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Author: Thackwell, Paul

Biography:

THACKWELL, Paul (1783-1826: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 24 Feb. 1783 at St. Mary’s, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, the fourth of five children of Paul Thackwell (1744-1815), master watchmaker, and his wife Martha Cooke (1747-1838), who had married in 1776. He was probably educated locally and then entered his father’s business. He also became a freemason at the Vitruvian Lodge in Ross. He married Margery Roberts on 15 Nov. 1812 at Ross. No issue is recorded. He died at Ross on 5 Apr. 1826, aged 43, and was buried at St. Mary’s with his occupation recorded as watchmaker poet. Margery Thackwell survived him for over thirty years and died, aged 76, on 15 Nov. 1856 at Webbe’s Almshouse, Ross. His only volume of poetry, listed here, consists of undistinguished religious verse and odes but also includes topographical poetry (“The Wye”) and fresher pieces (“Press Gang,” “The Country Schoolmaster”). (ancestry.co.uk 1 Aug. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 1 Aug. 2022; familysearch.org 1 Aug. 2022; Hereford Journal 12 Apr. 1826; Man of Ross and General Advertiser 20 Nov. 1856; Pigot’s Directory [1822]; Johnson, item 900) AA

 

Books written (1):

Ross [on Wye]/ London: printed by W. Farror/ Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, [1820]