1878 Pig Advertisement talks to the fourty-four years of being successful exhibitors at all principal shows throughout Europe and. Great Britain, having won many prizes, in fact 2,226. This is effectively Henry’s father Richard’s legacy. See advert.

Albert, Henry's brother, wrote to William who had emigrated to the USA, Harry 'who was home again from the hospital, feeling first rate and going to the market as usual'.

The information source for Henry refers to his father being a 'publican'. (LA 0414 006 01A)

'This is the last Will of me Henry Duckering of 125 Morton Terrace Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln retired farmer.
1 I revoke all other Wills and testamentary dispositions by me heretofore made
2 I appoint my nephew Edward Elmhirst Duckering (son of my brother Frederic Duckering) of Kirton-in-Lindsey in the Countyof Lincoln and Eric Dyson of Gainsborough aforesaid solicitor Executors and Trustees of this my Will.
3 I declare that the expression my Trustees shall in this my Will and in any and every Codicil hereto save where such interpretation is precluded by the context include the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this Will.
4 I desire to be buried at Northorpe in the County of Lincoln and I direct my Trustees to erect on my grave at the cost of my estate a gravestone and kerb of marble with a suitable inscription thereon.
5 I request my Trustees to see that the graves and gravestones of my Father and Mother and three sisters in the Churchyard at Northorpe aforesaid are in good order and repair and the lettering on such gravestones legible and if it be found that this is not so then to attend to order and repair thereof and tothe re-cutting of the lettering and I hereby authorise my Trustees to spend a sum of money up to but not exceeding Fifty pounds for that purpose.
6 I bequeath the following pecuniary legacies free of duty (a) To the said Edward Elmhirst Duckering the sum of One hundred pounds (b) To my niece Mollie Barker (daughter of my brother Albert Duckering) the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds (c) To each of my nieces Florence Duckering, Lilian Duckering and Eleanor Duckering the sum of One hundred and fifity pounds (d) To my niece Mrs Amy Brown the sum of One hundred pounds and to my nephew Bertie Duckering the sum of Fifty pounds (e) To my friend Mrs Woolsey of Kilnhurst the sum of Fifty pounds (f) To Mrs Maud Mather (niece of the late Mrs Jane Thorpe) the sum of One hundred pounds and to Mrs Irene Pond and Mrs Ethel Holland (nieces of the said Jane Thorpe) thesum of Fifty pounds each (g) To the John Coupland Memorial Hospital Gainsborough aforesaid the sum of Fifty pounds and I declare that the receipt of the person who professes to be the Treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of the said Hospital shall be a complete discharge to my Trustees (h)To my sister Amelia Duckering of 9 Imperial Square, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire the sum of One hundred pounds. (i) To my great-nephew John Duckering (son of my nephew Charles Duckeringo f Northorpe) the sum of Fifty pounds.
7 Subject thereto I devise and bequeath all my estate and effects both real and personal unto my Trustees upon trust that my Trustees shall sell, call in and convert into money such parts thereof as shall not consist of money. And out of the moneys arising from such sale calling in and conversion and all other moneys arising from or forming part of my residuary estate pay the expenses incidental to the execution of the preceding trust and my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses. Andall duties payable in respect of my death whether legacy duty, succession duty, estate duty or other duty now in force or atany time before my death imposed. And also all duties (if any) payable in respect of property of which I have disposed during the last three years of my life. And in the next place to pay the pecuniary legacies herein before bequeathed. And to stand possessed of the surplus of the said moneys and of all parts ofmy said estate for the time being unsold upon trust as to both capital and income for such of my nephews and nieces or great nephews or great nieces to whom I have bequeathed a legacyeither specific or pecuniary by this my Will or by any Codicil hereto who shall be living at the time of my death in equal shares as tenants in common. Provided nevertheless that in case any such nephews or nieces or great nephews or great nieces havedied or shall die in my life time leaving issue living at my death who shall attain the age of Twenty-one years, such issue shall take and if more than one equally between them the share which their his or her parent would have taken of and in my residuary estate if such parent had lived to attained a vested interest.
8 I declare that my Trustees shall have a discretionary power to postpone for such period as to them shall seem expedient thesale calling in or conversion of any parts of my real or personal estate but the unsold real estate and the outstanding personal estate shall be subject to the trusts hereinbefore contained and the unsold real estate shall be deemed to be converted as from the time of my death and be transmissable as personal estate accordingly.
9 Any Trustee being a solicitor or person engaged in any profession or business may be so employed or act and shall be entitled to be paid all usual professional or proper charges for any business transacted, time expended and acts done by him orhis firm in connection with the trusts hereof including acts which a trustee not being in any profession or business couldhave done personally. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this seventeenth day of November One thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.'
'Signed by the above-named Testator as his last Will in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other subscribe our names as witnesses H DUCKERING the words "and to" in the second line of Clause 6 (f) and theword "from" in the fourth line of Clause 7 hereof having first been inserted.'F.E Wiltsher ) Clerks to Messrs Burton & Dyson) E. L. Pemberton) Solicitors Gainsborough'
There are then five Codicils, changing some of the legacies.
'On the 25th day of May 1940 Probate of this Will with five Codicils thereto was granted at Lincoln to the Executors named in the Will.'

Probate. 'Henry Duckering of 125 Morton Terrace, Gainsborough died 24th March 11940 at Kirton in Lindsey, Lincs. Probate to Edward Elmhirst Duckering corn and coal merchant and Eric Dyson solicitor. Effects £3301 10s. (Michael)