Wendens Ambo and Cambridge Plucks

Origins

This tree starts with Stephen Pluck (PL 406) who was baptised in Arkesden in 1764 (see Tree 4). He was the youngest of the five surviving children of William Pluck of Littlebury and his second wife, Elizabeth Wootten. Stephen married twice: his first wife, Mary Linsdell, had five children and his second wife, Sarah Eldret, one. He moved from Arkesden to Wensden Ambo before marrying, but since they are neighbouring villages he didn't move far.

Points of interest

1. This tree is complicated slightly by a cousin-marriage. Henry Pluck (PL494) married his first cousin, Mary Pluck (PL505) in West Ham in 1852. Their family can be found in Tree 9.
2. There is another unusual relationship of a different kind. The first wife of Henry Pluck (PL518) died in Cambridge in 1890. A little over a year later his daughter Emma married James Freestone. Another year passes and James's mother marries Emma's father.
3. Robert Pluck (PL523) married Margaret Holland in 1880 and they had four children, the eldest being the patriotically named Nelson. Margaret had two children by a previous marriage.

Detailed Notes

PL No	Surname	Forenames	Notes
0517	BARKER	Susan	Found in 1851 and 1861 censuses.
3401	BROWN	Percy	There are a lot of Pecy Browns to choose from but it is probably the one born in the Hitchin RD in Q1 1887.
2297	COWLING	Alice	C1881
1605	FREESTONE	James	His mother was his stepfather's second wife.
2300	FROST	Ellen	C1901.
2397	HOLLAND	Edith	C1881.
0563	HOLLAND	Margaret	The 1881 census suggests that Margaret has two children by a previous marriage: Edith Holland, born c. 1878 and William C Holland, born c 1880. Margaret may have been a widow when she married Robert - there is only one possible death of a husband in the locality (Charles Holland d. Q3 1876, Saffron Walden 4a, 252, aged 47) or Edith could be the result of a less formal liaison. GRO certificates should provide the evidence. If Margaret was married to Charles then William could not be his son. He was probably Robert's son and he is almost certainly the William who is recorded as William Pluck in the 1901 census. In 1881 the family are living next door to a Holland family. C1901.
2398	HOLLAND	William Charles	C1881: as William Holland, step-son of Robert Pluck. He is almost certainly Robert's son (see more extensive note under his mother's record). C1901 (as William Pluck).
0510	MASON	Sarah	In 1851 census. She probably died in 1850 or 1855 (Q3 1850, SW 12, 139 or Q4 1855, SW 4a, 216).
1583	PLUCK	Alice Elizabeth	Found in 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses. 2 children in 1901 census.
2302	PLUCK	Alice Lucy	C1901.
0495	PLUCK	Anne	The 1861 census of Wendens has four children: Edward (19), Stanley (13), Alfred (10) and Henry (7). John Pluck, father, wid, 78, former ag lab, b. Arkesden is also present at this address.
1590	PLUCK	Daphne A	The birth is in the indexes twice; Q4 1932 and Q1 1933.
2301	PLUCK	Edith Ellen	C1891, C1901.
1500	PLUCK	Emma Elizabeth	Found in 1871, 1891 and 1901 censuses.
0566	PLUCK	Frederick	n 1901 census : "ordinary farm labourer", aged 13.
0515	PLUCK	George	C1881.
0518	PLUCK	Henry	Found in 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses.
1499	PLUCK	Henry William	Found in 1871, 1891 and 1901 (in Kettering) censuses. No children in 1901.
0519	PLUCK	James	Found in 1851, 1861, 1881 and 1901 censuses.
0507	PLUCK	Jane	When Ann died in 1894, aged 68, and unmarried, the vicar noted that she had lived for a long time at Woodford Green. She was found there in the 1881 census at the Post Office, Woodford Green. She was a visitor in the household of Elizabeth Haye, postmistress, unmarried, aged 41, born in Woodford, Essex. Also present were Robert Haye, nephew, unmarried, aged 25, telegraph clerk, born in Wenden.
0485	PLUCK	John	Present in the 1861 census of Wendens, living with his daughter, Ann, and her family.
0492	PLUCK	John	C1881.
0511	PLUCK	John	C1881.
0486	PLUCK	Joseph	Found in 1851 census of SW.
0564	PLUCK	Joseph	C1901
0571	PLUCK	Nelson	C1901 (with his grandmother, Eliza).
1497	PLUCK	Philip Stanley	Found in 1851, 1861, 1881 and 1891 censuses.
0523	PLUCK	Robert	C1881
0513	PLUCK	Sarah	C1881.
0493	PLUCK	William	Found in 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses. In 1871 the widowed William is living alone at 1 Russell Place.
2299	PLUCK	William Cowling	C1871, C1881, C1901.
2303	PLUCK	William John	C1901.