Thackray Family
History of the Thackray. surname.
This unusual name is of Old Norse origin and is either a locational or a topographical surname. If the former, it derives from the place called “Thackray” in the Parish of Great Timble, in West Yorkshire which has now been submerged in the Fewston reservoir. The placenames’ meaning and derivation are from the Olde Norse elements “thak”, meaning thatching, reeds and “(v)ra”, meaning a nook or corner. The topographical surname denotes one who lived at such a “nook or corner” – “where reeds for thatching grew”.
The name development has included John Thackerowe (1548, Yorkshire). James Thackerey (1602, ibid.) and Thomas Thackwray (1613, ibid.). On February 10th 1642, John, son of John and Ann Thackray was christened at St. Andrews, Holborn, London. The marriage of Robert Thackeray and Margaret Eaton took place on July 22nd 1688 at St. Mary’s, St Marylebone Road, London.
Probably the most famous bearer of the name was the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863), author of “Vanity Fair” (1848).
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John de Tha Kwra, which was dated 1379, the Yorkshire Poll Tax Returns. during the reign of King Richard 11, Richard of Bordeaux, 1377 – 1399.
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The following information is relevant to Thackray families from the Grewelthorpe area.
Records taken from Parish Registers. School records. Census and Memorials.
Some records spell the name Thackwray ot Thackeray. But I have used the same spelling throughout.
Bramley Grange and Kexmoor are areas of Grewelthorpe. See items in History section of this web site.
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Researched by Barbara Bradley. Last update March 2010.
ALBERT THACKRAY. Born C. 1911 twin of Norah. Son of William & Annie Rose Page.
ANN THACKRAY. born 1825. bur. 22.5.1876. wife of Robert Thackray of Fellbeck.
ANN THACKRAY. born 1841 died 16.8.1854 at Winksley. Buried Grewelthorpe M.I. Dau of John & Margaret from Bramley Grange. See photo of grave at end.
ANN THACKRAY. Born C.1849 Winksley. Dau of Joseph [Boot & Shoemaker]
ANNE THACKRAY. born 1861.at Eavestone. bur 10.3.1882. dau of William & Jane of Bramley Grange.
ANNIE ROSE THACKRAY [nee PAGE.] Born 21.4.1880 Banbury Oxon. Died 28.9.1964 Glasshouses, Pateley Bridge. 2nd Wife of William of Bramley Grange.
ANNIE THACKRAY. born 1881 dau of James & Elizabeth.
ANNIE THACKRAY. Born 28.6.1903.dau of John & Sarah Ann of Folgate Nook, Bramley Lane, G/thorpe. Started school 1911 left 1917.
DAVID THACKRAY. Born C.1810 Aldfield. Married to Jane from Ripon. [b.1810]. Farming in Winksley 1861.
DAVID THACKRAY. Born C. 1845 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
DORIS THACKRAY. Of Sunny Bank, North Leys, Ripon.Died June 20th ? Left £19,594.71 gross. She left her clothing to the South London Mission,other effects & personal legacies totalling £5,250 and the residue equally between Sawley Methodist Chapel, Allhallowgate Methodist Church and the District Blind Soc. The guide dogs for the Blind Assoc. The Methodist Homes for the aged, The Methodist local preachers Mutual Aid Assoc and the RSPCA.
DOROTHY THACKWRAY. Bap. 18.8.1605 Ripon Cathedral. Dau of Waltert of Thorp.
EDEN THACKRAY. Born 1866 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George & Rebecca Metcalfe.
ELEANOR THACKRAY . born 2.12.1890 dau of William & Jane, landlord of Crown Hotel, G/Thorpe. Came to G/Thorpe from Middlesmoor, Pateley Bridge. Started school 2.5.1904. In 1911 she was helping in Crown. Died March 1937. Wife of Robert Frankland. see Obit on Frankland page.
ELEANOR THACKRAY. Born C. 1839. Wife of George Ascough. see Ascough family details. Married 30.4.1864 in Kirkby Malzeard.
