Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameThomas Clarke DUCKERING 
, 2245
, 2245Baptism11 June 1884, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England5334 Age: <1
Census5 April 1891, Hill Lodge, Nook, Barrow Upon Trent, Derbyshire, England1940 Age: 7
Census2 April 1911, 34 Wolfa Street, Derby, Derbyshire, England1936 Age: 27
Census29 September 1939, 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover, Derbyshire, England5335 Age: 55
Death1969, Registered Derby, Derbyshire, England5336 Age: 84
FatherWilliam DUCKERING , 950 (1845-1939)
MotherJane CLAY , 1083 (1843-1921)
Spouses
1Annie WARD 5338, 2246
5338, 2246Birth28 January 1883, England5339
Baptism13 May 1883, Holy Trinity Church, Poulton-le-Sands, Lancaster, England5340 Age: <1
Census2 April 1911, 46 Bateman Street, Derby, Derbyshire, England5341 Age: 28
Census29 September 1939, 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover, Derbyshire, England5335 Age: 56
Death1975, Registered Derby, Derbyshire, England5342 Age: 91
FatherRichard George WARD , 5026 (1847-1918)
MotherMargaret GREENE , 5027 (1846-1887)
ChildrenDorothy May , 2247 (1912-)
Margaret Mary , 2249 (1922-1998)
Notes for Thomas Clarke DUCKERING
The GRO Online index records Thomas Clark mother maiden name as CLARK, yet he appears on the Census records as the son of William & Jane.? Jane’s father was called Clark Clay - so suspect there as been a typo.
Army Form B 178, To be used for recruits enlisting direct into the Regular Army only. Army, Form B, 178 to be used for Special Reserve recruits and Special Reservists enlisitng into the Regular Army. Medical History of surname Duckering, Christain Name Thomas Clarke examined 5th November 1914 at Derby, declared age 30 years 9 months, height 5 feet 5 1/2 inches, Chest, girth when fully expanded 40 inches, range of expansion 2 1/2 inches, Physical Development fit, RE & LE fit, Approved by (Sgd) W St A St John, Medical Officer. Enlisted at Derby on 5th November 1914, Joined on Enlistment 54th Battn. Noots & Derbyshire Regt, Regt. No. 3373. (Reverse side) Statement of the Services of No 348 Name Duckering, Thomas Clarke. Service towards limited engagement reckons from 15-2-01, joined at Derby on 15-2-01, Derby Yeomanry Attested pte 15-2-01, Discharged (? & expired) Sat 15-2-08 Certified true extract from ?? (See copies on file).
Casualty Form-Active Service, regimental number 3373, regiment or corps 2/5 Notts & Derbys, Rank CQMS, Duckering, Thomas Clarke, Church of England age 30 years 9 months. Enlisted 5/11/14. Terms of service 4 years. Date of promotion to present rank 31.12.14. Qualification Transport Sergt. Occupation Clerk. embarked Ston 24.2.17 Disembarked Havre 26.2.17. Confirmed sub rank 26.2.17. 30.7.17 Granted ad. pay as ? Acct. 14 days 30th June to 13th July 1917.
30.9.17 Leave to England 30th Sept 1917
9.2.18 Granted Ad. pay as ? acc 6 ? ? 31 days 31.1.18
16.2.18 App’d ? (Paid) ? orange with pay from 29.2.17
21.2.18 Promoted C/Sgt and confirmed in App’t of ? Service Orange 29.12.17
9.8.18 Posted to 1/5th Sherwood Foresters 6.8.18 - See copy on file
Postcard of Thomas Clarke DUCKERING, Nottinghamshire & Derby 1/5ht 200999, CQMS - served 5th Nov 1914 to 20th March 1919. (Ebay June 2016)
Medical Report on a Soldier Boarded Prior to Discharge or Transfer to Class W., W. (T), P., or P. (T), of the Resrve.
