UCK   Family History

The surname DUCK is not common though nor could it be described as rare in the UK.   This page is about the family and descendants of John Duck (or Dook) from Scotland.   If you don't find what you are looking for, please re-visit, because this site will be regularly updated.   Any details that you can add, especially corrections will be gratefully received.   GeoffStone@Wedmore.org.uk

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John Dook

DUCK Family History       Descendants of John DUCK and Elspeth JACK			350
Generation         13	12	11
		|- John DOOK or DUCK	>351
		| [ Scottish accent ?! ]
		| b   c1655
		| res Glasgow until c1685
		| occ Merchant of Kinghorn, Fife
		| d
		| m   not found in Scots Records
		|       [ LDS Scottish OPR? ]
		| = Elspeth JACK
		Walter JACK was witness at some of their
		children's baptisms - her father or brother?
<350                   Descendants of John DUCK and Elspeth JACK       m   c1680?			351
Generation         10	9	8
	|- Mary DUCK
	| b 4 Apr 1709 Wapping
	|   Queen's Head Alley,
	|   Wapping
	|
|- John DUCK	|- John DUCK	|- John DUCK	>352
| b	| b 3 Jun 1712 Wapping	| b 20 Sep 1755 Bromley By Bow, Middx
| occ Mariner	|     Meeting House Alley,	| occ Mercer of Burford
| d	| Citizen & Dyer of London	| Trained in Edinburgh to be an Apothecary
| m 27 Aug 1706	| res Bromley By Bow, Middx.	| Doctor later
| = Mary BEAZLEY	| d 21 Jun 1772 Burford, Oxon	| d 6 Jul 1800 Burford
| b by 1682	| PCC will 13 Nov 1766	| bu 10th New St. P&J, Bristol
|   Quaker	|   proved 24 Apr 1773	| m 6 May 1777 Friars Mtg. Bristol
| d 1 Feb 1722/3	| m 25 May1751 Ratcliff Meetg.	| = Betsy NIXON
|   Wapping Old Stairs	| = Catherine TOLSON	| b 13 Nov 1754
|   father William BAZELEE	widow of Sam.Milbourne	| bp 27 Jul 1755 St James, Bristol
|   Block & Tackle maker, Wapping	b 21 Nov ? 1716 London	| d 23 Mar 1844 19 Pritchard Street, Bristol
|   mother Mary	d 13 Feb 1782 Burford, Oxon	| aged 90
|	m1 15 Feb 1735? St.Botolph	|   < 366 NIXON Family
|	[1734/5 or 5/6?] Aldersgate	|
|	=1 Samuel MILBOURNE	|
|	Watchmaker of Holborn	|- no other surviving children mentioned
|	he died when?	| in father's will 1766
|
|  [ Probably eldest sister of Mary	]
|  [ Sarah JOHNSON great aunt	]
|  [ to John DUCK [b1755] left	]
|  [ him £50 or £150 through his	]
|  [ father's will. She also witnessed	]
|  [ birth records of Mary 1709,	]
|  [ John 1712 and John 1755.	]
|
|
|- Elizabeth DOOK
| bp 30 May 1683 Glasgow
|
|	There is a James Duck of Wapping:-
|	|- John DUCK
|	| b May 1709
|	| d 28 Nov 1709,   bur. Wapping Old Stairs
|	|
|- James DOOK	|- Robert DUCK
| bp 5 Dec 1686 Kinghorn, Fife	| b Aug 1710 d 21 Sep 1710
| m	| bur. Wapping Old Stairs
| =	|
|   [ This link to children is only a	|- ? Sarah DUCK ?
