3.2 John (1) TUCKER
(John (2) , Thomas
(3) ) was christened on 21 Sep
1834 in Brixham, Devon.
John (1) was a mariner, like his father. Also like his father, he was away from home on most census dates. In the 1861 census, he was recorded as mate of the Antelope moored near Cardiff.John married Mary Grace WARD, daughter of Brixham stonemason Philip WARD and his wife Elizabeth née BELL, in 1854. Mary was christened on 7 Oct 1827 in Brixham.
John and Mary had the following children:
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4.1 F i Margaret TUCKER was born on 22 Oct 1854 in Brixham.
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Her twin, Mary Ann (1) TUCKER, was also born on 22 Oct 1854 in Brixham. Mary Ann died 4 months later and was buried on 22 Feb 1855 in Brixham.
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M ii John (3) TUCKER was born in 1865 in Brixham. By 1881, he had become a shipwright and was living with his sister Margaret and her family at 4 Upton Cottages, Brixham.
3.3 Robert (2) TUCKER (John (2) , Thomas (3) ) was christened on 29 Jan 1837 in Brixham, Devon.
Robert married and had two children in the Brixham area, where he became a shipsmith. The family then settled in Grimsby about 1870¾no doubt after visiting there on a fishing boat. In 1881, he was a blacksmith resident with his wife and five children at 15 Hilda Street, Clee with Weelsby (now called Old Clee), Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He had clearly retained his connection to the sea: his son George was a already employed on a fishing boat and he had a fisherman as a lodger. Robert was a caretaker of a hall in Clee in 1891 and still living there in 1901.
Robert married Elizabeth Millman ROBERTS
some time before 1861,
when the couple were living in Drew Street,
Brixham. Elizabeth was born in 1836 in Brixham, the daughter of
Brixham fisherman John George ROBERTS and his wife Mary Anne née
MILLMAN, and died in 1903 in
Grimsby .
Robert and Elizabeth had the following children:
4.4 F i Mary Ann (2) TUCKER was born in 1862 in Brixham and married in 1883 in Caistor, Lincolnshire (the registration district in which Grimsby lies). +
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M ii George Henry TUCKER was born in 1867 in Dartmouth, Devon. +
4.6 F iii Elizabeth (1) TUCKER was born in 1872 in Grimsby and died there in 1901.
4.7 F iv Hannah G. TUCKER was born in 1875 in Grimsby. In 1891, she was living with her widowed aunt, Phillis SALSBURY née ROBERTS, and Phillis's daughter and granddaughter at 27 King Street, Great Crosby, Lancashire.
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F v Amelia TUCKER (called Melena in the 1881 census and Helen in 1901) was born in 1877 in Grimsby. In 1901, she was still living with her parents.
3.4 Mary Yandell
TUCKER (John (2) , Thomas (3) ) was born on 22 Apr 1839 in
Brixham and died in 1898 in Paignton, Devon.
Mary became a dressmaker. After her first husband's death, she had returned to live with her parents by 1871. In 1881, she was a domestic servant in the household of John BROWN in Stafford Villa, Paignton. In 1891, Mary was living with her second husband, her daughter Fanny and her husband's 5-year-old granddaughter Fanny FREER at 1 Collyend Terrace, Paignton.
Mary married (1) George Richard Henly HEATH in
1861. George was born in 1840 in Totnes, Devon, the second son of auctioneer and
corn dealer John HEATH and his wife Rachel. He died in 1865.
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4.9 F i Fanny Tucker HEATH was born in 1868 in Brixham.
Mary married John PARNELL
in Paignton in 1883. John was born in Paignton in 1827; it was his
second marriage.
3.5 Thomas (2) TUCKER (John (2) , Thomas (3) ) was born on 30 Nov 1841 in Brixham and died on 12 Dec 1930 in Dartmouth.
Thomas moved to Dartmouth about 1860 and lived there for the rest of his life. He is recorded as living in Townstal in 1863, in New Road [later Victoria Road] in 1864, in Lower Street in 1871, in Bear's Cove Hill [Bayards Cove Hill] above the Dartmouth Arms Hotel in 1881, in Bayards Cove in 1887 and 1891, at "Culloden," Higher Victoria Rd., in 1915, and in Lake Street at his death in 1930.
According to his obituary in the Dartmouth Chronicle, in the 1860s Thomas went to sea with Capt. James Reed TOLMAN, a well-known Dartmouth master mariner who later founded the Dartmouth & Torbay Steam Packet Company. However, Capt. Tolman sailed to the West Indies and the Mediterranean, and not to Newfoundland as stated in the obituary.
