[Illustration] It has been supposed, but without any evidence or
authority, that this family is descended from Thorold, Sheriff of
Lincolnshire in 1052, and that consequently it may claim Saxon
origin. There is however no doubt that this is a family of very
great antiquity, and seated at Marston as early as the reign of
Henry I.
See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 338, and iv. 250.
ARMS.--_Sable, three goats salient argent_.
Present Representative, Sir John Charles Thorold, 11th Baronet.