet or Manor of Tyersall”, The Bradford Antiquary, 9(1940-52):161-89

 

Some of the ancestry of Beatrice (Tempest) Thornton is traced in the work of Eleanor Blanche Tempest.

 

Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton’s father John Hobson was of Dodworth[1] in the parish of Silkstone. A John Hobson of Dodworth in the relevant period is stated to have married Anne Swyfte. If Anne was Elizabeth’s mother, and the other relevant connections in a pedigree in William Monck Mason’s History of the Church of St. Patrick[2] are correct, then Elizabeth may descend from King Edward III.[3] However, I have not yet closely investigated her forebears.

 

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THORNTON

 

1          WILLIAM THORNTON of Tyersal, Calverley, Yorkshire, gentleman, was buried on 16 November 1579 at Tong.[4] He married in 1563, BEATRICE TEMPEST,[5] daughter of Henry and Ellen (Mirfield) Tempest. Beatrice was buried on 24 January 1617/18 at Bradford.[6] After the death of William Thornton, she married on 27 August 1581 at Tong, William Shirtcliffe.[7]

 

Children of William and Beatrice (Tempest) Thornton:

2              i               RICHARD THORNTON (d ca 1613); m ELIZABETH HOBSON.

ii             ELIZABETH THORNTON, bur 27 Mar 1647, Worsbrough;[8] m(1) 31 Aug 1591, Tong, MARK FOXCROFT;[9] m(2) ca 1597, ROBERT ELMHIRST.[10]

iii            ANN THORNTON; m HUMPHREY CORDINGLEY.[11]

iv            TEMPEST THORNTON, bap 20 Feb 1574/75, Calverley.[12]

v              ELLEN THORNTON, bap Aug 1578, Calverley,[13] bur 21 Oct 1602, Calverley.[14]

 

2          RICHARD THORNTON of Tyersal, gentleman, died ca 1613.[15] He married on 2 September 1588 at Silkstone, ELIZABETH HOBSON,[16] daughter of John Hobson.[17] Elizabeth was baptised on 8 July 1571 at Silkstone[18] and died in 1617.[19]

 

Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton:

i               SARAH THORNTON, bap 1590, Silkstone,[20] bur 20 Jun 1624, Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York;[21] m 26 Apr 1614, Bradford, JOHN VAUX.[22]

ii             ELLEN THORNTON; m 18 Apr 1615, Bradford, JOHN BURROWES[23] (see here).

iii            DOROTHY THORNTON; m(1) 23 Jan 1620/21, Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, HENRY TONG;[24] m(2) 16 Jun 1634, Dunnington, WILLIAM ALDER.[25]

iv                       THORNTON, bur 16 Dec 1597, Calverley.[26]

v              ALICE THORNTON, bap 23 Sep 1599, Tong,[27] bur 27 Feb 1599/1600, Calverley.[28]

vi            TEMPEST THORNTON of Tyersal and Linthwaite, bap 8 Mar 1600/01, Bradford,[29] d ca 1630;[30] m 12 Feb 1620/21, Almondbury, MARGARET LOCKWOOD.[31]

vii           ANN THORNTON, bap 7 Mar 1601/02, Calverley,[32] bur 14 Mar 1601/02, Calverley.[33]

viii          ELIZABETH THORNTON, bur 24 Feb 1602/03, Calverley.[34]

ix            WILLIAM THORNTON of York, merchant, bap 18 Dec 1603, Calverley,[35] bur 30 Mar 1632, St Martin cum Gregory, York.[36]

x              RICHARD THORNTON, bap 3 Feb 1604/05, Calverley.[37]

xi            JOHN THORNTON, bap 21 Sep 1606, Calverley.[38]

xii           ANN THORNTON, bap 21 Sep 1607, Bradford,[39] bur 3 Apr 1650, St Peter, Leeds;[40] m 3 Oct 1627, Almondbury, ANTHONY WARWICK.[41]

xiii          PHEBE THORNTON, bap 5 Nov 1608, Bradford,[42] bur 26 Feb 1635/36, St Peter, Leeds;[43] m 5 Sep 1633, Leeds, ROBERT ASKWITH.[44]

xiv          CALEB THORNTON, bap 13 Oct 1611, Bradford,[45] bur 18 Feb 1611/12, Bradford.[46]


[1] Arthur J. Jewers, “Grants and Certificates of Arms”, The Genealogist, 27(1911):183.

[2] William Monck Mason, The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin (Dublin, 1820), 226.

[3] William Langton, ed., The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire, 1533, part 2 (Manchester, 1882), 166-70; Charles Best Norcliffe, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 (London, 1881), 104; G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs et al., 14 vols in 15 (London, 1910-59; Stroud, 1998), 3:293, 9:713-14.

[4] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[5] Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, vol. 2 (London, 1897), 12-17.

[6] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[7] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[8] Worsbrough parish registers; John William Clay, ed., Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers, vol. 1 (London, 1893), 227. There are two successive annual sequences of burials labelled 1647 in the parish registers.

[9] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[10] J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 3:411-12. Mark Foxcroft was buried at Leeds on 14 Jan 1596/97 (St Peter, Leeds, parish registers, online at www.ancestry.com) and Elizabeth’s son Richard with her second husband Robert Elmhirst was baptised at Worsbrough on 10 Sep 1598 (Worsbrough parish registers).

[11] Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[12] Samuel Margerison, Registers of the Parish Church of Calverley, 3 vols (Bradford, 1880-87), 1:41.

[13] Samuel Margerison, Registers of the Parish Church of Calverley, 3 vols (Bradford, 1880-87), 1:45.

[14] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[15] Abstract of Richard’s will in Charles A. Federer, “West Riding Cartulary”, The Bradford Antiquary, n.s. 3(1907-11):26-36, although the date of 18 Apr 1615 given there for the writing should apparently be 1613; Index of Wills in the York Registry, A.D. 1612 to 1619 (Worksop, 1900), 119; National Archives, catalogue entry for C 142/338/61.

[16] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[17] Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5, to which is added the Subsequent Visitation made in 1612 (London, 1875), 579.

[18] Silkstone Parish Registers, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Parish Register Section transcripts, 17 (2006).

[19] Index of Wills in the York Registry, A.D. 1612 to 1619 (Worksop, 1900), 119.

[20] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[21] Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[22] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); C.B. Norcliffe, “Paver’s Marriage Licenses”, The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 12(1893):429-32, at 431; Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[23] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); C.B. Norcliffe, “Paver’s Marriage Licenses”, The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 13(1895):371-86, at 380; Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[24] Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[25] Dunnington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); J.W. Clay, ed., Paver’s Marriage Licences (Worksop, 1909), 44.

[26] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com): “the sonne of Richerd Thornton buryed”.

[27] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[28] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[29] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The baptism of Tempest is also recorded under the date 18 May 1601 in the Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[30] J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 1:134; National Archives, catalogue entry for C 142/462/133.

[31] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Arthur J. Jewers, “Grants and Certificates of Arms”, The Genealogist, 27(1911):183.

[32] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[33] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[34] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[35] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[36] St Martin cum Gregory, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[37] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[38] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[39] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[40] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[41] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[42] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[43] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[44] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[45] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[46] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).