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Thackeray / Thackray

Thackeray Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble Yorkshire now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse thak ‘thatching reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook corner’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Thacker, Harker, Hackney, Thackery, Blackerby, Hackman, Haverly
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Plot No. 136

Sarah Thackeray 1824
Mary Thackeray 1820
Thomas Thackeray 1855
William Thackeray 1807

Plot No. 418a

Arthur Vivian (Viv) Thackeray 1980
Nellie (Bly) Elizabeth Thackeray 1889

Above Church Entrance

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Thackeray Plot 136

Arthur Vivian Thackeray Plot 418a

Church Entrance Plaque

Inscription

In Memory Of
Sarah,
Wife Of William Thackeray Of
Thornthwaite,
Who Died The 3rd Day Of March
1824
Aged 33 Years.
Also Of Mary, Their Daughter
Who Died In Her Infancy.
Also Of Thomas, Son Of The
Above
William And Sarah Thackeray
Who Died The 3rd June 1855
Aged 18 Years.
Also Of The Above William
Thackeray
Who Died At Boroughbridge April
2nd 1867
Aged 75 Years.

In Loving Memory
Of
Arthur Vivian (Viv)
Pelaham Thackeray
Died 16-9-1980
Aged 73 Years
Nellie (Bly)
Elizabeth Thackeray
Died 7-12-1989
Aged 81 Years

To The Memory Of
William Makepeace
Who Suffered At The Stake For The Protestant Faith
At The End Of Queen Mary's Reign
And Also In Memory Of His Descendants
The Thackerays Of Hampsthwaite
Who Owed Their Manliness, Goodness, And Success In Life
To Their Training In Homes Of Piety And Great Simplicity.
This Porch Has Been Added To Their Parish Church,
By A Few Of Their Surviving Descendants
Ps. XV. I. 2

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Plot No.	Name	Burial Date	Age
418a	Arthur Vivian Pelaham THACKERAY	16. Sep. 1980	73
	Jane THACKERAY	10. Nov. 1799	32
136	Mary THACKERAY	8. Feb. 1820	1
418a	Nellie Elizabeth THACKERAY	7. Dec. 1989	81
136	Sarah THACKERAY	7. Mar. 1824	33
136	Thomas THACKERAY	3. Jun. 1855	18
136	William THACKERAY	2. Apr. 1867	75

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