Amthor meaning | Last name Amthor origin

The surname is the form of Torr. In the West of England, a craggy eminence, or more generally a hill. Places specifically so called are Tor-Abbey, Tor-Bryan, and Tor-Quay, all in Devonshire, De la Tor is the Hundred Rolls form.

A variation of Thornes. The name is local, from Thornes in the parish of Shenstone, in the county of Stafford, where Robert, son of Roger de la Thorne, was resident early in the fourteenth century.

Amthor is the form of Thurn. Of tower and badger. The Prince de Tour et Taxis, as styled in French, carries in his Arms a tower and a badger.

Amthor is variant of Thorne. Dweller near a thornbush.

At the gate.

Amthor is a variant form of the Toren. Of the tower.

Amthor is variation of Thorn. Parishes and places in counties York, Somerset, and Northumberland. There are also many trivial localities so called, in many counties. In Anglo-Saxon charters, thorn-trees frequently occur as boundary-marks, which from the great longevity of the tree is quite natural; and the word enters into the composition of numerous place-names. In medieval writings, the surname Thorn is latinized De Spineto, spinetum being equivalent to "a bushy place," or thicket of thorns and brambles, anglicè a Spinney, whence that surname. There have doubtless been several families of this name. The most important one were the Norman Thorns of Thorn-Falcon, and Thorn St. Margaret, in Somersetshire, who held under Drogo, of the castle of Dunster, and gave lands to Taunton Priory. Domesday Fromthem seem to have branched off the Thorns of Devon, Yorkshire, Kent, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Northamp tonshire, etc. At Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, county of Kent, one of the ancient abodes of the family, on a tomb of one of the female members, of about the date of Edward I, is this legend :-
"ICI GIST EDILE DE THORNE, QUE FUST D'NA DEL ESPINA."
(Here lies Edila de Thorne , who was lady of the Thorne)
Hasted

In a list of persons who gave landsand slaves to Meaux Abbey, county of York (Cott. MS. Vitell, Cvj, and referring to circ. A.D. 1300) is this entry: "Walter, son of Peter de Spine to (Thorn) gave us, with his own body to be buried in our house, one ox-gang of land at Hornsburton, and Henry, the son of Simon the tenant, and all his belongings." — "Walterus filius Petri de Spineto dedit nobis, cum corpore suo apud nos sepeliendo, unam bovatam terre in Horns burtone, et Henricum filium Symonis ipsam tenentem cum sequela sua." The last who used the latinized name was Sir Guy de Spineto, lord of Coughton, whose heiress married Throgmorton. This personage was sometimes gallicized to Sir Guy de la Spine. John Thorne, abbot of Reading, a member of this family, who became historical from the fact of Henry VIII's having starved him into a good appetite, and charged him a hundred pounds for the operation, used the motto-
SÆPE CREAT PULCHRAS
ASPERA SPINA ROSAS.

His kinsmen, Robert and Nicholas, benefactors to Bristol, were painted by Holbein, and the corporation, in gratitude, placed over the picture of the latter the unscriptural legend: Ex SPINIS UVAS COLLEGI MIS- "We have gathered grapes from Thorns?" The motto over Sir Robert, the father, is
"Spina vocor, superest tribuatur gloria danti
Quæ bona pauperibus Spina dat esse Deo."

Thorne is sometimes derived from an Anglo-Saxon personal name. An individual called Simon, the son of Thorne, was lord of the manors of North Allerton and Todwick (Elreton and Todeswick) in Yorkshire, at the time of the Conquest. These manors William seized, and gave them, together with Simon's daughters, in marriage to three of his followers - one of the young ladies being assigned to Humphrey, his man-at-arms; another to Raoul, called Tortes-mains; and the third to an esquire, Guillaume de St. Paul. Thierry's Norm. Conq.