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

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. William (the youngest son of Thomas and Elizabeth) 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, are 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, no death record found.
4342	BRYANT	Minnie Louise	There is a possible birth record in Keynsham, Somerset, in 1899.
3087	BUNN	Samuel	C1881: a bricklayer, born in Norfolk.
2578	CHANDLER	Ann Elizabeth	C1871: age 29, born Paddington, a laundress; 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?
4347	FIELD	Matilda	There are no Pluck/Field births in the GRO index.
2579	PLUCK	Albert	Albert's father is unknown (William died in 1875). C1901 living in Kensington with his mother (19, unmarried, a van guard). Albert's mother died in 1906. He has not been found in the 1911 census, neither has a possible death record been found. Perhaps he emigrated?
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	C1911: recorded as Clara Amy, age 10, at school. Her date of birth given in the GRO death index is 14 May 1900. She was baptised at the same time as her elder brother John Victor.
2573	PLUCK	Ann Elizabeth	C1851; C1861; C1871
1558	PLUCK	Annie Matilda	C1911: age 20, single, working as a vest maker.
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.
4337	PLUCK	Charles John	He enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders in 1919. He was discharged in 1921 (flat feet).
2576	PLUCK	Charles Richard	C1871;
2582	PLUCK	Charles William	C1881; C1891. It is almost certain that this is the Charles William who married Mary Raines in 1897. His age is correct but his father is recorded on the certificate as William Pluck (deceased), painter - not Henry Pluck (deceased) plumber. There are, however, no other Charles William Plucks who fit the bill. C1901: not found; C1911: a builder's labourer, living in Angola Mews, N. Kensington with wife and 6 children. No death record found in the GRO index.
1553	PLUCK	Clara Jane	C1871: living with her maternal grandparents; C1901: housekeeper at the Pigeons Hotel in Stratford (West Ham), unmarried.
4359	PLUCK	Edward George	He is recorded as George Edward in the 1911 census. I have not been able to find a marriage record.
4333	PLUCK	Eileen Doris	Eileen and her husband, Leonard Tomes, emigrated to Australia on the Fairsky with their family of four girls and one boy. Subsequently they added two more girls and another boy. There is a picture of Eileen's parents, James and Doris, in the Gallery section.
2572	PLUCK	Eliza Jane	C1851; C1861
2575	PLUCK	Eliza Jane	C1871; C1901 unmarried, working as a parlour maid in Chelsea
1545	PLUCK	Elizabeth	C1841: 20, living in High Street, Tonbridge.
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). C1911: still at the Wagon & Horses, now has 2 sons and 3 daughters.
2581	PLUCK	Frederick John	C1881; C1891; C1901: not found. No marriage found.
1503	PLUCK	George	C1851; C1861; nothing found after this date.
4338	PLUCK	Georgina	C1911
4360	PLUCK	Gladys May	The death recod fits, but the location is unexpected. No death record found for her husband.
1502	PLUCK	Harriet	C1851; C1861. There is a possible death in 1893. Harriett Riches; Q2 1893; Paddington 1a, 13; age 47.
2571	PLUCK	Henry	C1851; C1861
4335	PLUCK	James	James & Doris emigrated to Australia on the SS Arcadia arriving in Adelaide in April 1961 . Their destination was 35 Jacksons Avenue, Whyalla West, S.A.
1546	PLUCK	John	C1841: age 15, a journeyman painter; C1851: plumber and glazier; C1861: a plumber; C1871: a plumber.
1561	PLUCK	John Victor	C1911: 13 year old schoolboy. He was baptised at the same time as his younger sister, Amy Clara.
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.
4340	PLUCK	Lilian	There is a possible marriage to Leonard N Davies in Q3 1942: Hammersmith 1a, 583.
1559	PLUCK	Lilly Gertrude	Baptised 28 Sep 1897 at St Paul Lorrimore Square, Southwark. C1901; C1911: age 18, single, working as a fancy lace maker. She lived at 274 Walworth Road for a number of years. Did not marry.
1509	PLUCK	Louisa Agnes	C1881; C1891 there is a Susannah living with Agnes (mother) and Ernest who matches the age; C1901: nothing found after 1891.
4344	PLUCK	Marjorie V	Nothing further found after birth record.
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.
4358	PLUCK	Mary T	A possible marriage to John H Coutts in Q3 1965: Havering 5c, 331.
2585	PLUCK	Michael John	He is in the 1964 Electoral register of Merton & Morden together with his parents at 27 Seddon Road.
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.
4341	PLUCK	Sydney Stanley	He started work on the Great Western Railway on 19 September 1927.
0071	PLUCK	Thomas	C 1841; 45, plumber, living in High Street, Tonbridge; 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 (no age recorded at this time).
1543	PLUCK	William	C1851; C1861
0944	PLUCK	William	C1851; C1861; C1871: age 29, born Marylebone, a plumber, no children. No birth record found in the GRO index.
2570	PLUCK	William	C1851; C1861; C1871; C1881
4357	PLUCK	William H	A possible marriage to Shirley E Masters in Q3 1962: Romford 5a 1302.
1554	PLUCK	William Henry	C1871: living with his maternal grandparents; C1911: a house decorator, living in Walworth with wife, Amy, and nine children aged between 20 and one year old.
1560	PLUCK	William Henry J	C1911: age 15, working as a house decorator (his father's trade). He died in Flanders in 1917.
3089	RAINES	Mary	C1911: married 14 years, 7 children, 6 still living. Eventually she had at least ten children.
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.
1557	WOODFINE	Amy Matilda	C1911: nine children, all still living (eldest 20, youngest 1), married 22 years.

 

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Lesley Murray and Lesley Collins for providing some of the information used in the compilation of this tree.