The Amble and Norfolk Tucks.

[janwhin]

Originally Posted by Coquet

A little aside: There seems to be a connection with Norfolk and Amble - perhaps it is just me but there appears to be a good number of Sailors from Norfolk making Amble their home?

I would like to start a new thread on the "Tucks" - Shopkeepers and Auctioneers in Amble - apparently another Norfolk bunch that appears to have made Amble their home - unless someone else has some info and can start one??

I notice that Joseph Tuck, the auctioneer, was born in Holt, Norfolk. He seems to have started as a miner, living in Amble, graduating to a china merchant and then auctioneer. Is this the family you're after??

[janwhin]

He is interesting isn't he? Looking at the census, he was in Amble in 1861, the stepson of a master mariner from Norfolk, then in 1871 he's a porter in a large draper's store in Edgeware Road, London, before arriving in Amble again in 1881 as a miner.

[Coquet]

Yes that's them. I've become the custodian of the WW1 medals* etc of Amble born John Joseph Tuck, Senior Engineer Royal Naval Reserve, son of Captain Edward Robert Tuck of "Amble"

J.J. Tuck was killed when HMS Viknor was lost off Ireland

http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_e...hms_viknor.htm


I wasn't sure if the shop owner and Edward Tuck were brothers - I've been going round in circles on 'Ancestry' and 'Find My Past'.

I think the shop is shown here http://www.fusilier.co.uk/old_photos...reet_amble.htm "..uck" of "Tuck" visible.


Some of the bodies from the Viknor washed up on the shores of Ireland but Tuck was not among them.


http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...0JOHN%20JOSEPH


*yes I know, I'm a one trick pony

[Coquet]

Captain Edward Tuck appears to have died on a voyage from Bombay to New York in 1884. I thought he might have been listed on his son's page on the Commonwealth War Graves site at the "Late Captain E.R. Tuck" but apparently not.

[Coquet]

Then we have a J. Tuck in this photo but I think the ages are wrong to be the Tuck lost on the Viknor

http://www.fusilier.co.uk/old_photos..._1898_1899.htm

[Coquet]

Here's Joseph Tuck the auctioneer in action in 1901:

[edit to add: and an Oddfellow of some rank]

[janwhin]

On the 1851 census in Norfolk, Joseph has an older brother, Edward, born about 1845.

I think the J Tuck on the football photo is probably John James, his son, born about 1880. JJ is clerk of the works on Joseph's probate in 1930. Joseph was living in Acklington Road when he died.

[Coquet]

Thanks Janwhin. Does it look like Edward Robert Tuck came to Amble first?
I thought I saw him on the 1861 census as a sailor on a ship in Amble but cannot find it again (should have saved it)

It's a major problem with these maritime types - they just vanish from the census returns for decades.

[janwhin]

In 1861 Edward is an apprentice on board the Percy in Amble Harbour. The master is Robert Hart his stepfather.

I don't think the captain who died at sea is the same Edward, he seems to have been a few years older.

There is an Edward on the crew list of the Harebell, another Amble boat, for the period from Sept 1880 to 1881.

[Coquet]

Edward Tuck appears to have lost another son at sea, by accident this time in 1895 (recorded 1897):

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/lostatsea.html

Charles Adam TUCK, aged 19, supposed lost at sea with the missing ship Barcraig of Glasgow, which left New York for Shanghai, April 25th 1895, youngest son of Mary and the late Capt Edward TUCK, formerly of Amble, Northumberland.

[janwhin]

According to Keys, "Sailing Ships of Aln and Coquet", Edward Tuck was the master of the snow, Warkworth Castle, he was also a shareholder, having 10/64ths. She was written off in 1881 when she went ashore at Garrucha? on passage from Algiers to Carboneras.

[janwhin]

Shields Daily Gazette, 23 June 1884: "at sea on a passage from Bombay to New York on the 19th May, Captain Edward Tuck. Jenny Otto (s)."

[janwhin]

Just spotted Edward's family on 1881 census, living at Longbenton. His wife, Mary is master mariner's wife, born Warkworth 1849ish, three sons, Edward R. 1872, John J, 1874 and Charles A, 1876, all born Amble.

1891, Mary is a widow living in Bootle with her children, including a daughter, Mary E. born 1881 at Forest Hall.

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by janwhin

Just spotted Edward's family on 1881 census, living at Longbenton. His wife, Mary is master mariner's wife, born Warkworth 1849ish, three sons, Edward R. 1872, John J, 1874 and Charles A, 1876, all born Amble.

1891, Mary is a widow living in Bootle with her children, including a daughter, Mary E. born 1881 at Forest Hall.

Thanks Janwhin. I think he (Edward) married a Mary Chrisp from Warkworth.

I've asked one of the National Archives regulars to pull John Joseph Tuck's service paper - I'm interested to see if he had any connection with Amble Shipping as well, as he will be from a Mercantile Marine background.


I've come across this Snow "Warkworth Castle" somewhere before but cannot remember where. I'm sure she was an Amble beauty.

[Coquet]

I see from the 1911 census that one of the sons of the Auctioneer Tuck was the Manager of a Mineral Water Factory.

"Connections" as James Burke used to say!