Marylebone and Tonbridge Plucks
Origins
This tree starts with Thomas Pluck who was baptised in Saffron Walden in 1796. Some time later the who family moved to Kent. The Kent branch was founded by Thomas's elder brother, William and his wife, Sarah Ann Wilmott. Thomas married Elizabeth Savery in Sheerness, where their first child (also Thomas) was born, but soon after they moved to Tonbridge where Thomas made a living as a plumber and glazier.
Thomas's grandson, Charles Pluck, who was born in 1844, emigrated to New Zealand with his family on 18 April 1874. This branch of the Plucks can be found in Tree14.
Points of interest
- The marriage of Thomas to Elizabeth Savery has not yet been found but Lesley Collins has found a record of the Banns of Marriage in the Eastchurch register (27 November, 4 December, 11 December 1814) and it is reasonable to assume that the marriage took place soon after. This is the vital missing link that has allowed the Marylebone and New Zealand branches to be joined to the main tree.
- The VRI is confusing about William (PL1543) the youngest child of Thomas and Elizabeth. It shows William as born on 24 June 1818 and christened on 12 August 1833. This is not a baptism at the age of 15, as one might suspect, since the 1851 census shows William as being born around 1833. This is either a clerical error, or another William was born earlier who subsequently died.
- William married Ann Wells in 1858. They had six children in six years, the last one being born some months after the death of William. Their three children do not appear with their parents in the 1861 census. By the time of the 1871 census the widowed Ann, and four of her children, is back with her parents. Her father, the widowed William Wells is described as a farmer of 130 acres employing six labourers and six boys. The eleven year old Kate is at the George Inn with her uncle John Wells, his wife, Sarah and a nine-month old daughter. Nine year old Mary Elizabeth is with her uncle, John Pluck (PL 1546), her aunt and her grandfather, Thomas Pluck (PL71).
PL No |
Surname |
Forenames |
Notes |
| 2577 | ABELL | John Thomas | C1901: beer house keeper (own account) in Godalming, Surrey; |
| 3091 | BARNEY | Edwin | C1871: a bricklayer. |
| 1507 | BLATCH | Agnes Jane | C1871; C1881; C1891 widow. Not found in later censuses; no remarrriage found. |
| 3087 | BUNN | Samuel | C1881: a bricklayer, born in Norfolk. |
| 2578 | CHANDLER | Ann Elizabeth | C1871; C1881 living in Chelsea (wid 38, laundress) in household of Sarah Saunders (wid, 47, mangler) with Ann Chandler (wid, 57, laundress). Ann Chandler could be Ann's mother? C1901 living in Kensington with her son, Albert. |
| 2583 | EARLE | May Eleanor | Her GRO death record gives date of birth as 9 May 1894. I haven't found a birth record so perhaps she was a widow when she married John? |
| 2579 | PLUCK | Albert | Albert's father is unknown (William died in 1887). C1901 living in Kensington with his mother (19, unmarried, a van guard). |
| 1505 | PLUCK | Alfred | C1861; C1871: living with his wid. father; C1881: he is living with his married sister, Ellen Bunn, and her family. He is unmarried and works as a painter; C1891: now a boarder in the household of John Smith, a bricklayer. He is still unmarried and working as a painter. He died in 1895, aged 40. |
| 1562 | PLUCK | Amy Clara | There is a possible marriage: Q1 1934 Amy C Pluck to William E Day, Southwark 1d 80. |
| 2573 | PLUCK | Ann Elizabeth | C1851; C1861; C1871 |
| 1544 | PLUCK | Charles | C1851; C1861 |
| 0693 | PLUCK | Charles | C1851; C1861: a plumber. He married Caroline Mary Ann PRATT in London in 1870 and emigrated to New Zealand four years later. See Tree 14 (the New Zealand branch) for more information. |
| 2576 | PLUCK | Charles Richard | C1871; |
| 2582 | PLUCK | Charles William | C1881; C1891. It is almost certain that he is the Charles William who married Mary Raines in 1897. His age is correct but his father is recorded as William Pluck (deceased), painter - not Henry. There are, however, no other Charles William Plucks who fit the bill. I have not been able to find either him, or Mary in the 1901 census. I have found 4 children of this marriage between 1912 and 1920; there will be others in the period between the marriage in 1897 and September 1911 when the GRO began recording the mother's maiden name in the index. |
| 1553 | PLUCK | Clara Jane | C1871: living with her maternal grandparents; C1901: housekeeper at the Pigeons Hotel in Stratford (West Ham), unmarried. |
| 2572 | PLUCK | Eliza Jane | C1851; C1861 |
| 2575 | PLUCK | Eliza Jane | C1871; C1901 unmarried, working as a parlour maid in Chelsea |
