17. John Ducksbury
In the 1851 census a John Ducksbury was a carpenters apprentice in Kendal living in the house of an uncle James Simpson, a 71 year old unmarried Mason who was living with his sister Catherine Simpson 73 and unmarried. The name reappears as James Simpson Ducksbury, one of Johns children and grandchildren. Also living in the house is John's brother Samuel Ducksbury.
1861 Census: West Derby (7 Cecil St) With spouse and children. Joiner and carpenter.
Name spelt Duxbery on marriage certificate and Ducksberry on Death certificate. Died from tubercolocis.
1861 Census: West Derby (7 Cecil St) With spouse and children.
1871 Census: West Derby (151 Crown St) Servant to Richard and Jane Thompson. (Children are not at the same address.)
1881 Census: Liverpool (29A Birchfield St) With son James. Monthly nurse.
1861 Census: West Derby (7 Cecil St) With parents.
Born in West Derby (birth cert ref 8b 377).
1861 Census: LAN West Derby (7 Cecil St) With parents.
1881 Census: LAN Liverpool (29A Birchfield St) With mother. Commercial clerk.
21. John Ducksbury
1851 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With parents. Spinner (ex-Printer).
At the time of the marriage John was living at Burk Street, Carlisle and Jane lived in Kirkland, Kendal. The marriage took place at the Catholic chapel in Kendal and the witnesses where Richard Burkett and Ann Rigg. After the marriage they lived in Fellside, Kendal. He died in 1859 of TB at Kirkland, Kendal.
Taken from old handwritten notes made from a Roman Catholic record of graves (No 51 Sec A).
John Ducksbury, Age 23, June 1859 and Elizabeth Unsworth, Age 39, Jan 4 1886 listed together.
Jane had three sisters and four brothers John, Henry, William and Abel. John went off to America and died in an accident in Snohomish, Washington state. When John Ducksbury died of TB in 1859, Jane went on to marry Thomas Unsworth (she was his third wife, and he is believed to have had a total of 22 children) who was a blacksmith and then a farmer at Strickland Ketel, near Kendal. Jane died Dec 1886.
1851 Census: Kendal (Nether Bridge, Kirkland) With parents William and Jane Cockroft. (Father's occupation listed as Grocer.)
1861 Census: Kendal (Kirkland) Lodger with son William and brother John Cockroft. Dress maker.
1871 Census: Kendal (Yd 80, 10 Stricklandgate) With spouse Thomas Unsworth, son William Ducksbury from previous marriage, children, and step children.
1881 Census: Strickland Kettle (Carling Steps) With spouse Thomas Unsworth and step children.Details taken from a Remembrance notice
"In affectionate Remembrance of JANE the wife of Thomas Unsworth who died December 5th 1885 aged 51 years, RIP"
Their marriage took place at St Peter's Church in Lancaster, the witnesses being Joseph Unsworth and Martha Amelia Sewel. At the time of the marriage William and Ellen where living in Arkholme near Lancaster. William was a coachman and Ellen a laundress.
1851 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With parents.
1861 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With father and aunt Mary Ducksbury. Wool warehouse boy.
1871 Census: Lancaster (Lane Houses, Arkholme) Lodger with Ellen Atkinson and her daughter Rachel. Coachman. (Source: 1871C. William marries landlady Ellen in 1872.)
1872: Lancaster (Arkholme) Coachman at marriage. (Source: MCert.)
1881 Census: Lancaster (Lane Houses, Arkholme) With spouse and children. Gentleman's coachman.
1891 Census: Lancaster (Providence House, Arkholme) With spouse, children, and nephew Charles Ducksbury. Farrier.
1901 Census: Lancaster (Providence House, Arkholme) With son Walter, daughter Isabella, son in law, and grandchildren. Farrier
Ellen Atkinson (formerly Wharton) was a widdow when she remarried in 1872.
27. Jane Ducksbury
Witnesses at the marriage where Samuel Ducksbury and Mary Jane Braithwait.
1851 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With parents.
1861 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With father and aunt Mary Ducksbury.
1870: Kendal (Wildman St) Weaver at marriage. (Source: MCert.)