ELLEN THACKRAY. Born 1769. Died 1847. Married Joseph Lonsdale. of Sawley in 1791. They had 10 children.
ELLEN THACKRAY. Born C1839 at Eavestone. Dau of James & Mary. Married on 30.4.1864 at Kirkby Malzeard church to George Ascough. [b. 1838] son of John Ascough. see Ascough page.
ELLEN THACKRAY. Born C. 1853 Grantley. Died 1932 Pateley Bridge. Dau of George & Rebecca Metcalfe.. She married Thomas Millward. [1846-1885]. in Pateley Bridge in 1870.
ELLEN THACKRAY. Born 1855 at Eavestone. Dau.of Robert & Ann.
ELLEN THACKRAY. Born C. 1889 Wath. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane. Living Stonebeck 1901.
ELI THACKRAY. Born 1865 Kirkby Malzeard. Died 1915 Leeds. Son of George & Rebecca Metcalfe. Married in 1887 to Christiana Elizabeth Porter. in Leeds.
ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born 1855 at Eavestone. Dau of Robert & Ann.
ELIZABETH BEAUMONT THACKRAY. nee Ascough. Born 1829 in Grewelthorpe. Buried 12.5.1923. Wife of James Thackray. M.I.
ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born C.1850 Winksley. Dau of David & Jane.
ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born 1857 Kirkby Malzeard. wife of James Thackray of Kexmoor.
ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born 1878 at Grewelthorpe dau of James & Elizabeth of Kexmoor.
ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born 1884 married Mark Bell of Ramsgill in 1905.
EMILY THACKRAY. Born 1857. Dau of George & Rebecca Metcalfe. Married in 1873 to [1] David Light. Married in 1885 to [2] Robert Young.
EMMA THACKRAY. Born 1859 Kirkby Malzeard. Died 1881 Pateley Bridge. Dau of George & Rebecca Metcalfe.
ERNEST THACKRAY. Born and died 1896.
ERNEST THACKRAY. Born 20.11.1915. Buried Mickley 29.8.1992. Son of George. Started school in April 1922, left district shortly after. Lived Clayton Farm Mickley when he died.
ESTHER THACKRAY. Born C.1894 Stonebeck. Dau of Robert & Mary. Living Stonebeck in 1901.
ETHEL THACKRAY. Born 26.3.1898. dau of John & Sarah Ann. Started school April 1904. Caught Scarlet fever in epidemic which swept the village in 1906. Living Foulgate Nook with parents 1911.
FRANCES THACKRAY. Born 1900. Dau of G.Thackray. Died 1947 Grewelthorpe. See Obit. on Trenholme page. Married William Leonard Trenholme. Lived Mowbray Hall, Grewelthorpe.
FREDERICK THACKRAY. Born 1870 son of James & Elizabeth of Kexmoor.
GEORGE THACKRAY. Born C.1824 in Sawley. Died 1902. Son of James of Warsill. Married Rebecca Metcalfe. [b.1825.] in 1843. Farmer at Bramley Grange. Had 9 children.
GEORGE THACKRAY. Bap. 19.10.1851 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George & Rebecca Metcalfe. of Bramley Grange.
GEORGE THACKRAY. Born 1868 in Grewelthorpe. Buried 3.9.1938 M.I. Son of James & Elizabeth of Kexmoor. Married Mary Ann. Farmed Bramley Grange & Ilton. Retired 1924. Breeder of Half breed Masham lambs. Won the Jubilee Cup for his lambs. Methodist Chapel steward. Secretary of the Trustees.
GEORGE THACKRAY. Born 1896 in Grewelthorpe. Son of John & Sarah Ann. 1911 worker on parents farm at Foulgate Nook. Bramley.
GEORGE THACKRAY. Served in WW1. Name on honours board in Grewelthorpe church.
GEORGE WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born C.1922. Killed in a Tractor accident May 1943. Son of Herbert Thackray of Highfield House, Ilton.
GERTRUDE THACKRAY. Born 18.2.1901 dau of John & Sarah Ann of Bramley Grange. Started school 23.4.1906. Living Foulgate Nook with parents in 1911.
