Thornton Family of Bourbon and Harrison County
Estate Records
Thornton Marriage Records
Bourbon, Fayette and Harrison Counties
Offsite Link - more Thornton Marriages in Harrison County
Biographies
Judge Anthony Thornton, born November 9, 1814 Paris, Bourbon Co., KY, died September 10, 1904 Shelbyville, Shelby Co., IL, burial Glenwood Cemetery; s/o Anthony Thornton & Mary Towels, g/s of Anthony Thornton & Mary Rootes
Church Records
Presbyterianism in Paris and Bourbon County, Kentucky, 1786-1961
December 8, 1873. Memorial to John Rootes Thornton, an elder, who died December 4, 1873, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.
Benjamin Mills, son of Judge Ben Mills and his wife Mary Read, daughter of General Anthony Thornton,
Thornton Family Research Notes
Lucy Thornton Will
Henry Walker Thornton (s/o Anthony & Mary Towels Thornton)
Dr. John Thornton, nephew
Towles Thornton, John Thornton's son
Mary Lucy Mills, niece (possible d/o Mary R. Thornton & Benjamin Mills)
Molly Rootes Thornton McAboye (married Benjamin Mills)
Elizabeth & Judith Thornton, daughters of sister Judith Presley Thornton
Dixon & Conway Thornton children Sarah Lucy & William
Anthony Thornton Sr Will
Lucy Dixon Thornton, daughter
John Rootes Thornton, son
Lewis Thornton, son
Judith Presley Thornton, daughter
Mildred R. Whitney, daughter of Judith Presley Thornton (married Dewey Whitney 1827 Harrison Co.)
Lewis Read Thornton, grandson
Henry Walker Thornton, grandson
Mary Rootes Thornton, granddaughter
Anthony Thornton, grandson, son of Mildred
Charles Taliaferro Thornton
Ann Walker, wife
Anthony Thornton, brother
Walker Buckner, brother in-law
John Rootes Thornton Will
Anthony R. Thornton, son
Mary R. Thornton McAboy Will
Anthony R. Thornton, cousin
Thornton Census: Bourbon & Harrison
1850 Kentucky > Bourbon > District 1, HH# 114/119
Jno R. Thornton, 62, Male, Lawyer, VA
Eliza M. Thornton, 54, Female, KY
Anthony R. Thornton, 19, Student, KY
Mary R. McAboy, 34, Female, KY
Tho W Owings, 34, Male, Physician, KY
Mary A. Owings, 22, Female, KY
(Thornton, John B. married Owings, Eliza M., Bk. 2-Pg 88, 5 Oct 1825, by Moreland)
(Thornton, Mary R. married McAboy, Paradise L., Bk 2-Pg 185, 24 Apr 1839, by E. C. Young)
1860 Kentucky > Bourbon > Paris, HH# 87/93
Jno B. Thornton, 73, Male, Lawyer, 6000, 15000, VA
Anthony R. Thornton, 28, Male, 1000, 2000, KY
Mary R. McAboy, 40, Female, -----, 2000, KY
1850 Kentucky > Bourbon > District 2, HH# 393/395
Thornton, John R. 32, Male, Physician, KY
Thornotn, Ellen, 23, Female, KY
Thornton, Thomas, 3, Male, KY
(Thornton, John R. married Fisher, Ellen, Bk. 2-Pg 241, 24 Feb 1846, by E. P. Pratt)
1860 Kentucky > Bourbon > District 1, PO Ruddles Mills, HH# 270/287
Jno R. Thornton, 41, Male, Physician, KY
Ellen Thornton, 34, Female, KY
Towles Thornton, 13, Male, KY
1850 Kentucky > Harrison > District 2, HH# 116/118
Mary Richeson, 90, Female, VA
Lucy Thornton, 95, Female, Black, Virginia
1850 Kentucky > Harrison > District 2, HH# 179/179
Lucy Thornton, 66, Female, VA
Henry Thornton, 30, Male, KY
1860 Kentucky > Harrison, HH# 1163/1163
H. W. Thornton, 39, Male, Farmer, 17850, 20000, KY
1870 United States Federal Census > Kentucky > Harrison > Cynthiana, HH#50/50
Thornton, Walker, 49, Male, White, Farmer, 18000, 3000, KY
Stephens, Edward, 24, Male, White, Farm Hand, KY
Talbot, Chas, 27, Male, Black, Farm Hand, KY
Talbot, Stephen, 16, Male, Mulatto, Farm Hand, KY
Fisher, Eads T. 14, Male, Black, Farm Hand, KY
Tolbert, Fanny, 30, Female, Black, Domestic, KY
Tolbert, Mary, 22, Female, Black, Domestic, KY
Fisher, John, 26, Male, Black, Farm Hand, KY
Slough, Sunis, 12, Male, Mulatto, Farm Hand, KY
Sparks, Eliza, 12, Female, Mulatto, Domestic, KY
Dydes,Sarah, 14, Female, Mulatto, Domestic, KY
Thornton, Jno R., 51, Male, White, Physician, KY
1870 Kentucky > Harrison > Cynthiana, HH# 52/58
Cynthiana House (hotel)
Andrew J. Thornton, 33, Male, White, IN
