George DUCKELS
(1804-1807)
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Estimated Year of Birth: March 1804
Date of Death: April 1807
Age: 3 years
Grave No: 155
Latitude: 53.7206
Longitude: -0.85111
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Condition: Sound & in situ, but back and one side are very degraded.
Height (mm): 1208 mm
Width (mm): 904 mm
Thickness (mm): 80 mm
Left hand side:
Sacred /
TO /
THE MEMORY /
OF /
RICHARD DUCKELS, /
LATE OF HOOK, /
WHO DIED JULY 3rd 1834, /
AGED 59 YEARS.
Death hath me Summon'd /
and I must appear, /
Before the Bar of God /
My Doom to hear; /
Reader take Notice of /
this awful Text, /
If Death once seize thee /
Judgement is the next. /
ALSO OF GEORGE, SON /
OF THE ABOVE NAMED /
RICHARD AND ANN DUCKELS, /
WHO DIED IN HIS INFANCY. /
IN AFFECTIONATE /
REMEMBRANCE OF /
RICHARD DUCKELS. /
LATE OF HOOK. /
BORN FEBRUARY 6th 1803 /
DIED NOVEMBER 1st 1886.
Right hand side:
Sacred /
TO /
THE MEMORY /
OF /
ANN, WIFE OF THE SAID /
RICHARD DUCKELS, /
WHO DIED MARCH 28th 1831, /
AGED 56 YEARS /
Reader to meet they /
God prepare, /
In Jesus Christ place /
all thy trust; /
That of his Glory thou /
may'st share, /
When he shall raise /
our slumb'ring Dust.
George's inscription appears to have been altered. There is evidence that the mason originally wrote, "who died in her infancy", then changed HER to HIS!
Father: DUCKELS, Richard (1775-1834)
Brother: DUCKELS, Richard (1803-1886)
Mother: DUCKELS, Ann (1775-1831)
Richard Duckels - A Man of Property
Richard Duckels - A Man of Property
The following advertisement, which appeared in the Hull Advertiser on Friday, 26th December 1834, gives a good description of the extent of property owned by Richard Duckels at the time of his death.
HOOK, NEAR GOOLE.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
BY MR. ROBERT CHATTAM,
On Monday, the 22nd of December, 1834, at the Banks' Arms Hotel, in Goole, at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to such conditions as shall be then produced,
The following very Valuable PROPERTY, situate in the Township of Hook in the County of York, late the estate of Mr. Richard Duckels, deceased, in Lots as hereinafter mentioned, or as may be agreed upon at the time of Sale.
Lot 1. A MESSUAGE or FARM-HOUSE, with the Farmstead, Outbuildings, and Orchards or Crofts thereto adjoining, containing 1A.3R.20P., or thereabouts, lately occupied by the said Richard Duckels, and situate in the town of Hook.
Lot 2 HALL GARTH ... 4A.2R.28P.
3. SAMPLE CLOSE ... 8A.3R.38P.
4. TOMPITS HOLME CLOSE ... 14A.0R.36P.
5. MARSH FIELD CLOSE ... 6A. 2R. 0P.
6. LITTLE MARSH FIELD CLOSE ... 5A.2R.15P.
7. MURRAM LANE CLOSE ... 1A.2R.25P.
The above Premises are (with the exception of 3A.2R.34P., or thereabouts, part of Lot 4, which is Copyhold of the Manor of Hook, of Freehold Tenure.
Lots 3, 4, 5, and 7, are contiguous to the Port of Goole, and the last Lot is advantageously situate for building upon.
The Premises may be viewed on application to the AUCTIONEER, at Goole, and any further particulars may be obtained at the Offices in Goole or Howden of GEO.RAWDEN EARNSHAW, Solicitor
Howden, Nov. 17, 1834.
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