William Thorley

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact: Dilhorne, Staffordshire England. Dilhorne is an ancient parish and village in Staffordshire, three miles from Cheadle and six miles from Stoke-on-Trent. The village is within the Staffordshire Moorlands area.
The name Dilhorne has its origins in the old English name of "Delverne" which means "place of digging"and is because Dilhorne sits on the Cheadle Coalfield and several seams of very high quality coal outcrop in the area. The name of Delverne, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggests that the area was known for coal mining nearly a thousand years ago.

William married Cicely Day, daughter of George Day and Cicely Price, on 19 Oct 1818 in Avenbury, Herefordshire England. (Cicely Day was born in 1799 in Ketley, Wellington, Shropshire England, christened on 4 Jan 1799 in Wellington, Shropshire England and died on 4 Dec 1857 in Workhouse, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (Sallop) England.)