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Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 7:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thackston
Dear Betty and Karra:

You say here that Richard was the father of John. Several trees on Ancestry.com do also, but provide no doccumentation. I have always suspected this but have found no evidence. You have helped me greatly in the past and I hope you can lead me to some solid doccumentation.

Glad to see that you are back in the Thackston business, as the premier experts in this area.

Ed Thackston

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 2:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
I've been following this Thackston/Thaxton thread with great interest and hope that you can perhaps point me in the correct direction. I'm searching for information related to the mother of my ancestor, Thackston Carter, who tradition says was a Mary Thackston. My Thackston Carter [sometimes spelled Thaxton] was born in Jackson County, TN and lived his entire life there. Family tradition says that his mother, Mary Thackston, died young and that his father, James Carter, remarried twice. Tradition also says that Mary may have been related to a family of Thackstons that included several traveling ministers. Does any of this sound familiar?

Thank you, Linda Moss Mines

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 9:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am also descended from Blake Baker Thackston and have written a Thackston History, now under revision. To answer your queston simply, There was a Lancelot Thexton, born in Bawtry, Yorkshire, M. A. from Cambridge, who was a sometime chaplain to Edward VI. He later became rector of Trunch in Norfolk County, England, and a member of the Bishop of Norwich's Council. He and his descendents were rectors of Trunch for over 150 years. He was awarded a coat of arms under the name of Lancelot Thackston, but all other references spell it Thexton, which was common in Norfolk. The spelling in Yorkshire was usually Theakston. No Englishmen came to Norfolk, Virginia, in the 1500s. The first English settlement was in Jamestown in 1607.
Edward L. Thackston 615-665-1325 elt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
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