Melbourn & Cambridge Plucks
Origins
This tree is a continuation from Tree 4.
The head of this tree, Benjamin Pluck (PL0410) was born in Arkesden in 1776, the son of William Pluck (PL5) and his second wife Eizabeth Wootten. Benjamin next appears in the records on 14 October 1801 when he marries Mary January in Melbourn Parish Church (Boyd's index). Melbourn is about 12 miles from Arkesden. His older brother, Thomas, also moved from Arkesden, but in his case to Fowlmere, just a couple of miles from Melbourn.
| PL No | Surname | Forenames | Notes |
| 1300 | CATLEY | Elizabeth | C1851; C1861; C1871: wid, with 4 unmarried sons at home, all farm labourers; C1881: 3 sons at home; C1891: grandson Charles is with her. |
| 4721 | CLARKE | Charlotte Agnes | C1901; C1911: married 16 years, 4 children born, 3 still living, born Holme, Hunts. |
| 1295 | CLEMENT | Mary Ann | The children are in the Royston workhouse in 1841 and 1851. There are a couple of deaths in the GRO index that could be the mother (1) Dec 1838, Mary Pluck, Royston 6, 347 and (2) Mar 1841, Mary Pluck, Royston 6, 414, but nothing that suggests the death of Joseph, or any other information about either parent. |
| 3373 | CLIFFORD | Rosina M | Mother's maiden name was LOCK |
| 1310 | DAY | Lydia | C1851: age 12; C1871; C1881; C1891; C1901. |
| 1320 | FRENCH | Jane | C1891; C1901; |
| 1315 | JACOBS | Sarah Ann Crich | She married George Pluck (PL1303), her first cousin. |
| 0410 | PLUCK | Benjamin | Benjamin, the top of this tree, can also be found in Tree 4, the son of William Pluck (PL5) and his second wife, Elizabeth Wootten (PL405). |
| 1306 | PLUCK | Charles | C1871: farm lab, living with wid. mother; |
| 1318 | PLUCK | Charles Smith | C1881: he is living with his aunt, Jane Smith, a domestic servant, unm, with a 4 month old daughter. His widowed mother is working as a cook at Shelford House in Little Shelford; C1891: living with his grandmother; C1901: unm, a domestic gardener; |
| 1311 | PLUCK | Elizabeth Anne | C1881: hand in paper mill; C1891: factory girl paper; C1901: still living in Sawston, unm, no occupation given. There is a possible marriage in 1914 in the Chesterfield RD to James L Baker. |
| 1321 | PLUCK | Eva Elizabeth | C1901: a domestic servant in Cherry Hinton |
| 1309 | PLUCK | Frederick | C1871: farm lab, living with wid. mother; C1881: unm. a shepherd; C1901: now married, a shepherd. |
| 1303 | PLUCK | George | C1871: farm lab, unm, living with wid. mother; C1881: a shepherd, wid. and living with his mother. It looks as though his wife died in childbirth giving birth to Walter in Q4 1874. Walter also died soon after. |
| 1301 | PLUCK | Jabez | No baptism found yet. C1841: age 25, living at The Green, Melbourn, labourer; C1851: farm lab.; C1861: ag lab. His marriage record (VRI) gives his father's name as Benjamin. |
| 1313 | PLUCK | James | C1891: farm labourer; C1901: railway porter; C1911: railway porter. |
| 1302 | PLUCK | James Catley | C1871: a shepherd. His wid. father in law (Joseph Day) is living with them; next door are John and Letitia Day and their 8 children. C1881: farm lab; C1891: shepherd; C1901: shepherd; |
| 1299 | PLUCK | Joel | Joel is known only from his burial record. He was aged 16. It is assumed, but not proven, that he is the son of Benjamin Pluck and Mary January. |
| 1298 | PLUCK | Joel Clement | C1841: age 2 in the Royston Union Workhouse, a pauper; C1851: still in the workhouse; C1861: in Dwygyfylchi, Caernarfon, a lodger in the houhold of Robert Roberts, his future father in law; C1871: married, living in Babell, labourer in quarry; C1881: no change; C1891: still at Babell, now head of household; he and his wife speak English and Welsh; C1901: no change, labourer in stone quarry. |
| 1291 | PLUCK | Joseph | In 1841 all four children are in the Royston Union workhouse; their parents are not in the workhouse, presumably they are dead. In 1851 only Rebecca, Stephen and Joel are still in the workhouse, the eldest, Susan, now 20, is now one of 12 lodgers in a house in Edmonton. |
| 1322 | PLUCK | Lizzie Jane | C1901: recorded as Linda J |
| 1296 | PLUCK | Rebecca | C1841: age 6 in the Royston Union Workhouse, a pauper. C1851: age 16 still in the workhouse, a pauper, no occupation. No subsequent information found. |
| 1319 | PLUCK | Sarah Ann | C1891: factory girl paper; C1901: folder at paper mill; |
| 1297 | PLUCK | Stephen | C1841: age 4 in the Royston Union Workhouse, a pauper. C1851: still in the workhouse. Not found in later censuses but there is a possible death in Q2 1856, Royston 3a, 135. |
| 2846 | PLUCK | Susan | Known only from the 1841 census. Parentage assumed in the absence of
any data apart from the association with her presumed siblings in the
workhouse. Probably born in Melbourne. C1851: a lodger, one of 12, living in Edmonton. Nothing else known although there is a possible death in Q4 1918, Hertford 3a, 1578, age 78. |
| 1293 | PLUCK | Susanna | Susanna Pluck and Frederick Jacobs had 7 children, one of whom was
Sarah Ann Crick Jacobs who married her first cousin George Pluck (PL1303). Susanna is Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera's 3xg grandmother. |
| 1308 | PLUCK | William | C1871: farm lab, living with wid. mother; C1881: a platelayer; C1891: platelayer; C1901: foreman platelayer |
| 1312 | PLUCK | William | C1881: farm labourer; C1891: gardener; C1901: coachman/domestic. |
| 1340 | ROBERTS | Margaret | C1871; C1881; C1891; C1901; |
| 3381 | SKEGGS | Reginald Joseph W | Mother's maiden name TYLER. |
| 1317 | SMITH | Susan | Susan is in the 1881 census working as a cook at Shelford House, Little Shelford, widowed, aged 37. |
| 3380 | STORRAR | Daniel J | Mother's maiden name FENTRAM. |
A Welsh Link
Not many Plucks turn up in Wales. One exception was Joel Clement Pluck (PL1298) the son of Joseph Pluck and Mary Ann Clement who was born in Melbourn in 1838 and who married Margaret Roberts in 1861 in the Conway RD. They can be found in the 1881 census of Dwygyfylchi where the couple were living with Margaret's father Robert Roberts.
Error
An error was found on 25 July 2017. I had assigned the wrong wife to James Pluck (PL1313). I had married him, erroneously, to Charlotte Matilda Barnes. The correct wife should have been Charlotte Agnes Clarke. This error has been corrected and a new daughter for Charlotte and James, Mabel Agnes, has been added to the tree. I have also added Mabel's husband, Leslie Freeman Endersby, who she married in 1926. No other changes were made to this tree at this time.
Acknowledgements:
I am grateful to Barbara Hughes for her valuable help in compiling this tree.
