Records of Harry Thornicroft on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Harry Thornicroft and the Thornicroft Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thornicroft Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Thornicroft family tree.

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Thornicroft Family Tree Databases

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Some Famous People called Harry Thornicroft

Harry Scott Thornicroft

Henry Scott Thornicroft, nicknamed "Dongolosi"(16 January 1868 – 19 March 1944) was a British Native Commissioner in Petauke, in North-Western Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) for 17 years and later a Justice of the Peace in Fort Jameson (now Chipata).

Thornicroft was born in St Pancras, London, the son of coal merchant Thomas Thornicroft and his wife, Matilda. In Rhodesia, Harry Thornicroft married a local woman and had 11 children, including Gaston Thornicroft, later a leader of the coloured community. Thornicroft's Giraffe, a subspecies of giraffe endemic to the Luangwa Valley, is named after him, from a specimen which he had shot and sent to the Natural History Museum, London, where it was displayed.

He died in Northern Rhodesia.

Source: Harry Scott Thornicroft, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Thornicroft

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