Ester Thackeray

Brief Life History of Ester

When Ester Thackeray was born in 1860, in Canada, her father, Francis Thackeray, was 40 and her mother, Mary A Moore, was 28. She lived in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States in 1870.

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Family Time Line

Francis Thackeray
1820–1896
Mary A Moore
1832–1876
Mary Etta Thackery
1846–1922
Elizabeth Thackeray
1848–
Ellen M Thackery
1853–1882
Francis William Thackeray
1856–1925
Catherine Jane Thackery
1858–1926
Ester Thackeray
1860–
Richard West Thackeray
1863–1931

Sources (2)

  • Ester Thackery in household of Frank Thackery, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ester Thackeray - Published information: Census record: birth-name: Ester Thackeray

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1869

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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