If you're still after this area of info - none of this has a father in it, I'm afraid, but I reckon that he's here ~
in 1861: RG9/2164 fo 22 p 38
in 1871: RG10/3151 fo 22 p 37
There's a William THORN of the right age in 1881: RG11/3027 fo 15 p 21, but he's a pearl button maker
If his...