Epping and London Pluckroses
Origins
This tree starts with Daniel Pluckrose in the Harlow area but I have no information (at the moment) about Daniel's origins. It is possible that the Pluckroses came from the adjacent parish of Gilston, where Pluckroses have lived since at least 1620, and where half a dozen Daniels were baptised over the following 160 years.
Some members of the family moved southward to the Epping and Cheshunt area. Later the move continued into the east end of London (in particular Hackney and Bethnal Green) and a sizeable contingent moved south of the Thames into the Lambeth/Southwark area. John Pluckrose (PL0867) - a grandson of Daniel - was a blacksmith who moved north to Derby in his youth. He married in Derby in 1815 but didn't stay there long and returned south again.
Further generations
I am reasonably confident about the rest of the tree which has been compiled mainly from BMD and census records. There will be omissions, of course - the usual ones being children who were born and died between census dates and are unassignable because there was more than one Pluckrose family in the area at the time.
Other links
Tree 1015 links directly into this Tree. Tree 1015 contains another 66 people.
Points of interest
PL No | Surname | Forenames | Notes |
4435 | ANCKORN | Annie Louisa | C1911: 32, b.Lambeth, married 10 years, 2 children, 1 still living. The missing child could be Frank Pluckrose who was born and died in the same quarter (Q1 1904) in the St Olave RD. Living with her daughter in 1964. |
2835 | ANCKORN | Charlotte | C1911: 24, married 1 year, b. Edmonton, no children. |
4294 | BATES | Ivy Violet | 1945 electoral register: Ivy , Rosetta and Maurice Pluckrose all living at 22 Milsted House, Pembury Road Estate, Hackney. [Is this the right Ivy?]. |
4439 | BETTS | Queenie Edith | C1911: living at 32 Birkbeck Place, W Dulwich, Lambeth, age 5, born Norwood, Lambeth. Parents Charles Betts, a coalman, and Jane Sarah. |
1064 | BORLEY | Edward | Possible birth: Dec 1869, Thetford 4b, 397. Possible death: Dec 1935, Thetford 4b, 380, age 65 (b ca 1870). However, 1911 census says born in West Ham. |
4437 | CROCKER | Redvers Buller | No death record found. |
1526 | CROMBIE | Frederick Tomblin | C1911: 27, b. Newington, single, a porter, living in Bermondsey. Served with the Royal Engineers in France in WW1. |
1043 | DEAN | Mary Ann | No marriage record found. C1861: 46, born Shoreditch, dressmaker. Death record is for Mary, not Mary Ann. |
0870 | EVERETT | Benjamin | Benjamin and Mary had seven children. This is Lesley Murray's branch and also John Hilton's. |
2179 | GOODHALL | Elizabeth Amy | C1901; C1911: born Westminster, married 14 years, 3 children all still living. |
2771 | GRIFFITHS | William | C1901: fruitmongers manager. |
1047 | HOLDEN | Ann | C1851; |
0884 | KING | Louisa | C1841; C1851: a visitor to the household of William and Elenor Callan, Emily King, aged 16 (?her sister, born Epping) also a visitor. Not found in 1861 or 1881 census. |
4462 | LITTLE | Mary Jane | A widow on marrying, maiden name was Cowderoy. C1911: 35, 3 children, 2 still living. Possible birth record: Mary Cowderoy; Q1 1876, Wandsworth, 1d, 638. |
1527 | PAYNE | Florence | C1911: married 5 years, 2 children, both still living. |
1087 | PEMBERTON | Elizabeth Jane | C1881: charwoman; recently widowed she has John and Louisa with her. Alfred and Thomas are in the Central London District School; C1891: wid, charwoman; C1901; C1911: married to Stephen 14 years, one child. |
4502 | PHILPOTTS | Janice L | No children found. |
4495 | PLUCKROSE | Albert Stephen | He travelled from Glasgow to Melbourne on the Empire Brent in 1949 (apparently permanently). He made the return journey on the Orontes in 1952. |