|   guess or possibility - details Ratcliff	| d 7 Feb 1729/30 Dropsy age 14
| & Barking Monthly Meeting ]	| of Stepney, bur. Schoolhouse Lane
|	|
|	|- Edy DUCK
|	| b Aug 1719, d 15 Apr 1720, 8mo
|
|- Archbald DOOK
| bp 27 Jan 1689 Kinghorn, Fife
|
|- Alexander DOOK
bp 6 Apr 1693 Kinghorn, Fife
<351             Descendants of John DUCK and Betsy NIXON     m 6 May 1777 Friars Mtg. Bristol			352
Generation         7	6	5
	|- Robert CROSS
births in Friends' Registers	| b 15 Jan 1804 St. John, Exeter
	| d 26 Mar 1808 Exeter
	|
	|- Henry CROSS
	| b 29 Oct 1805 St. John, Exeter
	| m
	| = Elizaneth RAINES
	| Governess to Nehemiah Duck's family
	|
	|	|- Mary Agnes COX
	|- Catherine CROSS	| m
	| b 23 Feb 1808 Trinity, Exeter	| = Richard LUKE
	| m1	|
	| =1 - - COX	|- Catherine Louisa COX
	|	| m
	|	| = Charles LUKE
	|
	| m2
	| = George LUKE	|- Bertha LUKE
	|     of Fowey	|
	|
	|- Robert CROSS
|- Catherine DUCK	| b 4 Oct 1809 St.Sidwell, Exeter
| b 29 May 1778 Burford [or 19?]	| occ Grocer of Fore St., Exeter
| m 1 c1803 Exeter	| d 4 May 1835
| =1 Henry CROSS	|
| Tobacconist, Tea Dealer	|- Mary CROSS
| & Banker of Exeter	| b 3 Aug 1811 St.Sidwell, Exeter
| d 4 May 1825	| d young ?
| m2   Exeter	|
| =2 James PENNELL	|	|- Cornelia CROSS
| occ Journeyman !! [ of what? ]	|	|
|	|- James Nixon CROSS	|- Gertrude CROSS
|	| b 9 May 1813 St.Sidwell, Exeter	| m
|	|	| = - CRAWLEY
|	| m	|
|	| = Mary	|- Robert CROSS
|	|	| m
|	|	| =
|	|
|	|- William Nehemiah CROSS
|	| b 2 Jun 1815 St.David's, Exeter
|	| d 2 Sep 1833 St.Sidwell, Exeter
|	|
|	|- Elizabeth Henrietta CROSS	|
|	| b 11 Aug 1817 Southernhay,	|
|	|     St. David's, Exeter	|
|	| m	|
|	| = Frederick CARTER	|
|	|
|	|- Hannah Amelia CROSS
|	| b 9 Jun 1819 Southernhay, St.David's
|	| d
|
|
|	|- Elizabeth Pole DUCK	[Some gaps on this section need filling]
|	| b 26 Jul 1817 Dighton St. St.James, Bristol
|	| d 25 Feb1821 Stokes Croft
|	| bur 9 Mar 1821 Friars, Bristol
|	|	|- Thomas Frederick WEDMORE	>326
|	|	|   [later Sir Frederick Wedmore]
|	|	| b 9 Jul 1844
|	|	| occ Art Critic & Author
|	|	| d 25 Feb 1921 Sevenoaks
|	|	| m
|	|	| = Martha CLAPHAM
|	|	| b 1 Jun 1847
|	|	| d 19 Feb 1923 Falmouth
|	|	|
|	|   AB	|- Edmund Tolson WEDMORE	> 40
|	|	| b 16 Dec 1847
|	|	| d 25 Aug 1920
|	|	| occ Wholesale Grocer, in Bristol
|	|	| m 17 Sep 1872
|	|	| = Anne Grace JOSEPH
|	|	| b 24 Dec 1847
|	|	| d 19 Feb 1915
|	|	|
|	|	|- Charles Ernest WEDMORE
|	|	| b 2 Dec 1850
|	|	| occ
|	|	| d 13 Mar 1901
|	|	| m 6 Dec 1899
|	|- Rachel Pole DUCK	| = Caroline KERSEY
|	| b 6 Oct 1818 Stokes Croft, Bristol	| b
|	| d 7 Jul 1886 Druid Stoke	|
|	|     Stoke Bishop, Westbury	|- Rachel Elizabeth WEDMORE	>327
|	| m 20 May 1840 Portishead	| b 19 Jul 1852 d 1945
|	| = Thomas WEDMORE JP	| = Richard Hy. BARRETT
|	| b 28 Aug 1808 Portishead	| b
|	|   Wholesale Sugar and Tea	| occ
|	|         Merchant	|
|	| d 5 Feb 1897 Clifton	|- Mary Catherine WEDMORE
|	|	| b 18 Feb 1854, d 23 June 1895
