Notes on Tree 10

The Descendants of Joseph Pluck

Origins

This tree starts with Joseph Pluck (PL 509) who was baptised in Wendens Ambo in 1829 (see Tree 8). He was the youngest of the seven surviving children of Joseph Pluck and Ann Gunn. Joseph junior married twice: his first wife, Maria Randell, died a few days after giving birth to their second child, Thomas. Thomas didn't live much longer. Some four years later Joseph married again. He had seven children by his second wife, Eliza Owers.

This is probably the most cosmopolitan of the trees on this website with births in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Jersey, Australia, New Zealand, India, USA, Egypt, Russia and Malaysia. Apart from war deaths in France and North Africa, there is also a death in Estonia.

PL No
Surname
Forenames
Notes
0387 ALLEN Elizabeth Jane C1891; C1901;
0354 BURGESS Sarah Jane C1881.
0675 CUNDY Lilian Ruby E No other children found, no death found.
0978 FAGAN Beverly Beverly was previously married (1971) to Terence Gray by whom she had a son, Rikki Terence in 1973.
0353 OWERS Eliza 1861: married, 2 sons, a dressmaker; C1871; C1881: widowed, a dressmaker, living with her son Robert and his wife Sarah; C1891: recorded as a "smiths striker - a description which almost certainly belongs to 19 year old son Thomas recorded immediately below; C1901: living at the Golden Cross, where her son, Frederick, was the licensee.
I have not been able to find a death record.
0583 PILCHER May Elizabeth Previously married (Q3 1902 West Ham 4a, 3) to William McGregor Campbell.
0349 PLUCK Adelaide Mary C1871;
0358 PLUCK Adelaide Sarah C1901: working in St Helens, Kent, as a housekeeper.
0400 PLUCK Alexander Samuel C1901: blacksmith;
0374 PLUCK Andrew John Felton He became a naturalised citizen of New Zealand on 2 May 1975 [certificate register 238, page 216].
0364 PLUCK Felton Claude C1901
0348 PLUCK Frederick C1881: an engine fitter; C1891: cycle agent; C1901: Licensed victualler at the Golden Cross.
Frederick was the licensee of the Golden Cross in 1901 (census) and 1902 (Kellys Directory), but Thomas Knight was licensee in 1899 (Kelly) and James Anderson in 1906 (Kelly).
0604 PLUCK Frederick George C1891; C1901: aged 15, assistant barman;
3212 PLUCK Gary M There is a possible second marriage in Tower Hamlets in 2004 to Anita Camiloti
0598 PLUCK George Harold C1901: scholar. Died of wounds while serving in the Australian infantry. Buried at the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais
0362 PLUCK Gwendoline Lilian Beatrice C1901
0677 PLUCK Jack Stanley here are two birth records in the index. In Q3 1920 the entry is in manuscript at the bottom of the page with a note which says: see '"M 22. The record in the March 1922 index repeats the 1920 entry. Whether this is an indexing error, or the birth was actually registered almost two years late in 1922 is not clear from this. There is no doubt, however, that he was born on 8 August 1920 as recorded in the death index.
0605 PLUCK Jennie Florence C1891;
0509 PLUCK Joseph C1841: living in Wendens Ambo, age 12 [father away from home]; C1851: labourer, living with his married sister, Ann, in Woodford; C1861: married, a boiler maker living in Plaistow; C1871: living at the Royal Oak, Barking Road, an iron ship plater; (his death certificate recorded that he was a foreman in a shipyard) he died two years later aged 44 from a cancer of the intestine that he was already suffering. The Royal Oak is interesting: 67 Barking Rd / Oak Crescent. (orig. Francis Terrace). c. 1848. Well known 1950s - 80s as having a professional boxing gym above the public house. Frank Bruno trained there. Closed June 2001
0347 PLUCK Joseph C1871: aged 12, office boy; C1881: a boiler maker; C1901
0360 PLUCK Joseph C1901: coppersmith;
0351 PLUCK Kate Charlotte C1871;
0596 PLUCK Lily Eliza C1891: aged 3, living with her grandmother, Eliza Owers (but described as niece); C1901: living with her father, 13, scholar;<br>There is a possible birth registration: Eliza Lily Pluck, Q4 1887, West Ham, which ties in with a date of birth of 30 Sep 1887 in the GRO death index.
0350 PLUCK Margaret Annie C1871;C1881: NF.
0597 PLUCK Philip Archibald C1901: scholar.
Philip Archibald Pluck had an interesting career. He served in the army from 1902 to 1925 and remained in Egypt when he left the army aged 38. In the same year he married the 23 year-old Helen Trivoulidis (a Greek citizen born in Egypt). He died five years later, in Egypt, the father of three sons, the youngest being Leon Pluck who provided me with details of this branch of the family. The widowed Helen moved with her family to Australia.
0346 PLUCK Robert C1871: a smith; C1881: married with 2 children, an engine fitter; C1891: engine maker - turner and fitter; C1901: marine engineer.
0357 PLUCK Robert Frederick C1891: scholar; C1901: engineer turner;
0678 PLUCK Robert William He was shot down in North Africa during WW2.  Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial (Column 271).  Service No 1332330.  There is a photograph of Sergeant Pluck in the Gallery section.  The 454 Squadron website is worth a visit (a link is provided from the photograph page).
3223 PLUCK Roger Alan his birth appears twice in the index: Jun 1968, Hackney, 5b, S'68, mmn Holmes; and Sep 1968, Hackney 5b, 468, mmn Holmes. I have no idea what "S'68 means. There are quite a few amendments/corrections in the June index.
0372 PLUCK Ronald Leslie There is also a small New Zealand branch to this tree. Ronald Leslie Pluck (an uncle of Dave Carter) emigrated with his family some time between 1951 and 1955.
0977 PLUCK Ruth Emma She is in the 1901 census in the Gill Household [RG13/1606 f.12, p16] in East Ham. Emma Ruth is a visitor in the household of John and Alice Gill. John, born in India, is a refrigerator engineer, Alice was born in Wales. I can't see a connection with this family. Nothing further found.
0345 PLUCK Thomas Probably died some time before 1871 when a second Thomas was born (to a different mother, though). His mother died in childbirth, but he survived to be baptised a couple of weeks later (in Wendens Ambo). There is a GRO index death in March quarter of 1855.
0352 PLUCK Thomas I haven't found a marriage to Emily in the GRO index.
0363 PLUCK Violet Vivienne Evelyn C1901
0359 PLUCK William Henry C1901
0575 PYNE Emma C1891; C1901: a patient in the Essex County Lunatic Asylum (mis-transcribed as GLUCK). There is a possible death in Q4 1943: Swansea 11a 1082, age 84 (the age fits).
3209 RICHARDS Janet E M There are a couple of births in the index where the mother's maiden name is Richards: Hamish Guy PLUCK: Q3 1972 in Winchester and Iain John PLUCK: Q3 1973 in Walsall. Both are possible, since there does not appear to be any other Pluck-Richards marriage at that period.
0632 [PLUCK] Emily Known only from the 1901 census. Assignation is not 100% certain because of husband's possibly incorrectly recorded place of birth.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Dave Carter, Leon Pluck, Mark Pluck and Gary Pluck for providing information used in the compilation of this tree.

©2012 Derrick Porter