2757 | PLUCKROSE | Alfred | C1881: Both Alfred and his younger brother, Thomas (age 3) are 'inmates' at the Central London District School in Hanwell. This was a large institution which catered for the children of urban London. It is not clear why they were there, perhaps their recently widowed mother couldn't cope with so many youngsters. She still had John (6) and Louisa (2) with her. C1891: errand boy (Alfred T); C1901: A visitor: household comprised: Annie Davis, head, s, 22, ironer; Ada, her sister, s, 20, ironer; Emma, another sister, s, 18. All born in Bermondsey. Was he getting his shirts ironed? C1911: 35, b. Walworth, married 10 years, a laundryman (employer). His wife, Annie, 'assisted in the business'. |
1082 | PLUCKROSE | Alfred | Baptised on the same day as his elder brothers, Benjamin William and John Stephen. C1881; C1891: coffee house assistant (working in his father's coffee house); 1901 census; a fruiterers assistant, living in Limehouse as a boarder, aged 23, probably unmarried, place of birth Lambeth. C1911: now married, still a fruiterer's assistant. |
4469 | PLUCKROSE | Alfred Frederick | He left a Will. Probate was granted to Jack Leslie Pluckrose, company director (Alfred's brother). In 1937 Alfred and Mary were living at 25 Fredora Avenue in Hayes. William and Charlotte Cann were living at No 23 - presumably relatives of Mary. |
1073 | PLUCKROSE | Alice | C1881; C1891: box maker; C1901: 24, lace cutter. No marriage or death found. |
1068 | PLUCKROSE | Alice | This is Helen Mears' grandmother. |
4292 | PLUCKROSE | Allan B | I have assigned him to Benjamin and Ivy Bates but it is possible that he is a child of his older brother, Oscar brother and Maud Bates. A birth certificate is needed. |
2319 | PLUCKROSE | Ann | Ann heads Tree 1015 |
4436 | PLUCKROSE | Annie Ada L | 1963 Electoral register, 55 Tresco Road, Dulwich: Annie A L Crocker, Redvers B Crocker, Peter A Crocker, Annie L Pluckrose (Annie A L's mother). No death record found. |
4295 | PLUCKROSE | Anthony | In 1956 and 1959 he is living at 13 Stainsby Road, Limehouse, together with his parents and married sister, Greta, and her husband Henry Dabbs.(Source: 1956 & 1959 electoral rolls). This confirms that his parents were Oscar Alfred and Maud (Bates). |
2837 | PLUCKROSE | Arthur | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website records that he was the son of Stephen & Charlotte Pluckrose of South Bermondsey. |
0872 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin | C1861: blacksmith living in St Saviour Southwark, born Aston, Derbyshire; not found in later censuses. |
1045 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin | C1861: age 6, born Camberwell. |
4281 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin | Benjamin and Ivy are living at 183 Armagh Road, Bow in 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939 (source: electoral registers). |
1048 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin William | C1851; C1861: gun maker; C1871: white smith; C1881: age 34, b. Epping, smith; C1891: coffee house keeper; |
1080 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin William | C1881; C1891: sailmaker; C1901: tarpaulin maker; C1911: coal sack repairer. |
2008 | PLUCKROSE | Benjamin William | C1901; C1911: age 14, office boy. |
1093 | PLUCKROSE | Betty | This is Dawn Goodwin's mother. |
1085 | PLUCKROSE | Caroline Sophia | Spouse confirmed via free BMD and 1901 census which showed a son, Stephen, aged 5 months. |
4417 | PLUCKROSE | Charles William | There is no evidence that he married. |
4414 | PLUCKROSE | Clara D | The marriage in Kingston upon Thames is supported by the deaths of both parents in the same RD in preceding and following years. |
1512 | PLUCKROSE | Clara Elizabeth Queenie | C1911. National Probate Calendar 1956: PLUCKROSE John Stephen of 248 Dersingham Avenue London E12 died 20 June 1956. Administration London 23 July to Clara Elizabeth Queenie White married woman. Effects £451 16s 7d. |
0864 | PLUCKROSE | Daniel | Nothing definite is know about Daniel's origins. Gilston (and Eastwick) is a suburb of present day Harlow and there is a possible baptism in Gilston: 6 April 1735 Daniel Pluckrose, son of John and Frances. This would make Daniel 28/29 when Daniel Jnr was baptised. No suitable burial found yet. |
