Hornor meaning | Last name Hornor origin

The surname Hornor is a variant of Horner. One who made horn spoons, combs, etc; one who blows a horn, a trumpeter; descendant of Hornher meaning "horn, army".

Is a form of the Horner. A manufacturer of horn. In London, the horners and bottle-makers form one Company. Horn was anciently applied to many uses for which glass and other materials are at present employed. "Horns," says Fuller, "are a commodity not to be slighted, seeing I cannot call to mind any other substance so hard that it will not break; so solid that it will hold liquor within it; and yet so clear that light will pass through it. No mechanical trade but hath some utensils made thereof; and even now I recruit my pen with ink from a vessel of the same. Yea, it is useful cap-a-pie, from combs to shoeing -horns. What shall I speak of many gardens made of horns to garnish houses? I mean artificial flowers of all colours. And besides what is spent in England, many thousand weight are shaven down into leaves for lanthorns, and sent over daily into France.

No wonder then that the Horners are an ancient corporation, though why they and the bottle-makers were formerly united into one company passcth my skill to conjecture.' Worthies of England, Lancashire.

The union between the two trades was probably formed, because vessels for holding liquors were the staple commodity of both.

Family name Hornor is the variant form of the Horner. The Horners, and two other families, who had greatly enriched themselves by the fall of the monasteries at the Reformation, were thus commemorated in sarcastic rhyme:
"POPHAM, HIORNER, and THYNNE;
When the monkspopped out, they popped in."

A writer in the Quarterly Review, April, 1860, in quoting the couplet, adds: "The Horners may rely on the nursery rhyme, in which Little Jack Horner puts in his thumb and pulls out a plum, i.e., a grant of fat abbey lands!".