The Thornycroft family was a notable
English family of sculptors, artists and engineers, connected by marriage to the historic
Sassoon family
The Sassoon family were a wealthy Baghdadi Jews, Baghdadi Jews, Jewish family dynasty, associated with finance, banking, capital markets, the exploration of oil and gas, Judaism, British Conservative Party, Conservative politics, opium trade wit ...
. The earliest known mention of the family is stated in
George Ormerod's ''History of Cheshire'' as during the reign of
Henry III in the 13th century, taking its name from a
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...
hamlet.
was the founder of the
Thornycroft shipbuilding company.
References
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Photographs of All Saints, Siddington, Cheshire, England, UK- has early history of the family tree and 18th-century family tree
Sassoon family
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