0861 | PLUCKROSE | Daniel | He married the widow, Mary Stoten, in 1786. He was a witness at the marriage of Sarah STOTEN in 1796. (LM) C1841: He is in the union workhouse at Theydon Gardon, aged 79, a blacksmith, born in the County (of Essex). |
0863 | PLUCKROSE | Daniel | Daniel was born in Harlow but appears to have moved to Huntingdon and married there in 1811. However, he seems to have returned to Harlow and features in a local trade directory dated 1839 as a blacksmith. It is not known when, or where, his son James was born. The connection of the Huntingdon and Harlow Daniels is based on (1) the occupation of blacksmith; (2) the correct age. |
4441 | PLUCKROSE | David H | There are two possible marriages in the GRO index: (1) To Jean S Bolt in Wandsworth in Q2 1956 and (2) to Gillian P Miller in Q1 1966 in St Marylebone. |
4442 | PLUCKROSE | Edward F | There is a possible marriage to Joan M Bailey in Q3 1957 in St Germans, Cornwall. |
1053 | PLUCKROSE | Eliza Ann | Eliza is a child of Stephen Pluckrose and Sophia Wright. The chronology is: 25 Dec 1854 - Eliza Ann born; 8 June 1855 - Stephen's first wife, Ann Holden, dies; 3 August 1856 Stephen marries Sophia Wright. There is a possible birth in the GRO index: Eliza Ann WRIGHT, Q1 1855, Edmonton 3a, 141. Not found in the 1861 census. |
4268 | PLUCKROSE | Elizabeth | C1911. A possible marriage: John T Matthews = Elizabeth Pluckrose; Q3 1928, Stepney 1c, 550. |
1077 | PLUCKROSE | Elizabeth Ann | C1871; C1881; |
1071 | PLUCKROSE | Elizabeth Mary Ann | C1881; C1901: married, living next door to her parents. A possible School Register entry: Laxon Street School, Southwark; Elizabeth PLUCKROSE, born 25 May 1870, father Harry of 15 Walker Street, date of leaving 19 May 1982. The record of her marriage to Henry Bristow gives her age as 19 and her father's name as Henry. Her death index record lists her as Elizabeth M A Bristow. |
1063 | PLUCKROSE | Emma | C1911: Husband Edward is a gardener. Living at Lodge, Abbey Mills Pumping Station, West Ham (presumably where Edward worked). Married 18 years, 8 children (15-2 months), 6 still living. |
2793 | PLUCKROSE | Emma | C1891. Married in 1899, her brother, Stephen, was a witness. Her husband, Henry, was a costermonger. There is a death record which could be Emma: Emma Pite, Jun 1983, Sleaford (Lincs) 7, 1872, age 102. Born 13 June 1881. |
1060 | PLUCKROSE | Emma Ann | C1861: infant; |
4282 | PLUCKROSE | Eva Dorothy | Known from 1939 electoral register. |
2794 | PLUCKROSE | Florence | She appears (identified as sister, age 11) in the 1901 census in the household of her brother Benjamin (PL1080). She doesn't appear to be in the GRO birth index. However, there is scope for confusion with another Florence, daughter of James Pluckrose and Amy Crouch, also born in 1890, but who died in 1893 aged 3. This Florence (PL1994 in Tree1010) appears with these parents in the 1891 census. |
1511 | PLUCKROSE | Florence Louisa | Possible marriage to Walter Kenneth Ground; Q3 1929; West Ham. |
4270 | PLUCKROSE | Florence M | No marriage or death records found. |
2462 | PLUCKROSE | George Edward | C1901; C1911. |
4464 | PLUCKROSE | Grace Eleanor | No marriage or death record found. |
2181 | PLUCKROSE | Harry Arthur George | In 1901 census. |
1072 | PLUCKROSE | Harry Joseph | C1881; C1891: printer's boy; C1901; C1911. |
1044 | PLUCKROSE | Henry Robert | Harry on birth certificate. C1861: Harry, age 10, born Cheshunt; C1881: wheelsmith; C1891: blacksmith; C1911: Henry, living in Southwark, age 60, blacksmith. Henry on death record. |
1094 | PLUCKROSE | Irene | A possible marriage to James F Barlow, Q3 1949, Pancras 5d, 1027. |
4471 | PLUCKROSE | Jack Leslie | John L when he married. He and his wife Norah Elizabeth went on a cruise to Las Palmas in 1959. He was a tyre distributor and they lived in Carlisle. |
0869 | PLUCKROSE | James | His death has not been found. In 1841 census with Louisa - no children. |
