The Family of William Pluck and Jane Collins
Origins
William's origins are unknown at the moment. According to the census he was born in St Neots but no birth record has been found yet. All the early GRO registered deaths in St Neots are accounted for but it is quite possible that his father died before 1837. James and Elizabeth Pluck baptised a William in Horseheath on 5 June 1819, but Horseheath is more than 50 miles from Wisbech. William is possibly related (by marriage) to Sarah Pluck who heads Twig 4.
Notes
PL No |
Surname |
Forenames |
Notes |
| 2503 | COLLINS | Jane | C1851; C1861 C1881: Jane is remarried (she married the lodger - see 1871 census) and living in Wilsden Yorkshire. Her husband is absent but her daughter, Elizabeth, is living with her, unmarried and working as a worsted weaver. Also in the house are two visitors: her daughter Martha with her husband William Bundy. There ia also a 3 year old William Pluck, grandson, born in Leeds. He is probably the son of Elizabeth. |
| 2328 | LYNN | Anne Maria | C1871;C1881; C1891: recorded as Jane but this is an error; C1901 |
| 2518 | PLUCK | Ada | C1981; C1901. Probably married in Q4 1907 Wisbech 3b 1442 to either John Henry Burton or William Sims. |
| 2509 | PLUCK | Bertha Matilda | C1871: living with her married sister, Martha Jane, in Eaton Socon, Beds. Married Q4 1877, Bradford Yks 9b, 37, to either John CROOK or James MOORBY (can not find either in the 1881 census.) |
| 2519 | PLUCK | Eliza Ann | C1891: Lilley; C1901. Married Q1 1909 Wisbech 3b 306 to either Arthur Thomas Richardson or ? |
| 2517 | PLUCK | Elizabeth | C1891: Lizzie; C1901: not found (or in marriage or death indexes) |
| 2508 | PLUCK | Elizabeth Maria | C1861; C1881: living with her mother in Yorkshire. There is a 3 year old grandson, William, who may be her child. C1891: living in Wilsden with her husband John. No children listed. |
| 2513 | PLUCK | Hannah | C1881; C1891; C1901: not found. Not found in marriage or death indexes, either. |
| 2504 | PLUCK | Henry | C1851; C1861; C1871; C1881; C1891: age 56!; C1901: age 65! The three eldest children (Sarah Jane, Martha Elizabeth and Mary Ann) all died in Q3 1875. There was a cholera outbreak in London that killed 11,000 people, possibly coincidental, but death certificates will answer the question. |
| 2507 | PLUCK | Jane | C1861 |
| 2515 | PLUCK | John Henry | C1881; C1891: recorded as Henry. C1901: not found but there is a possible death record: John Henry Pluck, Hackney 1b, 334, age 20. |
| 2516 | PLUCK | John Seth | C1881; C1891 and C1901: recorded as John; |
| 2526 | PLUCK | Martha Elizabeth | Born and died between censuses but there is no other family that she could belong to. |
| 2528 | PLUCK | Martha Elizabeth | Born and died between censuses but there is no other family that she could belong to. |
| 2506 | PLUCK | Martha Jane | C1851; C1861; C1871: married, working as a papermaker, living in Eaton Socon, together with sister Bertha, no sign of husband. C1881: she and William are visiting her mother in Yorkshire - no children recorded. |
| 2527 | PLUCK | Mary Ann | Born and died between censuses but there is no other family that she could belong to. |
| 2529 | PLUCK | Mary Ann | Born and died between censuses but there is no other family that she could belong to. |
| 2511 | PLUCK | Richard | C1861; C1871. Not found in subsequent censuses or the death (or marriage) index. |
| 2505 | PLUCK | Sarah Ann | C1851; C1861; C1871 and 1881 working as a domestic servant in Bedford. In 1901 working as a waitress in a large household in Bingley (2 family, 5 servants + gardeners). |
| 2512 | PLUCK | Sarah Jane | C1871; C1881: not found |
| 2520 | PLUCK | Thomas | C1901 |
| 0570 | PLUCK | William | C1851; C1861 |
| 2523 | PLUCK | William | Assigning Elizabeth Maria as his mother is purely speculative. There is no direct evidence. I can't find a birth record in the GRO index which leads me to suspect that he was registered under another surname. It could have been Pickles, unfortunately a common Yorkshire surname. He was not with Elizabeth in the 1891 census. |
| 2514 | PLUCK | William Henry | C1881; C1891 |
A Martha Elizabeth Pluck married in December 1900 (Wisbech, 3b, 1395). Henry Pluck and Anne Maria Lynn had two daughters named Martha Elizabeth: PL2526, b.Q2 1872, d. Q3 1875, and PL2528, b. Q1 1878, d. Q3 1878 - all events in Wisbech. There is no record of a third daughter. It is possible that the Martha who married in 1900 was a widow of a Pluck male, but I have no record of such a marriage.
