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Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 21 Jan 2008 8:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thackston Thaxton
25 years ago, my mother Betty Porter and I began researching all Thackston / Thaxton families in the U.S. We took a break from research for a while, but Mom recently retired and is now working hard to computerize our information.

Our database has about 20,000 entries, and is growing rapidly. We also hope to start posting our original research on a website. If you are researching any U.S. Thackston / Thaxton or descendant, please write. We would love to exchange info. We also both live near the LDS Family History library, and can do research there.

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 27 Jan 2008 3:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: THACKSTON
Hi Karra, I contacted you & your mom awhile back. Also, you have a copy of my greatgrandfather & his family photo that I put on here. Please let me know when you get your website up & running. Your mom was going to send me some info. but, I never heard from her again. Also, she was going to try to come to the reunion. It is every year, 1st. Sunday in June. Hampton Ga.

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 29 Jan 2008 1:04AM GMT
Classification: Query
Joan, I need to apologize for not providing materials I said I would send. Unfortunately, I no longer have my previous emails and cannot remember what I promised you. If you will refresh my recollection, I will be glad to send you the information you requested.

P.S. I am still having a problem with my email (my server's fault, they tell me), but I will reply promptly.

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 29 Jan 2008 1:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: THACKSTON
Hi Karra, I can't remember what it was either but, I come down from Thomas Jasper Thackston. Any thing you are willing to share from him back would be a help. I think you got the family photo of Thomas's family I put on here one year, do you have any photo's you would share or documents on the family.

Joan

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 29 Jan 2008 1:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have prepared a family group sheet showing what we have on the Thomas Jasper Thackston family. I need your email address to send it to you. My direct email address is betty_porter@comcast.net or you can just reply to this message.

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 22 Feb 2008 12:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: CARTER, RAGLAND
Karra - -
Thank you for your posting.

I'm trying to research a Mary Thackston who married James N. Carter who lived in Jackson County, Tennessee. Their son, Thackston Carter, is my great, great, greatgrandfather through his daughter Julia Ann Carter who married John Savage Ragland. Savage and Julia's daughter, Feraby Jane Ragland Brown, was the mother of my beloved grandmother, Aleatha Ann Brown Apple.

I would very much appreciate any information you might provide me and I'll be glad to share the descending line information that I have obtained. I'm in Tennessee and would be glad to also research any other line/etc. for which you need Tennessee assistance.

Linda Moss Mines
lsmines@gps.edu

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 30 May 2008 9:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
I would love to exchange info that I have if it will be helpful in anyway

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 1 Jun 2008 9:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
I tired to access your email address to send you what information I have on John Westley Thackston and Lucinda Cook so that you could let me know if you had additional information, however, I was unable to access your email address.

You can either reply to this message or contact me directly at betty_porter@comcast.net. I would like us to compare notes to see if we have information to share.

Thanks for replying.

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 6 Jun 2008 8:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thackston
Hello Karra: I'm glad to see you're back. Nobody knows Thackston better than you. Maybe we can make some more progress now. I have done little on the Thackston line since I retired in 2000, but I do have a few new things that I can send you.


First, I got a plot of the early land grants in Prince Edward Co. from a distant cousin, Curtis Thackston of Lynchburg, and I adjusted the scale to match modern USGS maps and was able to plot James Thackston's land, and that of all of his neighbors onto a modern map. The fit was amazingly close to modern roads, streams, fencelines, etc. I can send you a Xerox copy, or I could have it scanned onto a disk and send you a copy of that. Nothing I have now is in digital form, except the typescript "The Thackston Family of Tennessee" (1993), which I think you have a copy of. (I also need to update that.) I also got from Curtis a chart of the family of "Theakston of Theakston" (in Yorkshire), which I still believe that we are somehow connected to, as I described in my 1993 edition. I could also have that scanned. It is about two feet by three feet.
My main interest now is discovering the connection between John Thackston, whom you found in Virginia around 1700, to his ancestors in England. Was he really the one baptised in London in 1680, as someone has claimed, or was that someone else? Let me hear from you. Send me your e-mail address and your mailing address and I will send you either of the items I mentioned above, if you want them. My e-mail address is elt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu.

Ed Thackston

Re: Thackston / Thaxton database

Posted: 30 Jun 2008 6:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
My great great great grandmother is Amanda Frances Thackston, daughter of Blake Baker, son of Zadok. I understand there is a connection to a Lancelot Thackston around the 1500’s who was a chaplain to king Edward. He came to Norfolk, Va in the 1500’s I believe. That’s all the info I have on him. Anyone have anything?
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