1871 Census: Kendal (No 1 Yd 13 Wildman St) With spouse and daughter Sarah.
1881 Census: Kendal (55 Far Cross Bank) With spouse and children.
1891 Census: Kendal (10 Far Cross Bank East) With children.
1901 Census: Lancaster (21 Clarence St) With spouse and children.
1851 Census: Kendal (High Kent Side) With grandparents Thomas and Sarah Winder. (Grandfather's occupation listed as Rope maker.)
1870: Kendal (Stricklandgate) Bobbin turner at marriage. (Source: MCert.)
1871 Census: Kendal (No 1 Yd 13 Wildman St) With spouse and daughter Sarah. Bobbin turner.
1881 Census: Kendal (55 Far Cross Bank) With spouse and children. Bobbin turner.
1891 Census: STS Leek (Bath St) With Jabez and Louisa Mathews. Bobbin tuner. (Jabez Mathews's occupation listed as Bobbin manufacturer.)
1901 Census: Lancaster (21 Clarence St) With spouse and children. Mechanical labourer.
87. Maria E Winder
In the 1901 Census, a Maria Winder, age 24, born Kendal, was employed as a domestic housemaid by Robert and Mary Preston of 35 Springfield Terrace, Lancaster.
28. Samuel Ducksbury
Samuel and Annie where married at the Catholic Chapel at New Road, Kendal.. The witnesses where John Winder and Mary Henderson. Samuel was living at 4 Dockray Hall cottages. Later on in 1881, his half sister Elizabeth was living next door at 6 Dockray Hall cottages.
1861 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With father and aunt Mary Ducksbury.
1871 Census: Kendal With father and step mother. Cloth finisher.
1881 Census: Lancaster (65 Lune Rd) With spouse and children. Hotel porter. (they appear as Outbury not Ducksbury - poor handwriting ?).
1881 Census: Lancaster (65 Lune Rd) With parents.
1891 Census: Lancaster (Kings Arms, Market St) With cousin George Ducksbury and other relatives. Coach builder's apprentice.
1881 Census: Lancaster (65 Lune Rd) With parents.
1891 Census: Lancaster (Providence House, Arkholme) With uncle and aunt William and Ellen Ducksbury.
1901 Census: Lancaster (2 HattonsYd, Cheapside) Lodger with William and Elizabeth Tukrington. Hotel porter.
1951 : Death cert ref vol 10c, p 1017, Lancaster.
29. John Ducksbury
John was born at Farcroft Bank, Scalthwaiterigg.
1871 Census: Kendal With parents.
1881 Census: Kendal (4 Woolpack Yd) With parents. Girth weaver.
1891 Census: Kendal (4 Yd 56 Stricklandgate) With spouse and parents. Girth web weaver.
1901 Census: Kendal (4 Woolpack Yd) With spouse and son John. Girth web weaver.
1881 Census: Kendal (7 New Rd) With parents Christopher and Sarah Robinson. Mill hand. (Father listed as Overlooker out of employment.)
1891 Census: Kendal (4 Yd 56 Stricklandgate) With spouse and parents in law William and Margaret Ducksbury. Woolen winder.
1901 Census: Kendal (4 Woolpack Yd) With spouse and son John.
1911 Census: West Derby, Liverpool with son John W.
1938 Death cert ref vol 8b, p 641, Crosby.She died at 176 Church Road, Litherland due to carcinoma of the ventricle. Her Brother W. Robinson was present at the death.
Born at 15 Back Lane, Castle Street, Kendal.
1911 census : Most probably living in West Derby, Liverpool with his mother.
He moved to Liverpool and was in the 17th battalion Kings (Liverpool Regiment). He died in world war one, on Thursday 12 Oct 1916 at the Somme, France
(On his birth certificate from Kendal his father is entered as just 'John Ducksbury')
1851 Census: Kendal (Knipes Yard, Kirkland) With parents.
1861 Census: Kendal (Spencers Yd, Kirkland) With parents. Wool binder?.
1871 Census: Kendal (69 Capt French Ln) With spouse, son, John, mother, and brother George.
1881 Census: Kendal (45 Capt French Ln) With spouse and children.
1891 Census: Kendal (94 Highgate) With spouse and children.
1870: WES Kendal Warehouseman at marriage. (Source: MCert.)
1871C: WES Kendal (69 Capt French Ln) With spouse Isabella (ex Ducksbury), son, John, mother in law Elizabeth Ducksbury, and brother in law George Ducksbury. Warehouseman.
1881C: WES Kendal (45 Capt French Ln) With spouse Isabella (ex Ducksbury) and children. Iron foundry Core maker.
