Timeline

I’ve put together a handy time line guide to the key people and events in this story. This may help separating the generations, which become very confusing when first names are repeated. If you spot any errors, please drop me a line! **The line spaces separate either generations or groups.

• James Jauncey Sr b.1726; d. in Bermuda, loyalist, merchant ship owner
• Mary (Smith) Jauncey b. 1721; d. 1788; m. to James Jauncey
• John Jauncey Sr born.1726; d.1767 in Bermuda, captain of the merchant fleet
• Sarah  Vantienhoven b. 1717; d. 1763; m. to John Jauncey September 07, 1737

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James Jauncey Sr’s Children

• William Jauncey b.1744; d.1828 died without children
• James Jauncey Jr b.1747; d.1777; m. Eleanor Elliot (b. 1756) Nov 20th, 1773; died without children
• Mary Jauncey died without children about 1821
• (Thomas?) John Jauncey Jr b. 1755 approx; d. after 1790 father of Jane Mary

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• Jane Mary (Jauncey) Thorn(e) b. 1790; d. 2/10/1873 m. Herman Thorn(e) 1 Oct 1810 by Rev. Mr. Strebeck
• Herman Thorn(e) b. 24/12/1783; d. 31/7/1859

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Thorn Children

• William Jauncey Thorn (Jr) b. 9/7/1811; d. 19/11/1830
• Angelina Jauncey Thorn b. 1813; d.1877
• James Jauncey Thorn b. 1814; d.1845
• Mary Jane Jauncey Thorn b. 1816; d.1866
• John Jauncey Thorn b. 1818; d.1819
• Jane Mary Thorn b.1821; d.1873
• Herman Thorn (Jr) b. 1823; d.1849
• Alice Thorn b. 1825; d.1874
• Alfred Thorn b.1827; d.1854 
• Zerlina Thorn b. 1829 approx.; d.1841
• Eugene Thorn b. 1831; d.1876 
• Ellen Thorn b. 1833 in Paris; d.1891
• Ida Thorn b. 1835; d.1867 

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Thorn Family’s Spouses

• Therese Von Leykam b.1808 approx; d.1856 (m. 1834, James Jauncey Thorn)
• Antoine Raymond Camille de Varaigne b.1809; d.1872 (m. 1832, Mary Jauncey Thorn)
• Etienne (Stephan) de Pierres b.1809; d.1872 (m. 1842, Jane Mary Thorn)
• Lewis (Louis) de Pau b.1815; d.22 Apr 1879 (m. 1835, to Angeline Thorn)
• Amedee de Ferussac b.1817; d.1897 (m. 1845, Alice Thorn)
• Clotilde Barili b.1827; d.1856 (m. 1848, Alfred Thorn)
• Mary Hyslop b.1831; d.1876 (m. Eugene Thorn)
• Edward Kirkland b.1833; d.1891 (m. Ellen (Helen) Thorn)
• Samuel Mickle Fox b.1835; d.1893 (m.1852 Mary Adele Livingston; m. Ida Thorn; m. Amelia de Pau – Ida’s niece)

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Thorn Grand Children (still verifying)

• Angelina Jauncey Thorn – Silvia; Amelia; Francis; Jane Mary
• James Jauncey Thorn  – William, Jane Marie
• Mary Jane Jauncey Thorn – Theodore Camille; Jeanne Marie Camille
• Jane Mary Thorn – Stephan Henri, Herman Fortunee, Jeanne Marie
• Herman Thorn (Jr) – nil
• Alice Thorn – Alice Adele; Amedee Just Pascale Eugene; Louis Herman; Anatolie Helene Henriette
• Alfred Thorn  – Henrieuquta ; Hermann (both died as infants)
• Zerlina Thorn – nil
• Eugene Thorn  – nil
• Ellen Thorn – Eugene, Charles
• Ida Thorn – Herman, Francis, Albert, Ida