1079 | PLUCKROSE | Jane Eliza | C1881; C1901 |
0867 | PLUCKROSE | John | Found in 1851 census, living with son Stephen in Bengeo, HRT. Not found in 1861 - I can't find an obvious death, either. |
1050 | PLUCKROSE | John | C1861: scholar. He was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital on 3 Nov 1858 (aged 5) suffering from a diseased hip (probably tuberculosis). He stayed for 25 days (see www.smallandspecial.org). His marriage certificate gives his occupation as blacksmith. When his son Alfred married in 1901 he described his deceased father's occupation as 'painter'. His daughter, Louisa, did the same when she married in 1907. |
4426 | PLUCKROSE | John Albert Frederick | C1911. He died at the early age of 32, administration of his estate was granted to his parents, which tends to confirm that he did not marry. |
1091 | PLUCKROSE | John Edward | C1901;1911. |
4413 | PLUCKROSE | John H | There is a possible marriage: John H Pluckrose=Eileen C Knight; Q2 1954; Wandsworth 5d, 1395. |
1088 | PLUCKROSE | John Hambleton | John was in the army 1891-1903 and again in 1914-1918. C1901: 38, coal porter, b Walworth. |
2461 | PLUCKROSE | John Hambleton | John Hamilton Pluckrose on his GRO birth index record, John Hambleton Pluckrose on his baptism record, and John H on his GRO death record.. C1901. |
1074 | PLUCKROSE | John Sheppard | C1891: scholar; C1901: living with parents,19, general labourer,b. St George; C1911: A furniture salesman, born in Bermondsey.The age at death seems to be some way out - a family guess. perhaps? |
1078 | PLUCKROSE | John Stephen | C1871; C1881; C1901; C1911: coffee house keeper. |
2009 | PLUCKROSE | John Stephen | C1901; C1911: age 12, at school. |
4278 | PLUCKROSE | Lily Cecilia | A Lily Pluckrose married Frederick Warman in the Wandsworth RD in Q4 1926. |
1089 | PLUCKROSE | Louisa | C1891; C1901: living with her sister in law, Mary Ann, single, laundress. |
2180 | PLUCKROSE | Louisa Elizabeth | C1901; C1911. Jill Godwin's maternal grandmother. |
0880 | PLUCKROSE | Lydia | Twin of William; they were born on 1 Dec 1833 and both died on 15 January 1834. |
0866 | PLUCKROSE | Mary | The 1851 census says that she was born in Latton ca 1790. However, there were no Pluckrose baptisms in Latton at that time. She was probably baptised in Harlow as were her brothers. Although her baptism is not recorded (1) Daniel and Mary were the only Pluckroses in the area at the time, (2) she appears to have registered her father's death. |
1056 | PLUCKROSE | Mary Ann | C1861; Helen Mears believes she may have gone to Australia. |
1046 | PLUCKROSE | Mary Ann | Sally Sharrock's great grandmother. C1911: married 33 years, 11 children, 9 still living. |
0874 | PLUCKROSE | Mary Anna | A possible death record: Mary A Savage; Q4 1916, Epsom 2a, 54, age 86. |
4266 | PLUCKROSE | Mary Jane | C1911. There is a possible marriage: Mary J Pluckrose=James T Morgan; Q2 1922; Limehouse 1c, 520. |
4272 | PLUCKROSE | Maud F | Arrived in Montreal on the Empress of Canada from Liverpool on 13 Nov 1948. Travelling alone, first class, resident of Cheltenham, company director, age 27. |
4429 | PLUCKROSE | Maud V F | She was living with her parents at 19 Pearman Street, Vauxhall, in 1963 (source: Electoral register). |
4279 | PLUCKROSE | Oscar Alfred | Unusually he seems to have two GRO death records: (1) As Oscar Alfred Pluckrose in the Swale RD in Kent and (2) as Alfred Oscar in the Shepway RD, also in Kent. All other details are identical, including the volume and page numbers. He seems to have dropped the Oscar in his name early in life, or reversed the order of his names - probably in response to anti-German feeling ca 1914-18. |
1524 | PLUCKROSE | Rosina | C1901; C1911: living with father and stepmother, 21, single, fur skin dyer. |
1058 | PLUCKROSE | Sarah Ann | C1861; |
4443 | PLUCKROSE | Sidney D | There is a possible marriage to Carol L Gregory in Q3 1961 in Christchurch, Hants, |
