TERCENTENARY EXHIBITION OF SIR JAMES THORNHILL OF DORSET (1675-1734) ARCHIVE.

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Reference number	D-510
Level of description	Fonds
Date	c.1975
Extent	0.0976124 cu.m. [2 Standard Boxes, 4 Flats]
Description	Photocopies and transcriptions of original documents, together with pedigrees of Sir James Thornhill [1675-1734] and family prepared for an exhibition at the Dorset County Museum (c.1975)
Language	English

Pedigrees of: Highmore of Purse Caundle, 1558-1780; Sydenham of Wynford Eagle, 1593-1718; Thornhull of Thornhill, c.1118-1789 (gap 1227-1545).. Copy wills, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, of members of Thornhull family. Photocopies of records in Dorset History Centre: deeds relating to Thornhill, in Stalbridge, (refs NB2, 5, 47A (part), 55A, 63A, 66E); christening record of James Thornhill inserted in register of Melcombe Regis, 1675 (ref P342/RE3).. Chancery suit, Joanna Aplin, widow, v Walter Thornhull, gent, for debt: interrogatories and depositions. (PRO refs C41/30, C22/954, with transcriptions. Photocopies). See S&D N&Q, April 1975.. Genealogical notes on Thornhull family.. Map showing James Thornhill's journes, i.e. places of work.. Catalogue of tercentenary exhibition..