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- This woman, the wife of Richard Thacker of Heage, and mother of Christopher, Thomas, Margery, Oliver, Alice and Robert Thacker remains of unknown name. The suggestion her name could be Eleanor is a mistake, based on an incorrect transcription of Derby Corporation accounts of 1540 in a D.A.J. article in 1935. The transcriber misread Olyuer (Oliver) as Elyner (Eleanor). The median v the u and the n are usually identical in medieval and Tudor writing, and the initial capital E and capital O are almost identical is much contemporary handwriting. At the time of publication (1935), the original documents were thought to have been lost in floods. However they have been rediscovered more recently, and reading them, comparison of this first letter of the name with other letters (the names Edward and Edmund for example) shows the name is certainly Oliver, not Eleanor. Oliver in 1540 would be a son of Richard Thacker, and is known to history as one who served as bailiff for Derby three times.
Thus "Eleanor Thacker" is a mistake. Currently, the name of Richard's wife remains undiscovered.
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