1. Unit 1/5th Notts & Derby, 2. regt no. 200999, 3. Rank CQthS., 4. Duckering, Thomas Clarke, 5. Age 35, 6. Posted for duty on 5/11/12 at Derby. 7. Former trade Railway Clerk, 7a. If the soldier claims previous service in Army, he should state:- a) Former Regts. Derbyshire Yeomanry 348, b) Date of Discharge 1907, c) Cause of discharge - time expired, d) Particulars of Pension or Gratuity (if any) - none. 8. If the disability is an injury wass it caused (while in the army) - N.A.. 9. If a court of inquiry was held on injury state:- N.A.. Statement of Case. 10. If brought forward for invaliding, disability in respect of which invaliding is proposed to be stated here. Varicose Veins. 11. Date of disability - 1911. 12. Place of origin of disability - Derby. 13. Give concisely the essential facts of the history of the disabiity in so far as it is recorded in the Medical History sheet bearing on the case and in other relevant official documents. States varicose veins first appeared at above date. No doc’y evidence. 14. State whether the disabilities are a) Attritutable to b) Aggravated by - i) Service during the present war - Yes. 14a. If not to any of these causes, to what specific condition do you attribute it? - Constitutional. 15. What is the present condition? States right foot swells after much standing: nightlly aches after walking. 16. Was an operation performed? No. 17. If not, was an operation advised and declined? No. 18. N.A.. 19. N.A.. 20) Do you recommend: - a) Discharge as pemanently unfit? ticked. Signed by Medical Officer in charge of case Derby 21/8/19. Opinion of the Medical Board. 21. Give diagnosis and particulars of :- a) Any disability claimed or discovered. Varicose veins. b). The present condition thereof. Moderate varicose veins of right leg, extending to middle of righ thigh. 22. State whether the disabilities are a) Attritutable to b) Aggravated by - i) Service during the present war - Yes. 22a. If not due to any of these causes, to what specific condition do the Board attribute it? Constitutional. 23. Is the disbility in a final stationary condition? No. If not a). How long is the present degree of disbaility likely to last? Six months. b) If the present degree of disability is not likely to last 12 months can a further assessment at a reduced rate be made with reasonable confidence to cover as period of 12 months in all? etc… No. Signed. 24a. Waht is the degree of disability etc.. 20 (twenty)%. b. Evidence of disability on entryetc.. Nil crossed out 1(one)%. 25. N.A. 26a. Do the board recommend discharge as physically unfit for further War service, i.e. do they place him in Grade IV only? Grade III. b). & c). N.A. 27. Do the board find that the soldier has sufferd any impairment in health since his entry into the service? Yes. 28. Is treatment being recommended on Army FormA.36. C.B. Yes. 29. Does the soildier require? No. Signed by President or Chairman of the Board, Station Derby No. 1, 21.8.19. See four pages on file.
Thomas C Duckering, 200999, Notts & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment, 5th Battalion, Rank CSM, Military Medal (Ancestry: British Army Recipients of the Military Medal).
Thomas in his sister's will, Lizzie, is referred to as a 'Retired Railway Clerk' - 1952. See copy of will on file. (Michael 22.3.97)
Derby Daily Telegraph, 17 December 1969. Retired railway official dies. Mr Thomas Clarke Duckering of 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover, who retired in 1946 after 47 years in the Chief Accountant’s DSepartment of the Midland and LMS Railways, has died at 85.
For many years he was a member of the governing body of the Railway Institute, and a keen sportsman who played for the Midland Cricket Club and St Andrew’s football team.
He enlisted in the Derbyshire Yeomanry in 1901, and in 1914 volunteered for the Sherwood Foresters, in which he served 4 1/2 years. He reached the rank of C.Q.M.S. and was awarded the Military Medal.
During thee 1939-45 War he joined the Home Guard and was promoted sergeant.
Mr Duckering leaves a widow and two married daughters.
'This is the last Will and Testament of me THOMAS CLARKE DUCKERING of 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover in the County of Derby, Retired Railway Clerk.'
'1. I REVOKE all Wills and testamentary dispositions here to foremade by me. 2. I APPOINT my son-in-law John Longdon of 10 Lawrence Street in the County Borough of Derby and my daughter Margaret Mary Bates of 56 Derby Road, Borrowash in the said County of Derby the wifeo f Harold Bates (who and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will are here in after called "my Trustees") to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will. 3. I GIVE the following specific and pecuniary legacies free of all duties namely:-(a) To my daughter Dorothy May Longdon if she shall survive me the sum of Two hundred pounds.
(b) To my said daughter Margaret Mary Bates for her own absolute use and benefit if she shall survive me the sum of Two hundred pounds.
(c) To my granddaughter Gillian Margaret Bates if she shall survive me the sum of Twenty pounds and I declare that if at the date of my death she shall not have attained the age of twenty one years then the receipt of her parent or guardian shall be a full discharge to my Trustees.
