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Suffolk / Re: Bucke Family in and around Monk Soham
« on: Wednesday 07 August 24 14:42 BST (UK)  »
I tried to reply using the private message system but it did not work. First of all the website did not allow me to enter the name of the person who sent me the message; there was a choice of 3 Amy Bs. Then there was no obvious way of replying to the message. There was a 'send message' button but it was not clear what this this referred to as I had not typed out a message at this stage. Assuming that it referred to a new unwritten message I typed out a message and tried to send it, but then I receieved an error message and my laboriously typed message vanished into the ether.
Thus the reason for using my e-mail message.
I have removed my e-mail address 

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Suffolk / Re: Bucke Family in and around Monk Soham
« on: Wednesday 07 August 24 13:55 BST (UK)  »
Please could the Amy B who sent me, Terry Baker, a message about Bucke a few days ago contact me  I typed a reply but it disappeared into the ether when I tried to send it via this very user unfriendly website.
Thanks,
Terry

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Other Countries / Re: Nevis Island - west indies
« on: Friday 03 May 24 09:58 BST (UK)  »
George Bucke was 'Master and Examiner' of the Island of Nevis, but I am sorry that I do not know what that means. His occupation was an attorney.

In my earlier message I meant to say that Bertha Bucke married my ancestor Benjamin Baker (not Bucke). The 3 sons who emigrated to Nevis were Samuel Barnes Baker, Edwin Walter Baker amd Henry Wilkinson Baker.

Regards,

Terry

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Other Countries / Re: Nevis Island - west indies
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 21:06 BST (UK)  »
I know a lot about the Bucke family who emigrated from Bungay,Suffolk, England to Nevis. These were George Bucke and his brother Walter Lewis Bucke. Their sister Bertha Bucke married Benjamin Bucke, my 1st cousin 6 times removed. 3 of their sons emigrated to Nevis in 1816 & 1817 to join their uncle Walter Lewis Bucke who was working on the Bush Hill plantation St. John Figtree. See my tree on Ancestry entitled 'Baker families of Nevis Island, West Indies. Also see "The Mountravers Plantation Community" at https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/mountravers~part3chapter2.pdf

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Other Countries / Re: Antigua: The Wenham Sugar Plantation c. 1760
« on: Thursday 26 January 23 20:44 GMT (UK)  »
Martha Hamilton Baker [1833-1918] was the daughter of Henry Wilkinson Baker and Mary Susannah Wolfe Smith. Henry is my 2nd cousin 5 times removed. He was born in Bungay, Suffolk in 1804, one of 10 children of Benjamin Baker and Bertha Bucke. His tombstone is at St. John Figtree church, Nevis.
I recently discovered that 2 of his brothers Samuel Barnes Baker born 1802 and Edwin Walter Baker born 1803 also went to live in Nevis, possibly to help their mother's brother Walter Lewis Bucke who worked on the Bush Hill plantation near Figtree. All 3 of these brothers married and had children born in Nevis. It is reported (by Small & Eickelman) that Edwin Walter Baker was probably the manager of the Bush Hill estate in Nevis owned by the Forbes family from 1827-1836 and then purchased by his uncle Walter Lewis Bucke.
Terry Sancroft Baker

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Banffshire / Re: William Innes 17th century burial Nether Dallachy
« on: Tuesday 17 May 22 18:38 BST (UK)  »
Thank you David Pinkney for adding the very clear photo of the church memorial for Andrew Innys alias Innes. Is this memorial in St. John's church or chapel in Bristol?  The M.I. says that Andrew died on 29 Dec. 1723 in the 82nd year of his life, which gives his birth year as 1742.
His father William Innes has the letters A.M. after his name which was an earlier way of writing M.A. This suggests that he may have been a clergyman. However, info regarding his youngest daughter Martha, who married John Cossins of St. Paul's churchyard London, who retired to Bristol and built Redland Court, shows that members of the the Innys/Innes family had a stationers business in or around St. John's churchyard as well as in Bristol. If Andrew's father William was one of these (quite likely) Wiliam may have been buried in London, possibly at St. Faith's under St. Paul's.
In addition to using the peerage.com I have also used the subscription site Stirnet Genealogy. This also shows that this branch of the Innes family are descended from King James V of Scotland and one of his mistresses Margaret Erskine.
I also use Ancestry and Find My Past, but have only done a little so far vai Ancestry. Find baptisms for the Innys family has so far proved to be elusive.

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