"...named after Thorndale, the residence of James Bruce, D.L., one of the directors of Dunville's Distillery" (John J. Marshall, Belfast Telegraph, 19/02/1941).
“That Mr Henry Stewart be permitted to name a new street off Duncairn Avenue running parallel to Antrim Road ‘Thorndale Avenue’", Minutes of the Town Improvement Committee, 3rd January 1872.