|	|	|
|	|	|- Cecil WEDMORE	>328
|	|	| b 3 Aug 1855
|	|	| occ
|	|	| d 19 Feb 1929
|	|	| m 21 Aug 1901
|	|	| = Kate EDWARDS
|	|	| b 5 Jan 1870
|	|	| d Feb 1955
|- Nehemiah DUCK	|	|
| b 3 Jan 1782 Burford	|	|- Marian Isabelle WEDMORE
| occ Surgeon, Bristol	|	| b18 Mar1857
| lived at Stokes Croft c1818-1828	|	| d 25 Nov1896
| had private asylum, Ridgway Hse.	|	|
|   View of Ridgeway House	|	|- Constance WEDMORE
| d 14 Mar 1842	|	| b 1 Oct 1858 d 1937
|   Ridgway House, Stapleton	|	|
| m 10 Sep 1816	|	|- Frank Hamilton WEDMORE	>329
|   Friars Meeting, Bristol	|	b 22 Jul 1862
| = Rachel POLE	|	occ
| b 14 Feb 1791 City of London	|	d 19 Mar 1940
| d 4 Jul 1851 Apsley Villas	|	= Ella Green
|   Kingsdown, Bristol	|	b
|	|
|	|
|	|- Amelia DUCK
|	| b 25 Mar 1820 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| d 1 Mar 1821 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| bu Friars
|	|
|	|- John Nehemiah DUCK
|	| b 13 Jun 1821 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	|   unmarried - poor health
|	| d 26 Sep 1864 Near Bristol
|	|
|	|- Elizabeth Amelia DUCK
|	| b 10 Feb 1823 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| Unm. Great correspondent of the family
|	|   had a rather deformed foot
|	| d 13 May 1902
|	|
|	|- Catherine Tolson DUCK
|	| b 26 Apr 1824 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| d 22 Apr 1887 Ringwood, Hants
|	|
|	|- Amelia DUCK
|	| b 3 Aug 1826 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| d 16Aug 1826 Stokes Croft, Bristol
|	| bur 21 Aug 1826 Friars, Bristol
|	|
|	|- Edmund Barrett DUCK
|	| b 7 Oct 1827
|	| occ
|	| d 23 Feb 1832 Ridgway House
|	| bur 29 Feb 1832 Friars, Bristol
|	|
|	|- infant
|	| b&d 6 Mar 1829 Stapleton, Glos.
|	| bur 9 Mar 1829 Friars, Bristol
|	|
|	|	|- Maria Elizabeth [Lizzie] DUCK
|	|	| b 11 Sep 1856, England
|	|	|
|	|	|- Alice Catherine DUCK
|	|- George Nixon DUCK	| b 18 Feb 1859 England
|	| b 9 Feb 1831 Ridgway House	|
|	|       Stapleton, Glos.	|- Amy Rachel Agnes DUCK
|	| occ Shipbuilder Bristol and	| b 15 Mar 1860 Edinburgh
|	|       Stockton on Tees	|
|	| c81 Fairlieburne, Largs, Ayr	|- Charlotte Amelia Tolson [Poppy] DUCK
|	|       JP, Underwriter At Lloyds	| b 19 Jan 1864 Edinburgh
|	| d 11 Feb 1919 Wallington, Surrey	| in Bilton cum Harrogate in 1881 census
|	|	|
|	| m 6[26?] Dec 1854 Edinburgh	|- Ada Louisa Nixon DUCK
|	| = Maria NICHOLSON	| b 15 Feb 1866 Edinburgh
|	b 30 Jul 1830	|
|	d 1903	|- Emily Constance Mary DUCK
|	father William NICHOLSON	| b 19 Apr 1869 Edinburgh
|	R.S.A. Artist of Edinburgh	|
|		|- George Arthur Nixon DUCK	|-?
|		(sequence of names uncertain)
|		b 1 May 1871 Stockton on Tees? England
|		occ
|		d
|		nothing further known
|- Amelia DUCK
| b 6 Dec 1785 West Kirk, Edinburgh
| d 18 Jan 1803 New St. Bristol
|
|
|- John DUCK
| b 14 Jul 1787 Castle Street,
|         Castle Precincts, Bristol
|   Went to Philadelphia,
|   wrote 22 Jun 1803 then not heard of again.
