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