Peter Hunnisett

Thomas & Priscilla Duck of Blackland, Calne

Thomas Duck, born ca. 1746, married Priscilla Strong, born ca. 1748, in Calne, Wiltshire, on 22^nd April 1770. They are believed to have had the following children baptised in Calne:

Priscilla died on 22^nd August 1811 and was buried in Blackland, near Calne, on 25^th August 1811.

Thomas died on 26^th January 1829 and their headstone still stands in the churchyard of St Peter, Blackland.

To
The Memory of
PRISCILLA Wife of
THOMAS DUCK
Who died Aug 22^nd 1811
Aged 63 years

My years were spent in lingering pain
But death tho awful gave me rest
I hope in joy to rise again
And share the blessings of the blest

Also THOMAS DUCK
Who died Jan^y 26^th 1829
Aged 82 years

With patience to the last he did submit
And murmurd not at what the Lord thought fit
He with a Christian courage did resign
His soul to God at his appointed time

Of their children:

• Catherine died when she was about 16 and was buried in Calne.

• Abel married Susanna Strong in Avebury on 2^nd May 1805 and lived at Pickwick, Corsham, Wiltshire. They are known to have had the following children baptised in Corsham:

  Edward

  6 Mar 1808

  Isaac

  9 Apr 1809

  Elizabeth Ann

  25 May 1815

  Thomas James

  23 Oct 1817

  In 1841 Abel was a carpenter living in Pickwick, Corsham, with wife Susanna, son Thomas and nephew Matthias Duck. Thomas and Matthias were also carpenters.

  Abel was buried in Corsham on 24th March. In his will of 1839 he left his house to his wife and then to pass to his son Edward, and his business to Isaac. He bequeathed five pounds each to his brother Cain Duck, his sister Ann Dew, and his niece Eliza Dew. The remainder of his estate was to be divided between Isaac, Elizabeth and Thomas. Susanna died the following year.

• Cain married Elizabeth Manners in 1811 and lived in Blackland, Calne.

• Ann married James Dew in Calne on 19^th June 1796 and they had the following children baptised (all in Calne except for Elijah in Cherhill):

  William

  15 Jul 1798

  born 29 June

  Abel

  14 Sep 1800

  born 29 Aug

  James

  10 Apr 1803

  Mary Ann

  21 Apr 1805

  born 7 Mar

  Thomas

  20 Aug 1807

  Abel

  5 Nov 1809

  born 25 Sept

  Caroline

  20 Jun 1813

  born 6 Mar 1812

  Sylvia

  20 Jun 1813

  born 6 Mar 1812

  Eliza

  24 Feb 1815

   

  Elijah

  27 Nov 1818

  born 25 Feb

  In 1841 James and Ann were living in Cherhill.

  Ann had died before the 1851 census and James was living in Calstone with his daughter, Sylvia, her second husband and her children.

• Priscilla was buried in Calne on 27^th April 1806, aged 25.

• Isaac married Sarah Bailey in Kington St Michael on 11^th March 1822 and they are known to have had the following children baptised in Calne:

  Jane

  13 Dec 1822

  bapt. 26 Nov 1823

  James

  ca. 1824

  bapt. 24 Dec 1828

  William

  ca. 1826

  bapt. 24 Dec 1828

  Jacob

  1828

  bapt. 24 Dec 1828

  Esau

  1828

  bapt. 24 Dec 1828

  The family lived in Blackland, just south of Calne, and Isaac was farming there in 1841 with his wife and all 5 children. Isaac died on 20^th June 1847 and his headstone stands in Blackland churchyard. His wife Sarah died on 13^th March 1863.

  

  Sacred
  To the memory of
  ISAAC DUCK
  Who died June 20th 1847
  Aged 61 years
  Also SARAH his wife
  Who died March 13th 1863
  Aged 75 years

  • James started his working life as a miller but later became a publican in Calne. He remained single and ended his life in Calne workhouse where he died in 1904.
  • William became a farmer, married Elizabeth Rawlings with whom he had 8 children. They moved several times ending in Midhurst in Sussex where he died in 1900.
  • Jacob was a miller, remained single and died in1903.
  • Esau was a miller, initially in Calston and then for many years at Crab Mill in Lea, near Malmesbury. He married Sarah Anne Moore, had ten children and died in 1908.