Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Thackray, Joseph B.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   JOSEPH B. THACKRAY farmer, P.O. Edgewood, was born June 
19, 1814, and is a son of Joshua and Rebecca (Johnson) 
Thackray.  His paternal grandfather was Joshua Thackray who 
was born November 2, 1760, and was a son of James and Esther 
Thackray.  Joshua Thackray, the elder, was twice married; 
first, to Mary, daughter of Stephen and Mary Sands, whom he 
married October 18, 1784.  She was born November 5, 1764, 
and died June 4, 1794.  By this union there were two 
children:  Joshua, born March 29, 1785; and Mary, born July 
1, 1789.  Joshua, the younger, was married February 25, 
1813, to Rebecca, daughter of James and Hannah Johnson, by 
whom he had five children who grew to maturity:  Joseph B., 
Mary (Mrs. Harvey Terry), Hannah (Mrs. William Watson), Jane 
(Mrs. David Flowers), and John J., married Martha, daughter 
of William Suber, of Lower Makefield.  Joseph B. was born 
and reared on the farm he now occupies, and which was 
settled by his grandfather previously to 1790.  In March, 
1845, he married Ann Eliza, daughter of John and Sarah 
(Davis) Terry, of Middletown township, Bucks county.