(d) To my grandson Philip Michael Bates if he shall survive me all my War Medals and the sum of Twenty pounds and I declare that if at the date of my death he shall not have attained the age of twenty one years then the receipt of his parent or guardian shall be a full discharge to my Trustees.4. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all real and personal estate not here by otherwise disposed of and over which I may have any power of disposition at the time of my death unto my Trustees Upon trust that my Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money (with power never the less for my Trustees to postpone such sale calling in and converson of the whole or any part of my real and personal estate for so long as they shall in their absolute discretion think fit and without being liable for any loss occasioned thereby) and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with andout of my ready money pay my funeral and testaemnetary expenses and debts and the legacies bequeathed by this Will or any Codicil hereto and shall stand possessed of the clear residue of the said moneys and of all parts of my estate for the time being remaining unsold or unconverted Upon trust for mywife Annie Duckering absolutely if she shall survive me and if my said wife shall predecease me then Upon trust for my said daughters Dorothy May Longdon and Margaret Mary Bates in equal shares or if only one of them shall survive me then (subject to the proviso next here in after contained) for such one absolutely and beneficially. 5. PROVIDED ALWAYS and I hereby DIRECT that if my said daughters or either of them shall die in my life time leaving a child or children who shall survive me and attain the age of twenty one years such child or children shall take and if more than one equally between the many benefit which his her or their parent would have taken under this my Will if such parent had survived me.
6. NOTWITHSTANDING the foregoing trust for sale I DIRECT that nosale shall be made of the dwelling house in which I shall be residing at the time of my death during the life time of my said wife without her consent in writing and that until the sale thereof my Trustees shall permit my said wife to occupy the same rent free for so long as she shall desire she keeping the samein good tenantable repair and insured against fire in the joint names of my Trustees. to the full insurable value thereof and discharging all rates taxes assessments and other outgoings payable in repect thereof.
IN WITNESS whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament subscribed my name this sixteenth day of April One thousand nine hundred and sixty four. ''SIGNED by the said Testator Thomas Clarke Duckering as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:-'
Various signatures - see copy of Will on file. (Michael)
Army Form B 178, To be used for recruits enlisting direct into the Regular Army only. Army, Form B, 178 to be used for Special Reserve recruits and Special Reservists enlisitng into the Regular Army. Medical History of surname Duckering, Christain Name Thomas Clarke examined 5th November 1914 at Derby, declared age 30 years 9 months, height 5 feet 5 1/2 inches, Chest, girth when fully expanded 40 inches, range of expansion 2 1/2 inches, Physical Development fit, RE & LE fit, Approved by (Sgd) W St A St John, Medical Officer. Enlisted at Derby on 5th November 1914, Joined on Enlistment 54th Battn. Noots & Derbyshire Regt, Regt. No. 3373. (Reverse side) Statement of the Services of No 348 Name Duckering, Thomas Clarke. Service towards limited engagement reckons from 15-2-01, joined at Derby on 15-2-01, Derby Yeomanry Attested pte 15-2-01, Discharged (? & expired) Sat 15-2-08 Certified true extract from ?? (See copies on file).
Casualty Form-Active Service, regimental number 3373, regiment or corps 2/5 Notts & Derbys, Rank CQMS, Duckering, Thomas Clarke, Church of England age 30 years 9 months. Enlisted 5/11/14. Terms of service 4 years. Date of promotion to present rank 31.12.14. Qualification Transport Sergt. Occupation Clerk. embarked Ston 24.2.17 Disembarked Havre 26.2.17. Confirmed sub rank 26.2.17. 30.7.17 Granted ad. pay as ? Acct. 14 days 30th June to 13th July 1917.
30.9.17 Leave to England 30th Sept 1917
9.2.18 Granted Ad. pay as ? acc 6 ? ? 31 days 31.1.18
16.2.18 App’d ? (Paid) ? orange with pay from 29.2.17
21.2.18 Promoted C/Sgt and confirmed in App’t of ? Service Orange 29.12.17
9.8.18 Posted to 1/5th Sherwood Foresters 6.8.18 - See copy on file
Postcard of Thomas Clarke DUCKERING, Nottinghamshire & Derby 1/5ht 200999, CQMS - served 5th Nov 1914 to 20th March 1919. (Ebay June 2016)
Medical Report on a Soldier Boarded Prior to Discharge or Transfer to Class W., W. (T), P., or P. (T), of the Resrve.
