Individual Details

The Thorlton family name is a variation of the name Tarleton of the Leyland Hundred, beginning in the early part of the 16th century. From there it migrated south to Gloucester, where the habit of adding the letter "H" was common in Lancashire and surrounding areas. This practice was most common in the Jute and Angle counties of Essex, Kent, and the Saxon counties of Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Doresetshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Buckingham, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire. The name's Tarlton, and Tarleton were present in Gloucester, and Lancashire but were rare elsewhere. In Gloucester the letter "h" was added to "T" creating the name Tharleton. Through time and variation the "a" was changed to "o" creating Thorleton. The name Thorleton was intermittently, Thorleton and Thorlton depending on who the scribe was.

In 1599 Iden Thorlton (3rd great grandaunt of Captain John Thorlton of Hartslog) married Myles Fowle. Their 2nd son George Fowle married Mary Tufts. Their 5th son Isaac Fowle married Beriah Bright. Their daughter Abigail Fowle married a sea Captain in Boston named William Smith. Their daughter Abigail married a lawyer from Braintree Massachusetts named John Adams, who became the 2nd President of the United States. Their son John Quincy Adams, the cousin of all the Thorltons today, became the 6th President of the United States of America.

Birth	19 Jan 1576	Kent, England
Christen	19 Jan 1577	Kenardington, Kent, England
Marriage	8 Jun 1599	Wittersham, Kent, England - Myles Fowle
Death	23 Jan 1610	Wittersham, Kent, England

Spouse	Myles Fowle (1569 - 1620)
Child	Anne Fowle (1604 - )
Child	George Fowle (1611 - 1682)

Father	Thomas Thorlton II (1553 - )
Mother	Wynifrid Nutwicke (1549 - )