HARRY THACKRAY. Son of R.Thackray of Bland Close, Ripon. Married Janet A.Goundry dau of Joseph Goundry of Grewelthorpe June 1946.
HENRY RICHMOND THACKRAY. Bap. 6.1.1850 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John & Margaret.
ISABELLA THACKRAY. Born 1835 at Eavestone. [1851 census]
JAMES THACKRAY. Born 1800 at Warsill. Farmer at Kexmoor. Married [1.] Mary of Sawley. [2.] Elizabeth Beaumont Ascough.
JAMES THACKRAY. Born C. 1839 son of James of Kexmoor. Married on 12.11.1866 at Kirkby Malzeard church to Elizabeth Watson. [b.1844] son of *John Watson.*of Thwaite House.
JAMES THACKRAY. Born 1846. Died 1901 Pateley Bridge. Son of George & Rebecca Metcalfe. Married [1] in 1868 to Margaret Hullah. [1842-1891]. Married [2] in 1892 to Allinson Lowcock. [1864-1941].
JAMES THACKRAY. Born 1848 at Eavestone son of George & Rebecca. A carter in 1861 census.
JAMES THACKRAY. Born 1839 at Eavestone. Son of James & Mary of Kexmoor. Married Elizabeth of Kirkby Malzeard [1881census] a carter and farmer.
JAMES THACKRAY. Born C. 1854 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
JAMES THACKRAY. Bap. 15.8.1858 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Richard & Mary of Warren Lane.
JAMES THACKRAY. Born C.1898 Fountains Earth. Son of Robert & Mary Jane.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 1789 at Middlesmoor wife of Thomas Thackray the butcher.
JANE THACKRAY [nee?]. Born C.1810 Ripon. Married to David [Farmer in Winksley].
JANE THACKRAY. Born C. 1825 Biggin. Dau of Thomas. married on 5.5.1856 at Kirkby Malzeard church to John Watson. [b.1828] son of John Watson. of Kexmoor.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 1833 at Eavestone dau of James & Mary.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 1839 at Hauxwell. Wife of William Thackray, Farmer at Bramley Grange.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 1846 at Kirkby Malzeard. Buried 24.1.1867. Grewelthorpe M.I. dau of John & Margaret Bramley Grange. See photo of grave at end.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 1887 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane. Living Stonebeck 1901.
JANE THACKRAY. Born 17.4.1895. dau of William of Crown Hotel, G/Thorpe. Started school 19.4.1904.
JANET THACKRAY. Dau of Joseph Goundry of Grewelthorpe. Wife of Harry Thackray, Ripon. Married June 1946.
JANE THACKRAY. Born C. 1833 dau of James of Kexmoor. Married on 9.11.1858 at Kirkby Malzeard church to Thomas Watson. [b.1829] son of John Watson. of Kirby Moor,
JINNIE THACKRAY. Born C. 1896 Middlesmoor. Dau of William [Innkeeper] & Jane. Living Crown Hotel, Grewelthorpe in 1911.
JOHN THACKWERAY. Bap. 2.12.1604 Ripon Cathedral. Son of Rici Thackweray of Sawley.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born 1814 at Laverton. Buried 25.7.1893 Grewelthorpe M.I. son of Thomas the butcher & Jane. Married Margaret of Grantley. see photo of grave at end.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born C.1843 Winksley. Bobbin Turner. Son of William & Ann.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born C.1847 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born C. 1852 Winksley. Son of Joseph [Boot & Shoemaker]
JOHN THACKRAY. Born 1857. Bap. 26.4.1857. Buried 16.5.1876. Son of John & Margaret of Bramley Grange. See Photo of grave at end.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born 1880.Bap 16.1.1881. Son of Robert & Mary Jane of Bramley Grange.
JOHN THACKRAY. Born 1873 son of James & Elizabeth of Kexmoor. Living Foulgate Nook, Bramley in 1911. Married to Sarah Ann of Kirkby Malzeard. Married C.1896. Had 5 children. 1 died.
JOHN WILLIAM THACKRAY. Bap. 25.10.1942. Mickley. Son of Ernest & Mabel. Lived Church View, Mickley.