1891C: WES Kendal (94 Highgate) With spouse Isabella (ex Ducksbury) and children. Fireman and engine driver at foundry.
1901C: WES Kendal (30 Union St) With spouse Isabella (ex Garnett), children from two previous marriages, and step children from second marriage. Core maker in iron foundry.
Occupation: Warehouseman, Iron foundry Core maker, Iron foundry fireman.Williams father was unkown, no entry on marriage certificate. Witnesses at the marriage being Isac Wilkinson and Elizabeth Davies
1871C: WES Kendal (69 Capt Fench Ln) With parents.
1881C: WES Kendal (45 Capt French Ln) With parents.
1891C: WES Kendal (94 Highgate) With parents. Apprentice pattern maker.
Occupation: Pattern maker.
1881C: WES Kendal (45 Capt French Ln) With parents.
1891C: WES Kendal (94 Highgate) With parents.
1901C: WES Kendal (30 Union St) With father and step mother. Fishing tackle maker.
Occupation: Fishing tackle maker.
1881C: WES Kendal (45 Capt French Ln) With parents.
1891C: WES Kendal (94 Highgate) With parents.
1901C: WES Kendal (30 Union St) With father and step mother. Machinest in reed manufacturing.
Occupation: Machinest.
32. Henry Ducksbury
Marriage certificate reference 'June 1869, Kendal, 10b 970'.
1851 Census: Kendal (Knipes Yard, Kirkland) With parents.
1861 Census: Kendal (Spencers Yd, Kirkland) With parents. Painter's apprentice.
1871 Census: Kendal With spouse and daughter Mary. Painter.
1881 Census: Kendal (55 Capt French Ln) With spouse and children. House painter.
1891 Census: Kendal (20 Wilson St, Nethergraveship) With spouse and children. Home painter.
1901 Census: Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With spouse and children. House painter.1911 Census: Kendal (30 Nether st). Also at the house was Frank Ducksbury Grandson aged 3. Frank was also living at the house around the 1960 or 70's.
1871 Census: Kendal With parents.
1881 Census: Kendal (55 Capt French Ln) With parents.
1896 Possible marriage, ref vol 10b, p 1230, Kendal
109. Maria Ducksbury
1881 Census: Kendal (55 Capt French Ln) With parents.
1891 Census: Kendal (20 Wilson St, Nethergraveship) With parents. Boot fitter's apprentice.
1901 Census: Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents. Boot fitter.She married George Cragg / Walter Hutchinson Alt: 1904 in WES Kendal BMD district (Source: MIndex.).
112. Ellen Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (20 Wilson St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents. Boot machinist.
113. Catherine Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (20 Wilson St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents. Boot machinist.
1911 Census: Kendal (30 Nether St.) With parents, Boot machinistPossible marriage Sep 1929 vol 10b, p 1525.
114. Charles Ducksbury
1891Census: WES Kendal (20 Wilson St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901Census: WES Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1911Census: working as a boot clicker
1915 Marriage : to Eleanor Gaddes, cert ref 10b, 1655, Kendal.5th Batn Duke of Wellingtons Regiment. Died during world war 1 at Havrincourt, France.
Lived at 62 Morcombe St, Rocky Lane, Liverpool.Eleanor went on to marry Alfred McQuinn in 1922.
116. Frank Ducksbury
Frank was actually Henry and Sarah's grandson, living with them at the time of the 1911 census. Need birth certificate to decide on parents.
Possible death from death indexes
1855 Birth: Kendal, vol 10b, p 546.
1861 Census: Kendal (Spencers Yd, Kirkland) With parents.
1871 Census: Kendal (69 Capt French Ln) With mother, sister Isabella Borwick, and her family. Draper.
1881 Census: Kendal (14 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With spouse and children. Draper's assistant.
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With spouse and children. Draper's assistant.
1901 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With children. Draper's assistant.
1911 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With children. Draper's assistant.
120. Edith Mary Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (55 Highgate) Servant to Alfred and Margaret Heap.Emigrated to America at the age of 25 sailing on the SS Baltic from Liverpool ariving at Ellis Island on 3-April-1911. She was 5 foot 5 inches tall with dark complexion, dark brown hair and grey eyes. She was travelling to meet her fiancee Stephen Downham who had paid her (second class) fare and was living at 144 Shaws Av, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Stephen had traveled from Kendal in 1910 with $400.
