115. William Ducksbury
1892 Birth cert ref vol 10b, p 778.
1901 Census: Kendal (24 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1911 Census: Kendal (30 Nether St) with parents. Cabinet maker.
1920 (30 Fletcher street) Marriage to Jane Wilson.At the time of the marriage Jane was living at Milnthorpe road, kendal and she died a few months later. Witnesses at marriage Harry Wilson, Frances Leather and Earnest Russel (assistant curate).
1922 : Possible marriage and children for William Ducksbury and Mary Parkin BUT this may not be correct William, need to get marriage certificate.
1960 : possible death from death indexes
Possibly living at 19 Castle Oval, Kendal in the late 1950's, wife being listed as Margaret.
Possible other first name of Margaret, from electoral register of 1960's ?.
Death cert ref vol 1b, p 513.
225. Kenneth C Ducksbury
Death cert ref 1b, 670, Westmorland South.
1881 Census: Kendal (14 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father.
118. John Henry Ducksbury
He served in the Scotts Guards for 8 and a half years before emigrating to Australia and serving in the Australian Army (28th Battalion, C Company). He enlisted 13 Feb 1915 in Perth WA, giving his occupation as farmer from 11 Nether Street, Kendal, Westmoreland, England and declared himself as single with his father George Nelson as next of kin.
He travelled to Egypt 1 July 1916 and was admitted to hospital 21 July 1916 with pleurodynia (chest infection) at Abbassia, a large Training Centre on the outskirts of Cairo used by the Australian Army. The last entry for North Africa appears to be Nov 1916 then he is in france (Etaples - northern france), but on 9 Nov 1916 he is waiting to be shipped to England and on 11 Nov 1916 he is in Wandsworth Hospital, London with TB, the medical reports states family history of TB. On 14 Jan 1917 he leaves England (Southampton) on the Kanowna and arrives Freemantle 1 March 1917.
He was invalided out on 20/4/1917 as a sergeant and was living at 55 Lord Street, Perth with a fortnightly pension of 69 /- granted from 25 Jun 1917. He died of TB on 24/12/1919 in Freemantle, Perth, Western Australia.
Burried in the Roman Catholic cemetry in Freemantle (grave ref R.C. CC. 618).
He was awarded the following medals 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory medal.
1900 Blanche married Alexander Clunie on 5th Feb and in Oct 1901 had a child Monica but fathers name was not on certificate and she was given her mothers name Baston.
1911 Census: Blanche and John Henry Ducksbury (married around 1902) living at 202 Carlton Vale, Kilburn. The daughter Monica is now refered to as Monica Ducksbury.
1914 Blanche remarried, John Donnell (aged 34, omnibus conductor) who was a border with the family at the time of the 1911 census. Also boarding with them at census was William Orlando Donnel (aged 30, house painter).
1941 Blanche married for a fourth time to Daniel Lewis in June of that year.Blanche tells family that John Henry Ducksbury left her to go to Australia and died shortly after. Meanwhile John Henry Ducksbury enlists with the Australian army and declares himself single and makes no mention of his wife back in London.
Blanche appears to have remarried in 1914 before John H died. John H is back in London in 1916, sick with TB waiting to be shipped back to Australia where he dies in 1919.
229. Monica Baston
Monica was registered in the Paddington workhouse as Baston, taking her mothers name. She was born whilst Blanche was married to her previous Husband Alexander Clunie. In the 1911 census she is then recorded as Monica Ducksbury.
231. Edith (Edie) Mildred Ducksbury
Marriage cert vol 3a, p 609.
232. Francis Kathleen W Ducksbury
Could be Francis Kathleen ?
Death cert : vol 3a, p 375.
Died of TB.
119. Charles Cuthbert Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father. Joiner's apprentice.
1903 Married, Holy Trinity Church, Kendal.Charles Cuthbert married Amy between July-Sept 1903, ref vol 10b p 1227. He was a joiner (journeyman) and lived at 11 Ann Street Kendal.
238. John Ducksbury
Possible death (based on name and age), cert ref vol 8c, p 278.
122. Bernard Ducksbury
1891 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With parents.
1901 Census: Kendal (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father.
1911 Census: (11 Nether St, Nethergraveship) With father and working as an Engineers Turner.At the time of the first word war he was a corporal in the Army Service Corp (M2/149438). (Medal catalog ref WO 372/6).
Possible marriage in quarter ending Dec 1911 (Free BMD) to either Sarah Smith or Isabel Brown
1924 Family travelled together from Liverpool to Lyttelton in New Zealand.
240. Edith M Ducksbury
Possible death from death indexes
128. Dorothy Milcrest
(Birth record, quarter Sep 1893, vol 10b, page 728, West Ward, Now Penrith)
1901C: WES Patterdale (Temperance Hotel) With parents. (Source: 1901C.)
1923: WES Glenridding At marriage.
1901C: LAN South Manchester (25 Hyde Grove) With parents Henry (Superintendent Postal telegraph) and Mary Hannah Garnett. Chartered accountant.
1923: LAN West Didbury. Chartered accountant at marriage.
Occupation: Chartered accountant.
130. Kathleen Milcrest
1933: Keswick (Milcrest Hotel) At marriage.
1974: NZL Upper Hutt, Immigration from GBR.
Occupation: Teacher.
