FIRST GENERATION

1.  William (Thomas?) Thorneycroft *

 Said to have been born in Flore, Northampton (early 1820s?)

	+2	i.	Charles F? Thomas? Thorneycroft.

SECOND GENERATION

2.  Charles F? Thomas? Thorneycroft, born in Flore, Northampton, recorded in one instance as 10 November 1854 but may have been born earlier (a second record shows a birth year of 1835). Sgt. Major, British Colonial Army. Served in Nova Scotia (1879?-82) and Bermuda (1882) before returning  to England (address 5 Upper Lloyd Street, Mosside, Manchester). Reported to have spent close to 50 years in the military; date of death however is assumed to be c. 1902.

Anna E. Cooke, born Nova Scotia, 9 November, 1856, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Married 1879, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.

	+3	i.	Charles William Thorneycroft.

Mary Letitia Bagnell, born Gabarus, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 27 February 1862. Married 1. Charles Thorneycroft
1883, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Married 2. George E. Harris (born c. 1853) on 8 February 1905. Died 5 May 1947.

	4	ii.	Norman Bagnell Thorneycroft.  Born c. 1895, Manchester, England. Died Passchendale, 1917. Private, 25th Battalion. 

THIRD GENERATION

3.  Charles William Thorneycroft was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7 November, 1880. Died Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 16 March, 1935. Buried Greenwood Cemetery, Glace Bay, Cape Breton. Educated University of Manchester. Occupations included fisherman, interior/exterior decorator, sign writer and house painter. In obituary, is reported to have also been survived by “several relatives in England.”

Jane Maria Bagnell, born 17 February 1886, Gabarus, Cape Breton, died 14 September, 1964, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Baptised 9 February, 1887 by Rev. George W. F Glendenning, Gabarus. Married 1 September 1909 by Rev. John William Hobbs. Buried Fredericton Rural Cemetery, Fredericton, NB.

	+5	i.	Charles Austin Bagnell Thorneycroft.
	
	+6	ii.	William Howard Vincent Thorneycroft.

FOURTH GENERATION

5.   Charles Austin Bagnell Thorneycroft (known as Austin Thornycroft) was born in Gabarus, Cape Breton, 27 June 1910. Died Fredericton, New Brunswick, 21 September 1980. Buried Fredericton Rural Cemetery, Fredericton, NB.

Florence Sara Brown, born Newfoundland. Married 1935. Died 1988? Scarborough, Ontario. Buried Fredericton Rural Cemetery, Fredericton, NB.

		i.	Helen Marie. (b. 27 January 1936).
		ii.	Gladys Irene (b. 1948).

6.   William Howard Vincent Thorneycroft (known as Vincent) was born in Gabarus, Cape Breton, 16 February, 1915. Baptised 7 May 1915 by Rev. Frederick J. Pentelow. Royal Canadian Army Signals Corps, WWII (inducted 14 August 1942 at age 27) and subsequently until 1965 (attained rank of Staff Sergeant. SF32107). National Employment Centre (Canada Manpower) from April 1965 to retirement 29 December, 1979. 

Jacoba Adriana Gijsberta Hoogstraten, (known as Coosie or Cozy) born 26 September, 1922, Loosdrecht, The Netherlands. Married Hilversum, The Netherlands, 10 January, 1946.

	+7	i.	Charles Jackson.
	+8	ii.	Lawrence Austin Howard.
	+9	iii.	Brenda Marie Joyce.

FIFTH GENERATION

7.   Charles Jackson Thorneycroft was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 29 July 1947. Educated University of New Brunswick and University of Southern Mississippi. Educator. Now living in Tega Cay, South Carolina, USA.

Margaret Ruth Amos, born Bathurst, New Brunswick. Married 7 March 1970, Fredericton, N.B. Divorced 1989.

	+10	i.	Trina Joy. 

Linda Hudgins Rutherford, born Bluefield, West Virginia, 17 August 1943.  Married 3 January 1990.

8.   Lawrence Austin Howard Thorneycroft was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 11 April 1956. Baptised Wilmot United Church by Rev. Aubrey Moore, 24 June 1956. Now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, unmarried, no issue.

9.   Brenda Marie Joyce Thorneycroft was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 13 July 1960. Baptised Wilmot United Church by Rev. G. J. Minielly, 6 May 1962. Educated University of New Brunswick. Now living in Ottawa, Ontario. No issue.
 
Norman Blair Sharpe, born Westmount, Quebec, 25 July 1954. Married 25 January, 1991, City Hall, Toronto, Ontario. 

SIXTH GENERATION

10.   Trina Joy Thorneycroft was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 6 April 1973.

Lawrence Fraser. Married 19 June 1993, Grace Memorial Baptist Church, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

		i.	Austin Stuart Fraser. (born 3 August 1994)
		ii.	Eden Lawren Fraser. (born 8 March 1997)

SOURCES

* Peter Thorneycroft reported a William (-no Thomas) Thorneycroft bp.7 Dec.1823, son of John & Maria Thorneycroft of Flore. They married in Flore on 24 Nov 1822. There is another son, John bp. 29 June 1825 - but no further entries, and no deaths recorded. They don't appear in Northampton in 1851 Census. 

Verbal records of Vincent Thorneycroft.

Records researched by Kathryn Bagnell Fraser, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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