|
|		|- James DUCK
|		| b 1843 England
|	|- James Nixon DUCK	| occ
|	| b 28 Apr 1822 Fullands House	| d
|	|         Wilton Parish, Taunton	|
|	| went to Plympton House near	|- Mary DUCK
|	| Plymouth, Devon as pupil to	| b
|	| young surgeon Mr LANGWORTHY	| d
|	| later went to New York U.S.A in	|
|	| 1844 on the Cosmos from Bristol	|- John Mullett DUCK	>355
|	| m	| b
|	| = Caroline LANGWORTHY	| occ
|	|   [ or Catherine? or Mary? ]	| d
|	|   of Devon	| m
|	|	| = Euphemia BROWN
|	|	| b
|	|	|
|	|	|- Catherine DUCK
|	|	b
|	|
|	|	went to USA
|	|	|- Mary FOWLER
|	|- Amelia Sophia DUCK	|   [ sequence uncertain ]
|	| b 2 Jun 1824 Fullands House	| d
|	| m	|
|	| = Francis FOWLER	|- Sophie FOWLER	>356
|	| b 18 Apr 1811	| b
|	|   Grandson of Thomas POLE MD	| d
|	|   Father Francis Martin FOWLER	| m
|	|   Mother Mary Ann POLE was	| = James Mortimer ROBINSON
|	|   daughter of Thomas POLE MD	| b
|	|   and younger sister of Rachel POLE	| occ
|- James DUCK	|   who married Nehemiah DUCK.	| d
| b 9 Jul 1792 Castle Street, Bristol	|	|
| Surgeon and Dr of Medicine	|	|- Tolson FOWLER
| of W. Fullands, Wilton, Taunton	|	b
| d	|	occ
| m1 25 Apr 1821 Wellington	|	d
| =1 Sophia MULLETT	|
| d 23 Jun 1830 Fullands aged 29	|	|- Mary ELLICOTT
| bu 30 Jun 1830 Wellington	|- Sarah Elizabeth DUCK	| d
|	| b 15 Jul 1826 Fullands House	|
|	|   went to America - when?	|- Sarah Amelia ELLICOTT
|	| m	| b c1850 [Sallie]
|	|   [known as Sally Duck Ellicott]	|   Continued her mother's
|	| = Samuel ELLICOTT	|   correspondence with Wedmores
|	|	|   Still living in 1936 aged 86 at
|	|	|   Sandy Spring, Maryland
|	|	| m
|	|	| = Edward TAYLOR
|	|
|	|- John Tolson DUCK
|	| b 6 Nov 1827 Fullands House
|	| d 29 Dec 1827 Fullands House
|	| bu 1 Jan 1827 Wellington, Som
|	|
|	|
|	|	|- Eleanor Sophia Frances FEATHERSTONE
|	|- Sophia Louisa DUCK	|   Wrote down family details
|	| b 20 Jun 1829 Fullands House	| d 1936
|	|   went to America - when ?	|
|	|	|- Mary Isabelle FEATHERSTONE
|	| m	|
|	| = Henry Francis FEATHERSTONE	|- Sarah Amelia Duck FEATHERSTONE
|	of Cork, Ireland	|   unmarried
|		|
|		|- Henry James
|		| d 1932
|
| m2   c1835
| =2 Elizabeth SERGEANT	|- ?
governess to NICHOLSONS
see George Nixon Duck's wife
<352                   Descendants of John Mullett DUCK and E. BROWN   m			355
Generation         4	3	2
|- son }		6 children
|	|- daughter	8 grandchildren
|-son }		3 great grandchildren
|	|- daughter
|	|
|	|- son
|- Florence Mary DUCK	|
| m	|- son
| = Lowndes A. SMITH	|
|   Lawyer	|- Milton Shameway SMITH
|	|   Professor
|	| m
|	| = Muriel
|- daughter
<352                   Descendants of James Mortimer ROBINSON and Sophie FOWLER   m			356
Generation         4	3	2
[ sequence unsure ]	|- Francis DELIYEAR ?
|- Elizabeth ROBINSON	|
| m	|- Pole DELIYEAR ?
| = Francis DELIYEAR ?	|
|	|- Hilles ? DELIYEAR ?
|
| = Frank D. LIZZEN	|- Elizabeth LIZZEN
|
|- James Hilles ROBINSON
|
|	|-
|	|
|- Francis Pole ROBINSON	|- Hubert Bentley ROBINSON
| m	|
| = Mary C. BENTLEY	|-
|	|
|	|-
|
|- Phillip Winston ROBINSON

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