Orange County Indexed
The Thornton surname
The Thornton name in Orange County Indexed: 7 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the chronology
- 1917 to 1983 7 people in 10 entries, most in the 1970s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1929
- People with a page here
- Mary Lindsay Thornton, William E. (William Edgar) Thornton
- Spellings to try
- Thurston, Tooreton
- Search beyond these records
- Thornton in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Thornton there)
- Thornton in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 7 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Thornton, Barbara 2 entries, 1979
- Thornton, Jim 1 entry, 1959
- Thornton, Mary Lindsay 2 entries, 1917–1958
- Thornton, Weldon 2 entries, 1978–1979
- Thornton, Weldon E. 1 entry, 1980
- Thornton, William 1 entry, 1983
- Thornton, William E. 1 entry, 1967
In books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
