Born c1838 in Wellington, Somerset, the father of Gervaise Thorne (61C, 91C).
1861 | Stone ware pottery packer, 36 Thomas Street, St Thomas’s parish (23), living with his wife Mary Ann (22) born in St Mary Redcliffe parish (61C). |
1864 | 6 Apr. ‘A pen of very superior speckled bantam fowls to be sold. Apply to Thos Thorn, Messrs Price’s Pottery, Thomas Street’ (Bristol Times & Mirror). |
1870 | 3 Mar. ‘Died on 24 Feb at Price’s Pottery, Thomas Street, Sarah Jane Thorne, youngest daughter of Thomas Thorne, aged two years and ten months’ (Western Daily Press). |
1870 | 17 Dec. ‘Died December 11 at Price’s Pottery, Thomas Street, Thomas Joseph, the eldest son of Mr Thomas Thorne, in his ninth year’ (Bristol Mercury). |
1871 | 13 Feb. He was noted as the manager of Price’s Pottery (Western Daily Press). |
1871 | Foreman at potteries, 36 Thomas Street, St Thomas’s parish (31), living with his wife Mary A. (30) and children Gervaise (3) and Mary A. (5) both born in Bristol (71C). |
1875 | 14 Sep. ‘For sale. Willoughby pug dog, thoroughbred, 12 months old, £3. Apply T. Thorne, The Potteries, 69 Victoria Street’ (Western Daily Press). |
1881 | Foreman at pottery, 3 County Place, Bedminster (42), living with his wife Mary A. (41), china dealer, and children Mary A. (15), Gervais (12), Thomas J. (8), Kate E. (6), all born in St Thomas’s parish, Herbert W. (4) and Edith H. (2), both born in Bedminster (81C). |
1888 | 2 Jan. At the bazaar of the Hebron United Methodist Free Church, Staple Hill, a ‘great attraction was the stoneware pottery, worked by Mr Thorne of Bristol’ (Bristol Mercury). |
1891 | Pottery foreman, 10 Byron Terrace, Bedminster (52), living with his wife Mary A. (51) and children, including Arthur (9) and William James (6), both born in Bedminster (91C). |
1901 | Traveller, lodging at Temperance Hotel, March, Cambridgeshire (62). His wife was living at 14 Nutgrove Avenue, Bedminster with their children (01C). |
1911 | Formerly potters traveller, Windmill Hill, Bedminster (73), living with his wife Mary Ann (72) and their son William James (27), feeble minded from birth (11C). |