According to the ships manifest she had $25 in cash on her when ariving. Also on the Ships Manifest the next entry to Edith is Sara Downham age 25 also from Kendal and was Stephens brother.
SS Baltic, Built by Harlan & Wolf for White Star and Dominion Lines, in 1904. Sailed the Liverpool-New York service. During 1904-05 was the largest ship afloat and was used as a troopship during World War I. Scrapped in 1933.
1901 Census: Kendal (Gillingate) With parents Stephen and Eleanor Downham. Stone mason's apprentice. (Father's occupation listed as Stone mason.)
Stephen emigrated to America in 1910 ariving in April on the SS Baltic sailing from Liverpool to New York. When he arrived he had $400 and stayed with his cousin living at 916 Shaws avenue, Mckeesport, PA. A year later his finacee Mary Edith Ducksbury joined him.
121. Francis Eleanor Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (8 East Bank, Scalthwaitrigg) Servant to Anthony and Margaret Nelson.
1911 Census: Kendal.
1915 Possible marriage from BMD, vol 10b, 1633.
123. Winifred Ducksbury
1901 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father.
1911 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father, working as a photographers assistant.
124. Nellie Ducksbury
Nellie was actually George Nelsons granddaughter. Need birth certificate to find out which parents.
36. William Milcrest
William MIllcrests Obituary :
A Lakeland Host - Death of Mr William Milcrest
We record with much regret the death, which occurred on Thursday, of Mr William Milcrest of the Manor Park Hotel, Keswick, and formerly of the Glenridding Hotel, Patterdale. Mr Milcrest, who was one of the best known and most popular hotel proprietors in the Lake District, died suddenly as the result of a seizure in his 79th year. Mr and Mrs Milcrest celebrated their golden wedding in 1933, they having been married at St Andrew's Church, Penrith, on 17th November of that year. For thirty years before going to Keswick, they lived at the head of Ullswater, but at both Glenridding and Keswick they maintained the highest tradition of hospitality, and their hotels have been known to and valued by thousands of visitors. The severing of this domestic partnership by death will be received with sincere regret by the many people who held the Milcrest family in such high esteem.
Mr Milcrest was born at Kendal and he spent his early life at the County Hotel, Lancaster, with his uncle, Mr Samuel Ducksbury, whose name was widely known to visitors to the county town. It was there that he received his training in the career, which he was to adopt with such success. Leaving Lancaster, he came to Penrith, where he was in the serice of the late Mr Edward Parker, Carleton Hill, for nine years, and it was during that time that his marriage took place. For a similar period following he was with the Ratcliffe family, who, when he first went to them, lived at Levens Hall. Later they moved about a good deal, Mr Milcrest accompanying them.
Returning to Westmorland, Mr Milcrest was for some time with Mr Marshall, Patterdale Hall, and it was when he left there that he took the Glenridding Hotel, which became so well known throughout Lakeland.
It was in March 1897, that Mr Milcrest went to the Glenridding Hotel, and he remained there for 30 years. He left eight years ago, after the disasterous burst in the dam at Keppel Cove Tarn, when the torrent of water which swept down the fellside flooded the lower floors of the hotel and members of the staff who slept in the basement narrowly escaped drowning.
Leaving Ullswater, Mr Milcrest bought the beautiful Manor House, Keswick, the home of the late Mr R D Marshall, who was lord of the manor at Castlerigg, a house standing in a magnificent position above Keswick, overlooking Derwentwater, which had for some years been unoccupied. The mansion was adapted as a hotel and renamed Manor Park, and the family have resided there since, making the name of their new home as highly esteemed as that of the Glenridding Hotel with which they had such a long and honouable connection.
Mr Milcrest had not the time to take much part in public and social life, as he devoted himself almost wholly to the business. At Glenridding, however, he was greatly interested in the Ullswater Foxhounds, and was himself a keen follower of the pack. He was on the committee of the hunt and of the Ullswater Sheep Dog Trials.
He is survived by his wife and their five daughters, three of whom, the Misses A, M and N Milcrest, are at the hotel at Keswick. The two married daughters are Mrs H W Garnett, Altrincham, and Mrs Stanley J Pears, Kirkoswald. A son, Samuel Marshall Milcrest, died at the age of thirteen.