0876 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen | C1851; C1861: coach smith;C1901: pauper inmate West Ham Union workhouse (retired smith). |
1049 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen | No birth record found in the GRO index. C1851;C1861: scholar; C1901: coachsmith;. GRO index shows Stephen Pluckrose and Elizabeth Jane Pluckrose marrying in St Olaves RD in Q2 1896 (1d, 512). Is this Elizabeth Jane Pemberton, the widow of John Pluck, Stephen's younger brother)? Her age (in the 1901 census) fits. If this is so, the marriage was illegal since it fell within the 'prohibited degrees'. It wasn't until 1907 that marriage to a deceased brother's spouse was allowed. Nevertheless, I believe that such marriages were not uncommon. |
1081 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen | C1881; C1891: coffee house assistant (in his father's coffee house); C1911: labourer (shipyard). |
1086 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen | C1901: age 23, single, b. Walworth, coachsmith; C1911, married, 33, born Walworth, a blacksmith for a manure merchant. |
4252 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen | C1911: age 8, born Bermondsey. A possible marriage to Violet M A Cowlard in Q3 1923 in the Camberwell RD. |
2007 | PLUCKROSE | Stephen Benjamin | C1901; C1911: age 17, coal sack repairer (like his father). |
1075 | PLUCKROSE | Susan Hannah | C1891: scholar; |
2758 | PLUCKROSE | Thomas | C1881: see note for brother Alfred; C1891; C1901: not found; C1911: pianoforte carman, 33. His marriage certificate gives his occupation as carman, his father, John Pluckrose (deceased) was a smith. Louisa Pluckrose (probably his younger sister) was a witness. |
4468 | PLUCKROSE | Thomas William | C1911. His surname is indexed as 'PUCKROSE' in the GRO index. |
4438 | PLUCKROSE | Walter Charles | C1911. |
0881 | PLUCKROSE | William | Twin of Lydia; they were born on 1 Dec 1833 and both died on 15 January 1834. |
4494 | PLUCKROSE | William A | No marriage or death records found. |
2770 | PLUCKROSE | William John | C1901; aged 7, living with his sister, Eliza and her husband, William Griffiths. C1911: There is a William Pluckrose, age 17, single, born Holborn, who works as a kitchen porter in a restaurant, living at the St Giles Christian Mission Boys Home in Kingsway, London WC. |
2460 | PRIOR | Mary Ann E | 1901: 'widow' - which is an error; C1911: living with her husband who is no longer in the army. Age 35, born Westminster, married 15 years, 3 children, 2 still living. |
1090 | SCHULTZ | Clara Elizabeth | C1901; C1911: born Mile End, married 13 years, 4 childre, 3 still living. |
1070 | SHEPPARD | Elizabeth Matilda | C1881: three children; C1891; C 1911: age 62, born Newington, married 41 years, nine children, 4 living. |
4460 | SLADEN | Emma Rebecca | C1911: married 7 years, 3 children, all still living. |
4503 | SPOTTISWOOD | Norah Elizabeth | No children. |
0862 | STOTEN | Mary | No death record found. |
4277 | STROMBERG | Signe Charlotte | C1911: age 38, born Sweden, married 10 years, 5 children, 4 living. |
2006 | WEIGHT | Mary Ann | C1901: living in Limehouse, three sons and mother in law; C1911: seven children, all living. |
0868 | WHITE | Lydia | There is a possible baptism in Yelling, Hunts, on 30 Sep 1781, parents: Richard & Mary. |
4411 | WHITE | William A E | A possible birth: William Alfred E, Q3 1898, West Ham 4a, 109 |
1076 | WIGGINS | Elizabeth Lydia | C1871: age 22, born St George; C1881: age 32, born Lambeth; C1891: her widowed mother, Jane Wiggins, is living with them; C1901: living in Limehouse with son, Benjamin, and his family; C1911: 65, wid, 15 children 7 still alive, living in Mile End Old Town with 17 year old son William John. There are six more children to be found and added to this family. |
1052 | WRIGHT | Sophia | C1861; |
0865 | [PLUCKROSE] | Mary | Wife of top-of-tree Daniel. No marriage found. No death found. |
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Lesley Murray for providing some of the information used in the compilation of this tree.