JOSEPH THACKRAY. Born C.1813 Winksley. Boot & Shoemaker.
JOSEPH THACKRAY. Born C. 1847 Winksley. Shoemaker. Son of Joseph [Boot & Shoemaker]. Living Winksley 1861.
JOSEPH THACKRAY. Bap.3.12.1848 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George & Rebecca Metcalfe. of Bramley Grange.
LAURA ANN THACKRAY. Born 1879. Bap. 27.7.1879. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Mary Jane. Living Stonebeck 1901.
LEONARD THACKRAY. Born C1855 Winksley. Son of Joseph [Boot & Shoemaker]. Living Laverton unmarried in 1871.
LOUIE THACKRAY. Eldest dau of Mr Robert Thackray of Highfield House, Ilton. married Francis Thomas Graham younger son of Mr. H.Graham of Grimesgill, Healey. At Park Street, Methodist Chapel in January 1949.
MARTHA THACKRAY. Bap. 1.2.1857 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Richard & Mary of Warren Lane.
MARY THACKRAY. Born 1802 in Sawley. Wife of James of Warsill.
MARY JANE THACKRAY. Born C. 1831 Eavestone. Dau of William & Anne. Married John Baul. 25.8.1852. See Baul family details. Sister of William Thackray of Bramley Grange. 1881 census.
MARY THACKRAY. Born C. 1839 Winksley. Dau of Joseph [Boot & Shoemaker]. Unmarried in 1861.
MARY THACKRAY. Born 1844 in Fellbeck dau of George & Rebecca Metcalfe.
MARY ANN THACKRAY. Born 1849 at Eavestone. Dau of John of Bramley Grange.
MARY JANE THACKRAY. Born C. 1850. Bap. 13.6.1852 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Richard & Mary of Warren Lane. Married on 28.3.1872 at Kirkby Malzeard church to William Topham. [b.1845] son of Thomas Topham. of Galphay.
MARY JANE THACKRAY. Born C. 1856 Fountains Earth. Wife of Robert. Living Stonebeck 1901.
MARY ANN THACKRAY. Bap. 24.2.1861 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of John & Margaret of Bramley Grange.
MARY THACKRAY. Bap. 1.11.1861 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Richard & Mary of Warren Lane Kirkby Malzeard.
MARY ANN THACKRAY. Born 27.2.1898 dau of William & Jane of Crown Hotel, Grewelthorpe. Came from Middlesmoor. Started school 19.4.1904. Living Crown Hotel in 1911.
MARGARET THACKRAY. Born 1821 in Grantley. Buried 19.2.1871. Grewelthorpe M.I. Wife of John of Laverton. See photo of grave at end.
MARGARET THACKRAY. Born 9.6.1898. dau of William & Jane of Crown Hotel, Grewelthorpe. started school 2.5.1904. Living Grewelthorpe in 1911.
MAGGIE THACKRAY. Bap 30.4.1882. dau of Robert & Mary of Bramley Grange. Living Stonebeck in 1901 as a dom.servant.
MARJORIE ELIZABETH THACKRAY. Born 7.1.1904 Rodwell House Wath. Died 11.10.1961 Headingley Leeds. Dau of William & Annie Rose Page.
NORAH THACKRAY. Born C.1911 Twin of Albert. Dau. of William & Annie Rose Page.
POLLY THACKRAY. Dau. of William of Bramley Grange & 1st wife Jane? Wife of Alf Moore.
REBECCA THACKRAY [Nee Metcalfe]. Born 1825 at Fellbeck. Wife of George of Bramley Grange.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born 1842 at Eavestone. Son of James & Mary of Kexmoor.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born 1850 in Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John & Margaret.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Bap. 26.12.1860 Kirkby Malzeard. Illeg. child of Ellen of Kexmoor.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born 1861 at Kexmoor. Son of James & Mary.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born C. 1861 Middlesbro. Died October 1937. Lived Bramley. Buried Kirkby Malzeard.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born 1876 in Grewelthorpe son of James & Elizabeth of Kexmoor.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Bap 16.9.1883. Son of Robert & Mary of Bramley Grange.
