Notes A birth registration was found for Abel Thackray; Year of Registration: 1897; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Wakefield; County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire; Volume: 9c; Page: 55.
In 1901, Abel Thackray, 3 years of age, was residing as a boarder with Frank Bass, 26, a rural postman, and his wife, Louisa M. Bass, 28, at Silver Street, in Stansted, Essex, England.
In 1910, Abel Thackray, 12, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a group of 77 children en route to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
In 1911, Able Thackery, 13, is shown as a servant / labourer for John Book and family in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. His date of birth was shown as February 1897, and his immigration year as 1910.
On April 17, 1920, a marriage was registered in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, between Abel Thackeray, 23, hardware clerk, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, son of Walter Thackeray; and Clara Elizabeth Cutting, 18, telephone operator, born in Ontario, Canada, daughter of Walter Cutting and Ethel Caughill.