When Thomas Thurston was born about 1510, in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Thurston, was 11508 and his mother, Joan, was 23. He married Alys Hicks on 25 September 1539, in Oldbury on the Hill, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 2 September 1544, in his hometown, at the age of 35.
English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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