Talk:Leonard Thornton

Family
Kia ora, hope you are well. There's nothing on Thornton's family. If you don't mind, I'll add some details; he's descended from the Caverhill / Isitt family. Just spotted it in some family tree and I'll now need to find some decent sources. , there's a family tree coming your way in a wee while. Six blue links and one red link should be enough, eh?  Schwede 66  02:23, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Question - why do you not use the DNZB entry as a reference for this article? And a question that I'm asking myself: why is his mother's spelling "Frances" everywhere but on the gravestone in Linwood Cemetery, where it says "Francis"? The family tree where I spotted the connection also uses "Francis", which is of course the usual spelling for a male.  Schwede 66  02:57, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Stonemason must have got it wrong? In The Press, she's Frances when she married and when she died. And always Frances in the electoral rolls, and in the Births, Deaths & Marriages indexes. Paora (talk) 04:33, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * RE the DNZB entry, that was not available at the time I was doing the substantive work on this article back in 2016. It does look to have the family details you want to add. Zawed (talk) 08:07, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * It even says so in the small print: "was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2021"  Schwede 66  09:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've had a go. Please tweak as you see fit.  Schwede 66  20:24, 29 March 2022 (UTC)