Edward Thache was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the son of Anglican minister Rev. Thomas Thache and Rachel Nelme Thache of Sapperton, Gloucestershire, England. He most likely left the port of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England circa 1685 with his family: wife Elizabeth, son Edward Thache Jr. and daughter Elizabeth, for Jamaica in the West Indies. While records of Thaches are necessarily sparse in Bristol, a probable nephew of Capt. Thache, Thomas "Thatch", had lived in Bristol by 1712 and had leased a house "a mere block from the city docks" from his cousin Martin Nelme. The 1686 census for Bristol does not show a Thache family, however, and it is presumed that they left for Jamaica by that time. Capt. Thache's first wife Elizabeth died and was buried on January 13, 1699 in Spanish Town at St. Catherine's Anglican Church. Thache remarried on June 11, 1699 to twice-widowed Lucretia Poquet Maverly Ethell. They had issue: Cox Thache, Rachel Thache, and Thomas Thache. Capt. Edward Thache then died and was buried at the same church on November 16, 1706. He did not have a will and his entire estate fell upon his eldest son, per the law of primogeniture. The following December 10, that eldest son Edward Thache Jr., then serving on HMS Windsor, deeded his inheritance to his step-mother Lucretia so that they could administer the family plantation and take care of her young children, including the young daughter of Edward Thache Jr., another Elizabeth, probably born in nearby Kingston. Lucretia never married a fourth time. She kept the Thache family name as matriarch for thirty-seven years until her death in 1743. Barbadian resident Charles Leslie, author of A New Account of Jamaica, published in 1739, had visited Jamaica, presumably in the 1730s, to research his book. Having read A General History of the Pyrates, by Charles Johnson , he was astounded to discover that "Black-beard... was born in Jamaica, of very creditable parents." Leslie also wrote "... Mother is alive in Spanish-Town to this Day , and his Brother is at present Captain of the Train of Artillery." Family Documents available at .
