Family
In 1859, he married Eliza Amelia Gregory (1824–1907). They had two children, Edward George Duckworth Thwaites who was born on 20 March 1861, but died in the August of the same year and a daughter, Elma Amy (born 30 July 1864), who married Robert Yerburgh, M.P. for Chester and inherited the Thwaites Brewery business on the death of her father.
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