Capt. Reginald Hartley Thackeray ⁵ ^,23

Born: 23 Aug 1879, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa ²³
Christened: 28 Sep 1879, Cradock Methodist Church, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa ²³
Marriage (1): Irene Maud Burlingham Jun Q 1909 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Died: 18 Jan 1942, Headley, Hampshire, England aged 62 ²³
Buried: Headley, Hampshire, England

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Spouses/Children:

1. Irene Maud Burlingham

Reginald Charles Burlingham Thackeray+

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet General Notes:

During the First World War, Captain Thackwray and his wife and son, Reg, lived at Belmont House, High Street. Headley, Hampshire when he was Staff Officer Musketry, first at Bordon, later for the whole Aldershot Command. Capt Thackwray served in the British South African Police during the Boer War, and was at the relief of Mafeking. After World War II he retired to Wodehouse (in Liphook Road), and ever since then his family has been active in church and village life, the gift of the Pavilion on the playing fields being only one of their many generous acts.

Reginald preferred to spell his surname Thackeray.

bullet Christening Notes:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2003-02/1046498126

Entry # 738

bullet Death Notes:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Reginald+&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=Thackeray&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=iof&cp=11&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=27190541&db=ONSDeath93&indiv=1

Q1 Alton RD, Hampshire.

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/mi/mi0945.html

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. ²³ • From 1914 to 1918 he resided at Belmont House, High St, Headley, Hants in his capacity as a Captain in the British Army.
• His funeral was held on 19 Jan 1942 in Headley Church, Headley, Hampshire. The Times

• Residence. Belmont House, High Street. Headley, Hampshire

[From To the Ar and Back] In his working notebook for 1888, The Rev W.H.Laverty (Rector 1872-1928) recorded, "now being built for us on 1/4d Field, by George and Arthur King, their bricklayer Fred Gauntlett."

The house was for his wife's parents, Mr and Mrs de la Motte, but in the 1891 census it is registered as unoccupied. It was then bought by the War Department for £2,500 on 31st July 1903 from Robert Young, and the first Brigade Major to live there was a Fitzclarence, grandson of William IV. His wife was a Churchill, first cousin to the Duke of Marlborough, and he had a coachman named Morse! He was followed by Major Butler, and Joseph Kemp and his wife were man-servant and maid to the family, living presumably in Belmont Cottage (1906-7). During the First World War, Captain Thackeray and his wife and son, Reg, lived at Belmont when he was Staff Officer Musketry, first at Bordon, later for the whole Aldershot Command. He had come from South Africa, where his uncle, Sir Thomas Scanliss, was Prime Minister of Cape Colony, and the famous eighteenth century hunter, Henry Hartley, was his grandfather. Capt Thackeray served in the British South African Police during the Boer War, and was at the relief of Mafeking. After World War II he retired to Wodehouse (in Liphook Road), and ever since then his family has been active in church and village life, the gift of the Pavilion on the playing fields being only one of their many generous acts. One of the last military occupants of the house was Lt.Col Derek Richardson, who came here in the late sixties and then settled down in Headley on leaving the army. It has been a private house since it was sold to the Alexanders in 1978. One of the four WD (War Department) boundary stones marked on old maps is still standing in the bank to the right of the gate.

• Travel. ²³ • He travelled S.S. Oropesa Pacific Steam Navigation Company on 24 Mar 1925. Port of Embarkation Rio de Janeiro.
Disembarked Liverpool.
Address Headley Hants.
Occupation None.
Age 45.
• He travelled W.I. Cruise S.S. Arcadiam. R.M.S.P. Co. on 6 Mar 1928. From Incoming Passenger Lists:
Southampton to Southampton.
Age 48.
Address Headley, Hampshire.
No Occupation Given.
• He travelled Western Islands Cruise, Duchess of Richmond, Canadia Pacific on 8 Mar 1929.
From Incoming Passenger Lists.
Port of Embarkation Liverpool.
Port of Disembarkation Liverpool.
Address Wodehouse, Headley, Hants.
Age 49.
Ist Class.
Ship known to have visited Monaco.
• He travelled Aquitania -Cunard White Star Line on 15 Nov 1935. From Incoming Passenger Lists.
New York to Southampton.
1st Class.
Address Wodehouse, Headley, Herts.
Age 56.
Occupation - Independent.

• Baptism, 28 Sep 1879, Cradock Methodist Church, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Reginald married Irene Maud Burlingham, daughter of Charles Burlingham and Ellinor Sedgwick Prance, Jun Q 1909 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. (Irene Maud Burlingham was born Jun Q 1884 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England,²³ died on 15 Mar 1942 in Headley, Hampshire, England ²³ and was buried in Headley, Hampshire, England.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&db=FreeBMDMarriage&ti=5538&f6=516&f7=1909&f9=4&f5=6c

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Capt. Reginald Hartley Thackeray 5,23

Capt. Reginald Hartley Thackeray ⁵ ^,23