Brief Life History of Charlotte Matilda Blake
Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley was born on 28 June 1818, in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland as the daughter of Blake and Matilda Blake. She married Abraham Coates Stoker on 16 January 1844, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 15 March 1901, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium, Harold's Cross, County Dublin, Ireland.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley - Individual or family possessions: birth: about 1818; Sligo 2, Sligo, Ireland
- Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley, "Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage License Bonds Indexes, 1623-1866"
- Charlotte Matilda Blake Stoker, "Ireland Deaths, 1864-1870"
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1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1845
The Irish Potato Famine. Many Irish emigrate to America. Irish population drops from 8 million to 6 million due to death from starvation or emigration.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from Thornley in Lancashire, and perhaps also from Thornyleigh near Heaton in Leek (Staffordshire) and Thornleigh in Huddersfield (Yorkshire). The Lancashire name derives from Old English thornede ‘thorny’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The other placenames derive from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ or thornig ‘thorny’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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