Capt. Tolman's most famous sailing vessel, Sly Boots
Drummond Castle, built in 1881 for the Castle Line's mail service to South Africa, called regularly at Dartmouth.
Thomas married Sarah Ann POPE, daughter of Dartmouth milkman James Bates POPE and Grace née ROOPER, on 15 Feb 1863 in Townstal, Devon. Sarah was born on 17 Mar 1840 in Street, Devon, and died on 23 Aug 1921 in Dartmouth. Her death was reported in the Dartmouth Chronicle.
Thomas and Sarah had the following children:
3.6 Elizabeth Ball TUCKER (John (2) , Thomas (3) ) was born on 3 Feb 1846 in Brixham.
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F i Caroline Louisa TUCKER was born on 29 May 1864 in Dartmouth and died on 13 Feb 1938 in Paignton, Devon. + 4.11
M ii William Henry (2) TUCKER was born in 1865 in Dartmouth and died in the Dardanelles in 1915.
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M iii Thomas (1) TUCKER was born in 1867 in Dartmouth. He was a general labourer and lived with his parents at least until 1901. He appears to have married Sarah some time later. + 4.13
M iv John James TUCKER was born in 1869 in Dartmouth.
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F v Sarah Ann TUCKER was born in 1871 in Dartmouth. In 1891, she was a servant in the household of Robert BEYNON, a gas engineer living at Hollacombe House, Torquay Road, Paignton.
Sarah married (1) George BREWER in 1907 and , some time after 1930, she married (2) Harry REA. Sarah and Harry lived in Lake Street. Sarah was renowned for the woollen socks she knitted, the speed with which she answered letters, and her walking endurance¾she originated the family saying, "It's just around the corner, m'dear" (without saying which corner).+
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F vi Laura (1) TUCKER was born in 1873 in Dartmouth.
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M vii Henry (2) TUCKER was born in 1876 in Dartmouth. + 4.17
M viii Alfred TUCKER was born in 1877 in Dartmouth. + 4.18
M ix Charles TUCKER was born in 1880 in Dartmouth and died in 1916.
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F x Lilly Ethel TUCKER was born in 1882 in Dartmouth and died on 6 Jan 1931. In 1901, she was unmarried and living with her parents.
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xi Another TUCKER was said to have died in infancy. This would make up the eleven children mentioned in Thomas (2) TUCKER's obituary.
3.7 Margaret Ann TUCKER (John (2) , Thomas (3) ) was born in 1856 in Brixham and died there in 1930.
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i Frederick William HATSWELL, born in 1868 in Brixham, was a merchant seaman. In 1901 he was First Officer of the SS Darlington moored in Falmouth harbour. In the 1920s, he skippered a boat that sailed regularly between New York, Cuba and the West Indies.
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F ii Elizabeth Tucker HATSWELL was born in 1870 in Brixham.
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M iii Alfred Edward HATSWELL was born in Brixham in 1873. In 1899, he married Amelia Langdon BULEY, daughter of Brixham fisherman Samuel BULEY and his wife Anna. + 4.24
F iv Helena Mary HATSWELL was born in Brixham in 1874.
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F v Olive Lucy HATSWELL was born in 1877 in Brixham.
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F vi Laurine HATSWELL was born in 1879 in Brixham.
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M vii Herbert Harold HATSWELL was born in 1883 in Brixham. In 1901, Herbert was a carpenter living at home.
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M viii Leonard Victor HATSWELL was born in 1884 in Brixham.
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Vera Ermyntrude HATSWELL was born in 1885 in Brixham.
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i Ellen Tucker STEER was born in 1877 in Brixham. In 1902, Ellen married George James FRIEND, son of Ramsgate fisherman George FRIEND and his Brixham-born wife Susan.
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M ii Henry Archibald STEER was born in 1879 in Brixham.
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iii Melina Margaret STEER was born in Brixham in 1880 and died there in 1881.
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iv Sydney Ernest (1) STEER was born in Brixham in 1884.
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F v Elsie STEER was born in 1885 in Brixham.
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M
vi Aubrey William STEER was born in 1888 in Brixham and died there in the same year.
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M vii Percy Tucker STEER was born in Jul 1890 in Brixham.
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M viii Ralph Wilfred STEER was born in 1893 in Brixham. His wife's name was Lily.
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F
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May STEER was born in 1896 in Brixham. May married Bill LAWRENCE.
