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Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Chad Jardine (View posts)
Posted: 11 Mar 2001 2:45PM GMT
I am related to a Garrett Pluck born 1831 in Co. Wicklow, Ireland; married to Mary Kate, father of Elizabeth Kate, Richard, Mary Kate, Joseph, Mary Anne, and Anne. Elizabeth Kate was born in Dun Laoghaire, south of Dublin in 1861. I can be contacted at beshoffs@aol.com to swap info

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

g.williams (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jul 2002 10:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
my father is called Garrett Pluck he was born in Deansgrange Co. Dublin Eire born in 1928 I would like any info you have on any family history you would not mind sharing
Thankyou
geraldine

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Posted: 23 Feb 2003 4:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 7 Aug 2004 4:43PM GMT
Surnames: Pluck, Conde (Condie)
My great-aunt Alice Mary Conde, dtr. of Andrew Conde and Hannah Beach, was married to John William Pluck 19 Feb 1889 in North LaCrosse, Wisconsin. John was the son of Miles Pluck born 31 May 1828 in Wicklow County Ireland. Emigrated to America in 1852. Married Jane Riley in 1854. This family lived in Horicon, Dodge Co., Wisconsin in 1910 at which time, my great-grandfather, Andrew Conde was living with them aged 79 and a widower. Do you have any information on Miles and family? With thanks, Alice Conde Garner, New Brunswick, Canada

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Chad Jardine (View posts)
Posted: 5 Mar 2003 8:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pluck
My Pluck relatives are from Co. Wicklow within a couple of years of the Miles Pluck you mentioned. I don't have a record of any Miles, but my records are pretty skimpy by that stage. It is quite possible that there could be a connection.

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Captain Hook (View posts)
Posted: 24 Mar 2003 11:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
It's amazing, I too have a father born in Deans Grange in 1928, also called Garrett Pluck. Could we by any chance be related? ( I thought I was an only child, but I do have a sister called Geraldine... might you be related to her?)

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Posted: 14 Jul 2003 3:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Jul 2003 6:33AM GMT
Surnames: Pluck
Hi Alice,
Are you still working on the Pluck surname from County Wicklow, Ireland?
I too am researching this surname, and have accumulated some information on the name. My great-grandmother Margaret Pluck was born abt 1856 and was living north of County Wicklow, in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, when she married my great-grandfather John Kennedy on July 28, 1878. Her father was James Pluck. But I don't yet know where either was born. If you'd like you can contact me at jtliebzeit@shaw.ca
Regards, Jane.

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Posted: 14 Jul 2003 4:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 7 Aug 2004 4:43PM GMT
I haven't done any basic research on the Plucks of WIcklow County, but obtained the data on the Plucks who married into the Condie family from "The History of Dodge County Wisconsin 1880" published by the Western Historical Company of Chicago. I have been trying to contact descendants of my great-aunt Alice Condie Pluck who married John William Pluck, son of Miles Pluck and Jane Riley. Alice was a brother of my late grandfather, Christopher Condie. Alice and John had one son Thomas A Pluck whose death record I recently obtained from the State of Wisconsin (died in 1941 at the age of 51). He married Maude Lees and had 8 children. So far no luck contacting any of them or their descendants.

However, it is interesting that your Plucks also came from Wicklow Co. and there could be a connection. Unfortunately, I don't know the town or village in Wicklow Co. as it wasn't stated in the bio. of Miles Pluck.

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Posted: 29 Apr 2005 2:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi...My name is Margaret A. Pluck - Shaler. I have been searching from where I came. My father was an only child from Donald A. Pluck and Leile DeYarmon. Apparently he left soon after my father was born and married and moved to Artesia, New Mexico. I believed he passed away in 1991. My father, Donald E. Pluck passed away in 1984 and never really knew his father so could not provide much info. Maybe somewhere along the line this is a connection? You mentioned the Plucks you were researching had 8 children, so maybe the big families continued?
Thanks, Margaret ( Peggy) Pluck-Shaler

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Posted: 29 Apr 2005 2:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
I apologize....Donald A. Pluck (my grandfather) passed away Feb. 7, 1997 and was born July 26,1913. Don't know if there are any connections but it would be nice to know if there were! Thanks. Peggy

Re: Pluck Ancestors in Ireland

Jane Liebzeit (View posts)
Posted: 29 Apr 2005 9:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pluck
Hi Peggy,

I'll try to help out if I can. I was at one time in touch with a man name Derrick Porter who has an extensive database of Plucks and Pluckroses. He lives in Sussex, England, and you can check out his website at http://www.pluckrose.org/ where he goes into detail about his search for ancestors, and how the name was originally Pluckrose, but started to be shortened to Pluck in the 1600s.

It's interesting that you have the same name as my great- grandmother, Margaret Pluck, who married my great - grandfather John Kennedy in 1878 in Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), County Dublin, Ireland.

There are three things to keep in mind about the Plucks:
1) Pluck is an extremely rare and ususualy name, and I have had very little response to most of my queries about them, due to the fact that there aren't many (as Derrick Porter told me, they are "as rare as hen's teeth") . He can be reached at: pluck@one-name.org

2) You will find that the vast majority of whatever Plucks there have been over the hundreds of years that Derrick has been researching came from the Cambridge/ Essex border area of England, and later spread out a bit, but are still concentrated in the Cambridge general area. He has found that the name was originally Pluckrose and was shortened in the 1600s to Pluck. He has a vast database of the few Plucks with all their descendants throughout the years.

3.) My Plucks belonged to the Irish Plucks, who were in County Wicklow since at least 1580, and who in the mid-1800s still numbered 11 families in Ireland, all in County Wicklow or just to the north in (Kingstown, mainly), County Dublin. Eleven families is not a lot with that name, for the whole country. As Derrick told me "... the fact that Plucks could be found in Ireland as far back as 1580 would tend to suggest that Irish Plucks might not be descended from Pluckroses as are the English Plucks".

So, with these in mind, I guess it's important to try and determine whether your Plucks had English or Irish origins. One thing that might be helpful would be the religion. The Irish Plucks were Roman Catholic.
Now with emigration, etc., some could have changed religious affiliation, but chances are that if yours are Protestant, they would have originated in England, if Roman Catholic, in Ireland.

I have found a lot more information now on my Plucks, and would be willing to share this with you if you want to contact me a jtliebzeit@shaw.ca.
I'm not prepared to put all the information I have out on a messageboard, as there wouldn't be many reading it, and it would be extremely time-consuming (and take up a ton of space as well).

Jane
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