Our surname research history shows the variation in spellings of this surname has occurred often

eg:- Thackwray, Thackeray, Thackray, Thackerray, Thackuray, Thackerey, Thackary, Thackwraye, Thackrey, Thackery, Thackory, Thacerey, Thakkerey, Thackrah, de Thakwra, Thakvra ...

- in fact, there are family trees with different spellings between father, son & siblings,

- this surname name originated in the North of England,

- most of us will have at least one Thackwray-Thackeray-Thackray+ variation antecedent born in the Yorkshire, England hotspot !

Today we are scattered in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand 

and we have difficulty researching our ancestors before 1800 due to these spelling variations on old handwritten documents ...

Today we can easily solve the mysteries of our surname by a Y-DNA surname project, and link family branches globally and possibly prove our links to the migration of the Vikings !

Please join our Y-DNA project ! 


We are also on Facebook - Thackwray - Thackeray - Thackray - The THACK ????  surname Y-DNA project - https://www.facebook.com/groups/435223716950330/