William Valentine THACKER

Abt 1782 - 1868  (86 years)

• Name	William Valentine THACKER
  Birth	Abt 1782	Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England
  Christening	22 May 1782	Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	60734A8D7BA44773BC061CDAD68E2E511E36
  Death	1st Qtr 1868	Coventry, Warwickshire, England
  Burial	16 Jan 1868	St Peter, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
  Person ID	I735	Boxers
  Last Modified	13 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Dymoke THACKER,   b. Abt 1743, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England d. 1804, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Frances JOHNSON,   b. 1753   d. 1800 (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	5 Sep 1774	Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F1001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne MILLER,   b. Abt 1783, Warwickshire, England d. 1st Qtr 1850, Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	2 Dec 1802	St Andrews, Rugby, Warwickshire, England
  Children	1. William Miller THACKER,   b. Abt Dec 1804, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. 30 Apr 1858, Hockley Hill, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (Age 53 years)   2. Elizabeth THACKER,   b. Abt 1807, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Henry THACKER,   b. Abt 1809, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Andrew Jalland THACKER,   b. Abt 1811, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. 1865, London, Surrey, England (Age 54 years)   5. George Frederick THACKER,   b. Abt 1813, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   6. Frances Levina THACKER,   b. Abt 1820, Rugby, Warwickshire, England d. 9 Jun 1861, Waimea West , Nelson, New Zealand (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F287	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2006

  
  

• Notes

  William Thacker left Holbeach as a young man. This was the time of the Napoleonic wars and press gangs were operating all the time in the area of Kings Lynn. Many young men left the coastal areas in that vicinity to avoid being pressed into the Navy. William Thacker appears to have gone to Rugby, where he married Anne Miller when he was only 20 years old. He must have gone to Coventry to find work with Cash's Ribbon Company and did well enough to become a pattern drawer, not an ordinary weaver. He appears as a widower on the 1851 census. living in Cook Street, Coventry. He is still working on the 1861 census aged 79.