This is a photograph of my Grandfather Patrick Luke Thornton and my Nana Margaret Thornton with their children. From left - Dorothy, Cornelius, Alexander (front), Eileen, Patrick (Jnr) and my mother Ellen.
Patrick Luke Thornton of Benalla Australia was born in 1872 in Frye to Bernard Thornton and Maria Cook Thornton. He had siblings Alice Thornton, Joseph Thornton, Patrick Luke Thornton, Bernard Thornton, William John Thornton, Ann Thornton, Joseph Thornton, Thomas Joseph Thornton, George Thornton, Maria Thornton, James Thornton, and Catherine Thornton. Patrick Thornton died at age 52 years old in 1924 in Benalla.
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