| 1506 | PLUCK | Elizabeth | C1861; C1871: not found. |
| 1504 | PLUCK | Ellen | C1861; C1881: married to Samuel Bunn with 3 daughters and a son. Her brother, Alfred, a painter and unmarried, is living with them as a boarder. His surname is recorded as Phick. |
| 1510 | PLUCK | Ernest James P | C1881; C1891; C1901 not found. |
| 1508 | PLUCK | Florence Annie | C1871; C1881, not found in 1891. C1901 married to a beer house keeper, living in Godalming, 3 children (William, 5; Dorothy, 3; Winifred, 1). |
| 2581 | PLUCK | Frederick John | C1881; C1891; C1901: not found. No marriage found. |
| 1503 | PLUCK | George | C1851; C1861; not found after this date. |
| 1502 | PLUCK | Harriet | C1851; C1861; not found after 1861. |
| 2571 | PLUCK | Henry | C1851; C1861 |
| 1546 | PLUCK | John | C1851: plumber and glazier; C1861: a plumber; C1871: a plumber. |
| 1551 | PLUCK | Kate | C1861: not found (and not with her parents); C1871: age 9, at the George Inn, Tonbridge with her uncle, John Wells, and his family; C1881: still with her uncle John, but moved to Walton on Thames (a riverside pub?). Not found subsequently. |
| 1559 | PLUCK | Lilly Gertrude | C1901; nothing further found. |
| 1509 | PLUCK | Louisa Agnes | C1881; C1891 there is a Susannah living with Agnes (mother) and Ernest who matches the age; C1901: not found. |
| 1542 | PLUCK | Mary | C1851; C1861; living with her parents, unmarried, a laundress. C1871: not found. |
| 2574 | PLUCK | Mary | C1861; C1871: now married with a daughter Ann E aged 1. |
| 1552 | PLUCK | Mary Elizabeth | C1871: aged 9, with her uncle John; C1891: in East Grinstead, a domestic servant in the household of Thomas James, fruit salesman and farmer; C1901: working as a cook in Lee (Lewisham), single, aged 35 (slight underestimate). There is a possible marriage in Q1 1904 St Giles 1b 702 to Charles Thomas BRIDLE. The 1901 census has, living in Betterton Street, St Giles in the Fields: Charles T Bridle, aged 55, painter, and his wife Angelina, aged 54, both born in Dorset. Angelina died in Q3 1903, St Giles 1b 295, aged 60. |
| 1550 | PLUCK | Rowena Louisa | C1871: living with her maternal grandparents; C1881: married with one year old daughter, Emily M. Mother and sister, Sarah Ann, living with them. Another sister, Clara, is also living in Brighton, working as a servant. |
| 1547 | PLUCK | Sarah | C1841; C1851: married to William Morris, journeyman carpenter, living in Castle Street, Tonbridge with two children: William (3) and Rhoena (10 months). |
| 0765 | PLUCK | Sarah Ann | C1841; C1851; C1861 |
| 1555 | PLUCK | Sarah Ann | C1871: living with her maternal grandparents; C1881: living with her elder sister, Rowena (now married to James Fuger). Nothing further found. |
| 0071 | PLUCK | Thomas | C1851; C1861; C1871: wid and living with son John, birthplace is Sheerness; he died later in that year. |
| 0762 | PLUCK | Thomas | C1841; painter; C1851; plumber; C1861: plumber; C1871: plumber, wid., son Alfred living with him. |
| 0764 | PLUCK | Thomas | C1841; C1851: aged 12, assistant to father (plumber); not found in later censuses, but there is a possible death: Q1 1864, Thomas PLUCK: Chelsea 1a, 160. |
| 1543 | PLUCK | William | C1851; C1861 |
| 0944 | PLUCK | William | C1851; C1861; C1871 |
| 2570 | PLUCK | William | C1851; C1861; C1871; C1881 |
| 1554 | PLUCK | William Henry | C1871: living with his maternal grandparents; |
| 1548 | SALE | Phoebe Ann | C1851: recorded as Phoebe; C1861: in this and subsequent censuses she is recorded as Ann - presumably she dropped the Phoebe as there is nothing in the GRO death index; C1871; C1881: a widow. No children of this marriage. |
| 1541 | SAVERY | Elizabeth | C1851; C1861 |
| 2569 | SHAMBROOK | Elizabeth | Parents are James and Ann Shambrook. C1851; C1861; C1871 widow, lamp dealer; C1881: age 64, widow, cook (domestic servant) visiting her married daughter Mary Barney in Willesden. |
| 0763 | SMITH | Ann | C1841; C1851; C1861 |
| 2580 | SMITH | Katherine Susan | C1881; C1891; C1901 - can not find Katherine or her two sons in this census. |
| 1549 | WELLS | Ann | C1861 The three oldest children do not appear with their parents. C1871 Ann is a widow living with her parents; two of the children are elsewhere with the family in Tonbridge: Mary Elizabeth is with John and Ann (uncle and aunt) and Kate is at the George Inn with John and Sarah Wells; C1881: now living with her married daughter, Rowena Fuger; C1901: living in Strood with her daughter Rowena. She died in Strood the following year, aged 70. |
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Lesley Murray and Lesley Collins for providing some of the information used in the compilation of this tree.
