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Robert THORNBURGH
(1661-)
Sarah JACKSON
(Abt 1668-)
Edward THORNBURGH Esq
(1691-1734)
Jean BROOKBANK
(-After 1734)
Robert THORNBURGH
(Abt 1704-1743)

 

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Susannah DAVIS

Robert THORNBURGH

  • Born: Abt 1704, Armaugh, Ireland
  • Marriage: Susannah DAVIS on 11 Oct 1729 in Birmingham Monthly Meeting, Chester County, PA
  • Died: 3 Aug 1743, Chester County, PA about age 39

   Other names for Robert were Robert THORNBERY and Robert THORNBURY.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Tax List, 1725, Chester County, PA.
Under FREEMEN
Robert Thornbury

• Tax List: Newlin, 1739, Chester County, PA. Robert Thornbery

• Estate, 1745, Chester County, PA.
Robert died intestate (no will) and Susannah Thornbury qualified as administrator and posted bond of 400 pounds with sureties Thomas Thornbrough and Benjamin Hawley. An inventory of the estate was made on 23 July 1745 by Michael Morgan and Benjamin Hawley. The bond and inventory were filed on 3 August 1745. Susanna signed with an "S".

Estate Papers of Robert Thornbrough - Chester County, Pennsylvania
(Information from Jane Beekman and Charles White) In the Estate papers of Robert Thornbury, widow Susanna made claim for maintenance of all children who were under 8 years of age, at 6 pounds per year. Mary was born "after the desease of her father" and was claimed for 8 years, hence that period evidently was the benchmark--perhaps a child could be bound out at age 8, and no longer had to be supported at home. Claims for the other children: Susanna= 0.75 year; Thomas 1.5 years; Hannah 4 years plus an additional claim for 2 of those years "whilst she was lame"; John 6 years. Birth dates were computed from these spans, given that the inventory of the estate was made on 23 July 1745, by Michael Morgan and Benjamin Hawley. Sussanah "S" Thornbury qualified as administrator and posted bond of 400 pounds with sureties Thomas Thornbrough and Benjm. Hawley. This was done and the inventory filed 3 Aug 1745.

Robert and Alice or Alsie are presumed to be children of Robert and Susanna Davis Thornbury; they were too old to be treated in mother Susanna Thornbury's claim for maintenance. Their proximity, relative marriage ages, and Robert II's estate papers led me to include them here. Other Thornbury records fail to include them as members of other families. There may be at least one other child missing from this group, given the age estimates.

• See also. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/ThornRobSus.html


Robert married Susannah DAVIS, daughter of John DAVIS and Mary, on 11 Oct 1729 in Birmingham Monthly Meeting, Chester County, PA. (Susannah DAVIS was born about 1705 and died after 1761.)


  Marriage Notes:

Susanna Davis was the daughter of John & Mary Davis of Thornbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Her sister Charity Davis married Thomas Thornbrough, brother of Robert on the same date at Birmingham Monthly Meeting. The same people signed both wedding certificates.

Susanna's mother, Mary Davis, signed the wedding certificate as did brothers John, Abraham, and Daniel Davis. Robert Thornburg's brothers, Walter & Edward Thornburg, signed as did his sister, Elizabeth Thornburg.


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