PEARS, STANLEY JAMES, Bank Sub-Manager. Bank House, Kirkoswald, via Penrith, Cumberland. Born 1899, Penrith. Son of the late James Pears. Educated Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith. Married 1933, Kathleen, daughter of the late William Milcrest, of Manor Hotel, Keswick. Served during the Great War 1917-18 with Royal Flying Corps, 20th London, 9th Inniskillin Fusiliers, 7th Suffolks, 13th Middlesex and Prisoners of War Section, GHQ.
SKELTON grandparents Mr and Mrs Stanley Pears set sail for a new life in New Zealand next month - despite the fact that they are both in their seventies. They will arrive just three days before Christmas to be re-united with their son, Ian, and to meet their daughter-in-law and grandchildren for the first time. They set sail on 18th November from Southampton and are spending their last few weeks in England with Mr Pears's sister-in-law, Mrs Margaret Pears, Hazeldene, Culgaith.
Mr Pears is the son of the late Mr James Pears of Pears and Elliott Grocers, King Street, Penrith, and he attended Brunswick Road School and penrith Grammar School when it was housed in St Andrew's Churchyard. He left school in 1915 and joined the Whitehaven branch of the Midland Bank. He joined the Air Force during the 1914/18 war when almost seventeen and he left the Services as acting sergeant with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1920. In 1933 he was appointed clerk in charge of Kirkoswald and Lazonby and the following year he married Miss Kathleen Milcrest at St John's Church, Keswick, on a snowy February day which meant that the bride had to be carried up the snow-covered steps of the church in her long skirt! In 1938 he was appointed Clerk in charge at the Lytham Road branch at Blackpool and he was then promoted to manager. While at Blackpool he was a Past Master of the South Shore Lodge of Freemasons. In 1958 he retired to Glenridding and the couple remained there seven years before moving to Park View Cottage eight years ago.
Mrs Pears's parents ran the Glenridding Hotel but they left it when the dam burst at the Greenside Lead Mines and the torrent of water partly demolished the hotel. They moved to the Manor Hotel, Keswick, but that was taken over by the Army during the war. Then Mr Milcrest died and the family left the hotel and went into Chestnut Hill, the former home of the poet, Shelley. Mrs Pears trained to be a teacher at Darlington Training College and then taught infants at West Pelton in Co Durham prior to her marriage.
While at Patterdale, Mr Pears hunted with the Ullswater Pack and was timekeeper for many years for the annual Patterdale "dog day". He was also treasurer of the village branch of the Conservative Association and treasurer of the Freewill Offering. At Skelton he had been treasurer of Skelton's men's branch of the Conservative Association and a keen member of Penrith Angling Association. Mrs Pears had been a member of Skelton Women's Institute.
The couple will make their home with their son in Upper Hutt, a suburb of Wellington. Ian is a manager and a director of a firm which specialises in commemorative coins and stamps. His two youngsters, David, aged nine and Sally, seven, have never met their grandparents. His New Zealand-born wife, Judith, has begged the Pears to go to New Zealand for years.
131. George Braithwaite
1881C: WES Kendal (9 Middle Ln) With parents.
1891C: WES Kendal (20 and 22 Middle Ln) With parents. Moulder's apprentice.
1901C: WES Kendal (2 Quarryman Pl) With spouse and children. Iron founder.
Occupation: Iron founder.
137. Frederick Ducksbury
Birth cert ref vol 9a, p 168.
1920 US Census : family name given as Ducksberry
1940 US Census : Ward 11, Paterson, Paterson City, Passaic, New Jersey1942 US World War II draft registration, living at 1018 East 23rd Street, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey. Gives next of kin as Hattie Ducksbury.
He was 5 - 9 tall and weighed 175 llb with blue eyes and brown hair.
143. Eugene A Ducksbury
Eugene worked as a machinist and on the railroad.
1930 and 1940 US Census : Paterson, Paterson City, Passaic, New Jersey
149. Margaret Elizabeth Ducksbury
Margaret went by the name Elizabeth and emigrated to America aged 21 she lived for around 60 years at 16 Steiner St, Lawrence, Mass., USA. She worked as a mill operative.
Went to America from Coalville on the SS Celtic, arriving at Ellis Island on 22 August 1908. Margaret was traveling to visit a relative and was 5 foot 4 of dark complexion with brown hair and eyes. She was traveling with a Sarah (Ducksbury) Behan who resided in Karney USA but was born in Carlisle.
Both of them gave John Ducksbury from coalville as their brother. Sarah was a widow by 1921 and had a son Ambrose Beham living at 30 Park St, Lawrence Mass, USA.
259. Edith Alice Shaw
Little Girl’s Burn Fatal
Three-year-old Edith Shaw horribly seared in fire in Methuen.
Three-year-old Edith Shaw, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Shaw of 16 Steiner Street, Methuen, was horribly burned in a brush fire at Cook’s Corner, Methuen, shortly after 6 o’clock last night. The child’s body, face and legs were seared severely by the fire.
The child after suffering intense agony at the hospital while partly conscious at times died at 1:45 o’clock this morning.
Her sister, Louise, nine, who rushed to her younger sister’s assistance was burned about the hands and right forearms.
261. Alice Mary Shaw
Alice and Agnes were twin sisters
1911 Census : with parents at Highfield, Snibston, Leicestershire and working as a coal miner.
George was crippled in infancy following a fall from his high chair.
Marriage : Ashby Z, vol 7a p297.Did George remarry someone called Allen in 1960 after first wife died ?
Possible death from death indexes.
Death cert ref vol 3a, p 738.