The funeral takes place this (Saturday) afternoon at Ullswater.
He is buried in Patterdale church yard (grave location - 1903 Extension (South) Row 8 Monument 5)
Around 1902/3 he was in correspondance with his cousin William Ducksbury who had by then moved to Liverpool.
1861 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With parents.
1871 Census: Kendal (Stricklandgate) With uncle and aunt Joseph and Mary Ann Marr.
1881 Census: Penrith (Carleton Hill) Footman to William Parker.
1883: Penrith (Carleton Hill) At marriage. Butler. (Source: MCert.)
1901 Census: Patterdale (Temperance Hotel) With spouse and children. Hotel keeper.
1905: Patterdale (Glenridding Hotel) Posting and boating. (Source: 1905 Kelly.)
1914: Patterdale (Glenridding Hotel) Hotelier. (Source: 1914 Kelly.)
Occupation: Butler, Hotel keeper. (Source: (1) Cumberland Herald, 02.03.1935., (2) MCert.)
1861 Census: Askham With mother.
1871 Census: Askham With parents.
1881 Census: Penrith (Brunswick Sq) Domestic servant to William and Deborah Hetherington.Burried : Patterdale with William (grave location - 1903 Extension (South) Row 8 Monument 5)
125. Alice Milcrest
Lived at Langrigge, Windermere
126. Mary Milcrest
Chestnut Hill House, Keswick
Grave Location - 1903 Extension (North) Row 3 Monument 1
45. Hannah Ducksbury
1851 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With father and step mother.
1861 Census: Kendal (Far Cross Bank) With father and step mother. Factory hand.
1873 Mar : marriage ref 10b 958, Kendal.
1881 Census: Kendal (9 Middle Ln) With spouse, sons, and husband's cousin Sarah A Baxter
1891 Census: Kendal (20 and 22 Middle Ln) With spouse, son George, father in law George Braithwaite, and cousin Sarah Ellen Ducksbury.
1901 Census: Kendal (20 and 22 Middle Ln) With spouse, father in law George Braithwaite, and cousin Sarah Ellen Ducksbury
1851C: WES Kendal (Fellside) With parents George (Wool weaver) and Elizabeth Braithwaite.
1873 : married Kendal, vol 10b, p 958.
1881C: WES Kendal (9 Middle Ln) With spouse, sons, and cousin Sarah A Baxter (b 1870 WES Kendal). Tobacco spinner.
1891C: WES Kendal (20 and 22 Middle Ln) With spouse, son George, father George Braithwaite, and cousin in law Sarah Ellen Ducksbury (b 1881? LAN Lancaster). Tobacco spinner.
1901C: WES Kendal (20 and 22 Middle Ln) With spouse, father George Braithwaite, and cousin in law Sarah Ellen Ducksbury (b 1881? LAN Lancaster). Tobacco spinner.
Occupation: Tobacco spinner.
49. Robert Ducksbury
At the time of the marriage to Kate in 1879, Robert was working as a mechanic and living at Ingrow, Keighley, Roberts sister Sarah was a witness at the marriage. By the time of 1881 census Robert and Kate where living in Keighley, he was a blacksmith and she a factory hand (worsted Reeler). They where living at 33 Clough Houses, Ingrow Lane.
Robert and family dissapear from England and reappear in America with brother James.
In 1891/92 Robert Ducksbury was living at 146 E 20th street, Patterson, NJ with James Ducksbury. Later in 1892 Robert was a machinist and a border at 13 Park Place, Carbondale, PA, US. Between March 1894 and 1896 he married his sister-in-law Josephine A Wood (who was also his executer) and left all his estate to her despite the will being contested by James Ducksbury. He died 1896, buried in the Bennettsville cemetery, Corbin Road, Bennettsvile/Bainbridge, Chenango County, NY (grave actually states 1855-1898 but the date of death is wrong, it also contains Frederick A Wood 1858-1894).
1879: YKS Keighley Worsted reeler at marriage. (Source: MCert.)
1881C: YKS Keighley (Ingrow Lane No33 Clough Houses) With spouse. Factory hand.
Occupation: Factory hand, Wosted reeler.
133. Mabel Ducksbury
Birth Cert ref vol 9a, p 216, Keighley.
Possible child of Robert and Kate, need certificate to prove it.
1900 : US Census, residing at District 2 Scranton city Ward 14, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania