George Tucker, of Milton-next-Gravesend

Descendants of William Tucker

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/tuckergen.htm ; (document attached)

Children of GEORGE TUCKER and MARY HUNTER are:

Generation No. 3

5. GEORGE3 TUCKER (GEORGE2, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1560 in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England, and died December 26, 1625 in Milton, Kent, England.

He married (1) ELIZABETH STOUGHTON Abt. 1592 in Kent, England, GB, daughter of FRANCIS STOUGHTON. She was born Abt. 1575 in of, Craford, Kent, England, and died August 10, 1597 in Milton, Kent, England.

He married (2) MARY DARRELL February 20, 1598/99 in Little Chart, Kent, England, GB, daughter of JOHN DARRELL and ANNE HORNE. She was born 1577 in Calehill, Kent, England, and died Aft. 1619 in of, Milton, Kent, England.

Children of GEORGE TUCKER and ELIZABETH STOUGHTON are:

10. i. GEORGE4 TUCKER, b. March 04, 1593/94, Gravesend, Milton, Kent, England; d. Bef. May 02, 1648, will proved, Dartford, Kent, England.

ii. ESTHER TUCKER, b. Bef. August 29, 1596, Milton, Kent, England; d. May 13, 1597, Milton, Kent, England.

Children of GEORGE TUCKER and MARY DARRELL are:

11. iii. JOHN4 TUCKER, b. January 23, 1598/99, Milton, Kent, England; d. August 05, 1661, Setucket, Suffolk, NY or Hingham, Suffolk, MA.

12. iv. ELIZABETH TUCKER, b. March 25, 1601, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. Aft. 1619.

v. MARY OR MARIE TUCKER, b. March 17, 1601/02, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. January 29, 1700/01, Wilmington, Kent, England, GB; m. FRANCIS LANGWORTH, July 07, 1628, Little Chart, Kent, England, GB; b. March 1596/97; d. June 01, 1688, Wilmington, Kent, England, GB.

13. vi. ROBERT TUCKER, b. June 07, 1604, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. October 1647, Port Royal, Southampton, Bermuda.

vii. ANNE TUCKER, b. October 03, 1605, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; m. JOHN BEST, April 05, 1624, Milton Church, Milton, Kent, England.

viii. SARAH TUCKER, b. 1606, Milton, Kent, England; d. Aft. 1630, probably, lenham, Kent, England; m. ROBERT THOMPSON, February 17, 1629/30, Little Chart, Kent, England, GB; d. Bef. 1642, will proved, lenham, Kent, England.

ix. MARTHA TUCKER, b. March 19, 1607/08, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. Aft. 1619.

x. RICHARD TUCKER, b. September 10, 1610, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. September 11, 1610, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England.

14. xi. HENRY TUCKER, b. January 26, 1611/12, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. December 1687, Port Royal, Southampton, Bermuda.

xii. BRIDGETT TUCKER, b. December 26, 1613, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. July 28, 1616, Milton, Kent, England.

xiii. HESTER TUCKER, b. August 13, 1615, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. Aft. 1625, father's will.

xiv. NICHOLAS TUCKER, b. September 24, 1616, Milton next Gravesend, Kent, England; d. October 11, 1616, Milton, Kent, England.

xv. DANIEL TUCKER, b. November 21, 1619, Milton, Kent, England; d. August 1638, London, Middlesex, England.

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1. Mary Darrell was born ABT 1577 in Cale Hill Parish of Little Chart, County Kent, England, and died BET 1625 AND 1630 in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England. She was the daughter of 2. John Darrell and 3. Anne Horne. She married George Tucker II, Esquire 20 FEB 1597/98 in Little Chart, County Kent, England, son of George Tucker I and Maria Hunter. He was born BET 1560 AND 1580 in Milton Manor, Milton-next-Gravesend, County Kent, England, and died 26 DEC 1625 in Milton (next Gravesend), County Kent, England.

Disputed Descent

from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=raviac&id...

JOHN TUCKER 911 Born , 16 ,

See "Tucker-Darrell" by Rufus Stickney Tucker, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass., vol. 76, p. 232, N.E.H.&G.Reg. for refutation of ancestry of JOHN TUCKER of Hingham, as set forth in "The Genealogy of the Tucker Family" by Ephraim Tucker (1895) including:

"Wills prove that John and Robert Tucker, sons of George Tucker of Milton next Gravesend, co. Kent, were living in England after their namesakes appear in Massachusetts--John being in England in 1639, 1642, and 1644, and his brother Robert being there in 1639, when according to the will of his half bro. George, he was evidently incapable of managing his own affairs. The English ancestry of these two settlers of Mass. has yet to be discovered." (1922)

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The Will of GEORGE TUCKER of Milton next Gravesend, co. Kent, Esq., dated 11 November 1622. To be buried in Milton under my stone. To Mary, my wife, all corn and grain and household stuff. To my son Robert Tucker £300, to be paid him when twenty-four at or in the porch door on the south side of the Gravesend parish church. To my sons Henry and Daniell 500 marks each. To my daughter Maria Tucker £500 when twenty-one. My daughter Ann Tucker has already been provided for in marriage. To my daughters Sarah, Martha, and Hester Tucker £500 apiece when nineteen, in performance of an indenture made 16 February, 41 Elizabeth (1598/9), between me, George Tucker John Darell, Esq., deceased, my wife's father, and Sir Robert Darell, Knt., her brother. Residuary legatees: my wife Mary and my eldest son, George Tucker. Executrix: my wife Mary. Overseers: my brothers Sir Robert Darell, Knt., and John Darell, Esq.

• To Mary, my wife, my dwelling mansion in Milton called Sir Thomas Wyatt's place, for one year, and then to my son George Tucker.
• To my son George, my manor of Milton and land purchased from John Childe and James Crispe, Sir William Page, Knt., and Henry Stacie, executors of the will of STephen Colt, and lands bought of _____ Peers and Bradbent and of one Anne Barnes, widow, at Dorkenstile,
• with remainder to my sons John, Robert, Henry, and Daniell, successively.
• My son John is to have the lands settled for my heirs male, my annuity from the manor of Mallgraves, co. Essex, and other lands in Hornedon on the Hill, my ten parts and shares in the Summer Islands als Barmother purchased of Sir Robert Mansfeild, Knt., two shares purchased of John Watts, Esq., and four shares purchased of Sir Thomas Smith, Knt.
• To my wife for life and then to my son John lands bought of the Earl of Salisbury in co. Kent. Witnesses: Lawrence Loulase, Francis Jackson, William Pepper, and Thomas Bolke.
• Codicil, dated 14 December 1625. As I have given to my son John lands purchased of George and Thomas Morris and lands purchased of Roger Gardiner in Lower Sherne which cost me near £800, the sixteen shares of the Summer Islands are to go to my son George; he giving my wife half the profits, and my son is to do the best for his brother Daniell in those shares lately given him by his uncle, Capt. Daniel Tucker.
• To the poor of Gravesend £10 and to the poor of Milton £10. To the poor of Hoo, Chalke, and Norfleet, each parish, 40s.
• Witnesses: Martin Stower, minister, Edward Tenche.
• Proved 14 January 1625/6. Administration was granted, 1 July 1630, to Sir Nicholas Salter, creditor, the executrix being dead. (P. C. C., Hele, 5.)

Source: http://usgennet.org/family/tucker/eng/gene/tucker_darell.html

Mentioned in: The William and Mary quarterly, Volume 5 By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Earl Gregg Swem, Richard Lee Morton, Institute of Early American
"Genealogy Of The Ttjckee Family : From Various Authentic Sources. By Ephraim Tucker, Member Woreester Society of Antiquity. Worcester, Mass. 1895. Pp. 414.

In the preparation of this genealogy the author has done faithful service to the New England branch of the Tucker family, deducing from Robert Tucker (1604-1682), of Milton in Kent, England, and Weymouth and Milton, Massachusetts, of whose descendants, embracing a great number of other family names, many of them prominent, the book contains an exhaustive record. Such a work can result only from patient effort in the accumulation of data combined with loving interest and honest family pride. Of these Mr. Tucker's book bears every evidence, for which the descendants of Robert Tucker, of Massachusetts, should be proportionately grateful.

With these words of commendation for the body of the book, it will not appear ungracious to call attention to certain errors in the introductory pages, which treat of the Tucker family in England.

The arms depicted on page 3 as those of Tucker of Devon were granted in 1538 to Robert Tucker of Exeter, county Devon, and could be borne only by those proving descent from him in the Lameston, county Devon, and Helland, county Cornwall, lines. The date, 1079, given for the grant of these arms is, of course, erroneous, 1079 being the number of the Harliean MS., in which the record is preserved, not the date of the grant. While the Tuckers of Kent may have descended from this Robert, still the arms appertaining to Tucker of Milton, county Kent, are: Az. a chevron or between three seahorses ar. Crest—a lion's gamb erased gu. holding a battle-axe head ar. handled or. These arms were used by the senior branch of the Milton stock which went to Bermuda, through which distinguished line was descended Judge St . George Tucker, of Virginia (1752-1827). The conjecture, given with others (p. 9), that the origin of the Tucker name may be found in Teucer, King of Troy, seems to be amusingly borne out by the motto, "Auspice Teucro," of the Bermuda and Virginia Tuckers.

Though the deduction is rightly given elsewhere, there is a grave error on page 15, in what purports to be the pedigree from the visitation of Kent of 1619. This gives all the children of George Tucker (2d of the name) as born of his marriage with Elizabeth Stoughton, and assigns his second wife, Mary Darell (not Darrett), to his son George Tucker (3d of the name). The correct statement, which is that given by the visitation in question, is that George Tucker (2d), of Milton, county Kent, married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Stoughton, by whom he had an only son and heir, George Tucker (3d), "aet 25, 1619 " (from whom descends the distinguished Bermuda, Virginia and India line) and that he married, secondly, Mary, daughter of John Darell of Calehill, by whom he had, with five daughters, three other sons, the second of whom was Robert, the Massachusetts settler. This would seem to dispose of the suggestion, made in a foot-note, that Stoughton, Mass., received its name on account of Robert Tucker's connection with the Stoughton family. The connection is simply in the fact that his father's first wife was of that stock. The town doubtless took its name from some member of the Stoughton family, which was early settled in the colony.

Though the book is devoted almost exclusively to the descendants of Robert Tucker, of Massachusetts, there are a few detached notes of interest relating to others of the name, among these being Thomas Tudor Tucker, Treasurer of the United States from 1801 (not 1794, as stated) to 1828; his brother, St . George Tucker, Judge of the United States District Court, and the letter's two sons, the Judges Henry St . George and Beverley Tucker. There is also a brief note of Judge St . George Tucker's great-niece, Charlotte Maria (not Bronte) Tucker, widely known as an author over the nam de plume of "A. L. O. E." (a Lady of England), who was long a missionary in India. Of this lady, who was a daughter of Henry St . George Tucker, Esq., Chairman of the Honorable East India Company, an extended biography by Miss Agnes Giberne has been published recently."

George Tucker, Esquire, of Milton-next-Gravesend George Tucker, eldest son, resided in or near Milton-next-Gravesend in County Kent.

His father, George, was mentioned in 1572 in a list of the 12 principal inhabitants of Milton-next-Gravesend, and he was third in importance in his city. This George was born about 1580 and married Mary Darrell, daughter of John Darrell of Calehill Esquire.

(He had married as his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Stoughton, and had one son, George, his heir.)

By his second wife, Mary Darrell, he had John, Elizabeth, Maria, Robert, Henry, Sara, Hester, Anna and Martha. The sons George, John and Robert left England in 1636 and went to Bermuda where a relative of theirs, Capt. Daniel Tucker (most likely the Daniel their father's brother mentioned above), had been commissioned Governor February 15, 1615.

George Tucker, the son by the first wife, being his father's heir to the estate in Tavistock in Devon, returned to England after the troubles there had been settled. John and Robert came to Massachusetts.

Soon after this the Tucker family disappeared from Kent County and no further trace of it is found in the records of Milton-next-Gravesend, confirming the generally accepted tradition that about this time the younger generation emigrated to America. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 1020)

References

1. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/tuckergen.htm
2. Herald’s Visitation, Kent England 1619 (document attached)
3. Lothrop Withington. Virginia Gleanings in England. Abstracts of 17th and 18th-Century English Wills and Administrations Relating to Virginia and Virginians. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980. Page 253. < AncestrySharing >
4. Tucker, Robert Dennard (1991). The Descendants of William Tucker of Throwleigh, Devon. < GoogleBooks >