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 (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.