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Family Event Timeline

• 1810 – Herman and Jane elope to marry
• 1811 – Young William Jauncey Thorn is born
• 1813 – Angeline Jauncey Thorn is born
• 1814 – James Jauncey Thorn is born
• 1815 – Thorn’s are living with William Jauncey at 24 Broadway
• 1816 – Herman is court martialled from the Navy by Commodore Decatur
• 1816 – Mary Thorn is born
• 1818 – John (Jonathon) Thorn is born and dies in 1819
• 1819 – Mr Brant writes a letter in verse to Miss Mary Jauncey (Jane’s aunt) of Broadway
• 1821 – Jane Thorn is born
• 1823 – Herman Jr Thorn is born
• 1825 – Alice Thorn is born
• 1827 – Alfred Thorn is born
• 1828 – William Jauncey (Sr) dies
• 1828 – Thorn’s move to Apthorpe manor (1829-30)
• 1829 – Zerlina is born
• 1830 – Thorns in Europe (1830-45)
• 1830 – Young William Jauncey Thorn is killed in a riding accident at Cambridge
• 1830 – Colonel Thorn is presented to the French King, Louis Philippe, alongside James Fenimore Cooper
• 1830 – Thorns living in Florence, Tuscany (1830-32)
• 1831 – Eugene Thorn is born
• 1831 – Mary elopes with Camille de Varaigne
• 1832 – Thorn’s move to Paris and into the Hotel Matignon
• 1832 – Mary marries Camille de Varaigne
• 1833 – Ellen Thorn is born
• 1834 – Thorns holiday in Baden Baden
• 1834 – James marries Therese von Leykam
• 1835 – Angeline marries Louis Augustus de Pau
• 1835 – Ida Thorn is born
• 1835 – Thorn’s hold the first Episcopalian Mass at Hotel Matignon
• 1836 – Thorns make a trip back to New York on the Rhom/Rhone, leaving from Port of Le Havre (25th July, 1836)
• 1836 – Zerlina Thorn drowns at Trenton Falls on their trip to New York
• 1838 – Thorn’s lease Chateau de Courteille in Normandy
• 1839 – Herman, Jane Mary and Herman Jr travel on The Great Western liner
• 1840 – Thorn’s host the incomparable Louis Quatorze Ball in Paris at Hotel Matignon
• 1842 – Jane marries Baron Etienne de Pierres
• 1842 – Liszt plays at Colonel Thorn’s salon in Paris as a fundraiser for the German orchestra
• 1842 – 1860s – Jane and Etienne keep a Paris residence at Rue Montaigne (13 and/or 16)
• 1843 – Stephan Henri born to Jane and Etienne de Pierres
• 1845 – Herman Fortunee born to Jane and Etienne de Pierres
• 1845 – Alice marries Amedee de Ferussac
• 1845 – Thorn family in Frascati, Italy (May)
• 1845 – James Jauncey Thorn dies in Paris
• 1845 – Thorn’s leave Hotel Matignon for the Forbin Hotel in Provence
• 1845 – Thorn’s return from Paris to New York permanently on September 29th, 1845 and stay in New Brighton, Staten Island
• 1845 – Herman writes from New York to his daughter Jane who is living in Chateau de Fougery near Craon
• 1846 – Herman Jr resigns from the Hussars and is accepted into the US Army
• 1846 – Thorn’s move into 15 Laight Street, Manhattan (1846-47)
• 1847 – Thorns move into 22 West Sixteenth (between 1847-48), Manhattan, newly built and designed by Trench and Snook
• 1848 – Jeanne-Marie is born to Jane and Etienne de Pierres
• 1848 – Alfred marries Clotilde Barili
• 1849 – Herman Thorn Jr dies in Mexico – on duty
• 1850 – Baron Etienne de Pierres sells Chateau de Fougeray
• 1854 – Alfred Thorn dies on a ship returning from Peru
• 1856 – Eugene marries Mary Hyslop
• 1857 – Ida marries Samuel Fox
• 1858 – Ellen marries Edward Kirkland
• 1859 – Herman Thorn dies in New York
• 1866 – Mary (Thorn) de Varaigne dies in Paris
• 1867 – Ida (Thorn) Fox dies in New York
• 1870 – Jane and Etienne have a Paris residence at 101 Quai D’Orsay
• 1873 – Jane Mary (Jauncey) Thorn dies in New York
• 1873 – Jane (Thorn) de Pierres dies in France
• 1874 – Alice (Thorn) de Ferussac dies in New York from surgery complications
• 1876 – Eugene Thorn dies in New York
• 1877 – Angeline (Thorn) de Pau dies in New York
• 1879 – Louis de Pau dies in France
• 1891 – Ellen Thorn Kirkland dies in New York (last of the Thorn children left alive)