RICHARD THACKRAY. Born C. 1885 Bramley Grange. Living Ramsgill in 1901 as unmarried Dom.Servant.
ROBERT THACKRAY. Born C. 1809. Son of William. 1st wife died before 1852. He Married as a widower on 3.11.1852 at Kirkby Malzeard to Mary Ann Thackray. [b.1822] dau of George Thackray. Both lived at Ramsgill.
ROBERT THACKRAY. Born 1827 at Eavestone. A Farmer.married Ann of Fellbeck.
ROBERT THACKRAY. Born C. 1837 Winksley. A Carter. Married Martha Burton. [b.1840]. They Lived with her Mother in Winksley in 1861.
ROBERT THACKRAY. Born 1844 at Kirkby Malzeard. Married Mary Jane of Pateley Bridge. Living Stonebeck 1901.
The above is possibly the Robert Bap. 1.2.1846 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John & Margaret.
ROBERT THACKRAY. Born C. 1856 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
RUTH THACKRAY. Born 1864 at Eavestone. Died 24.10.1917.M.I. dau of William & Jane of Bramley Grange. Married Robert Coldbeck.
SAMUEL W. THACKRAY. Farmer in Grewelthorpe. Husband of Selina Mary of Kirkby Malzeard.
SAMUEL THACKRAY. Born C. 1851 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
SARAH ANN THACKRAY. Born 1874 at Kirkby Malzeard. Married John Thackray, Farmer of Grewelthorpe.
SELINA MARY THACKRAY. Died 12.5.1939. Lived Cliffe House, Grewelthorpe. Funeral at Kirkby Malzeard. Wife of Samuel W. Thackray Farmer in Grewelthorpe.
THOMAS THACKRAY. Born 1787 at Eavestone. Butcher & Farmer. Married Jane of Middlesmoor.
THOMAS THACKRAY. Born 1844 at Kirkby Malzeard. Grandson of Thomas the Butcher. Son of John of Laverton.
THOMAS THACKRAY. Born C. 1865 Lofthouse, Pateley Bridge. Died Jan 1940 Masham. Lived in Masham. Blacksmith. See Obit at end.
THOMAS THACKRAY. Born C. 1889 Bateley Carr. Son of William [Innkeeper] & Jane. He was a fruiterer in 1911. Unmarried. Living Crown Hotel, Grewelthorpe.
THOMAS THACKRAY. Born C.1896 Stonebeck. Son of Robert & Mary Jane.
WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born C. 1807 Winksley. Married to Ann born Azerley in 1804.
WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born C.1833 Eavestone. Farmer at Bramley Grange Grewelthorpe. Married C1861 to Jane of Hauxwell. They had 2 children, 1 died. In 1911 living with granddau Annie & husband John Ascough. Married about 1910.
WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born 1842 or 1848 at Bramley Grange. Bap. 11.6.1848 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John & Margaret. 1st wife Jane? Had 3 sons, 5 daughters. 2nd wife Annie Rose Page. Had 3 children.
WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born C. 1848 Winksley. Son of David & Jane.
WILLIAM THACKRAY. Born C. 1861 Middlesmoor. Married to Jane of Middlesmoor. he was butcher and landlord of Crown Hotel, Grewelthorpe in 1911. had 5 children in 1911.
Obituary in Ripon Gazette dated 18.1.1940 for Thomas Thackray. 1865-1940.
The death of Masham Blacksmith.
Mr Thomas Thackray of Swinton Terrace, Masham died in Masham aged 75years. He lived in Masham for over 50 yrs Having been born in Lofthouse near Pateley Bridge. He worked for the late Henry Atkinson and then for Messrs. Theakston until about 12 years ago when failing eyesight caused him to retire.
Grave of George & Mary Ann in Grewelthorpe Churchyard.
Grave of John Thackray 1814-1893 in Grewelthorpe Churchyard.
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Grave of Ann, Jane, John, & Margaret [Mother] Thackray of Bramley Grange.