1. Unit 1/5th Notts & Derby, 2. regt no. 200999, 3. Rank CQthS., 4. Duckering, Thomas Clarke, 5. Age 35, 6. Posted for duty on 5/11/12 at Derby. 7. Former trade Railway Clerk, 7a. If the soldier claims previous service in Army, he should state:- a) Former Regts. Derbyshire Yeomanry 348, b) Date of Discharge 1907, c) Cause of discharge - time expired, d) Particulars of Pension or Gratuity (if any) - none. 8. If the disability is an injury wass it caused (while in the army) - N.A.. 9. If a court of inquiry was held on injury state:- N.A.. Statement of Case. 10. If brought forward for invaliding, disability in respect of which invaliding is proposed to be stated here. Varicose Veins. 11. Date of disability - 1911. 12. Place of origin of disability - Derby. 13. Give concisely the essential facts of the history of the disabiity in so far as it is recorded in the Medical History sheet bearing on the case and in other relevant official documents. States varicose veins first appeared at above date. No doc’y evidence. 14. State whether the disabilities are a) Attritutable to b) Aggravated by - i) Service during the present war - Yes. 14a. If not to any of these causes, to what specific condition do you attribute it? - Constitutional. 15. What is the present condition? States right foot swells after much standing: nightlly aches after walking. 16. Was an operation performed? No. 17. If not, was an operation advised and declined? No. 18. N.A.. 19. N.A.. 20) Do you recommend: - a) Discharge as pemanently unfit? ticked. Signed by Medical Officer in charge of case Derby 21/8/19. Opinion of the Medical Board. 21. Give diagnosis and particulars of :- a) Any disability claimed or discovered. Varicose veins. b). The present condition thereof. Moderate varicose veins of right leg, extending to middle of righ thigh. 22. State whether the disabilities are a) Attritutable to b) Aggravated by - i) Service during the present war - Yes. 22a. If not due to any of these causes, to what specific condition do the Board attribute it? Constitutional. 23. Is the disbility in a final stationary condition? No. If not a). How long is the present degree of disbaility likely to last? Six months. b) If the present degree of disability is not likely to last 12 months can a further assessment at a reduced rate be made with reasonable confidence to cover as period of 12 months in all? etc… No. Signed. 24a. Waht is the degree of disability etc.. 20 (twenty)%. b. Evidence of disability on entryetc.. Nil crossed out 1(one)%. 25. N.A. 26a. Do the board recommend discharge as physically unfit for further War service, i.e. do they place him in Grade IV only? Grade III. b). & c). N.A. 27. Do the board find that the soldier has sufferd any impairment in health since his entry into the service? Yes. 28. Is treatment being recommended on Army FormA.36. C.B. Yes. 29. Does the soildier require? No. Signed by President or Chairman of the Board, Station Derby No. 1, 21.8.19. See four pages on file.
Thomas C Duckering, 200999, Notts & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment, 5th Battalion, Rank CSM, Military Medal (Ancestry: British Army Recipients of the Military Medal).
Thomas in his sister's will, Lizzie, is referred to as a 'Retired Railway Clerk' - 1952. See copy of will on file. (Michael 22.3.97)
Derby Daily Telegraph, 17 December 1969. Retired railway official dies. Mr Thomas Clarke Duckering of 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover, who retired in 1946 after 47 years in the Chief Accountant’s DSepartment of the Midland and LMS Railways, has died at 85.
For many years he was a member of the governing body of the Railway Institute, and a keen sportsman who played for the Midland Cricket Club and St Andrew’s football team.
He enlisted in the Derbyshire Yeomanry in 1901, and in 1914 volunteered for the Sherwood Foresters, in which he served 4 1/2 years. He reached the rank of C.Q.M.S. and was awarded the Military Medal.
During thee 1939-45 War he joined the Home Guard and was promoted sergeant.
Mr Duckering leaves a widow and two married daughters.
'This is the last Will and Testament of me THOMAS CLARKE DUCKERING of 26 Mostyn Avenue, Littleover in the County of Derby, Retired Railway Clerk.'
'1. I REVOKE all Wills and testamentary dispositions here to foremade by me. 2. I APPOINT my son-in-law John Longdon of 10 Lawrence Street in the County Borough of Derby and my daughter Margaret Mary Bates of 56 Derby Road, Borrowash in the said County of Derby the wifeo f Harold Bates (who and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will are here in after called "my Trustees") to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will. 3. I GIVE the following specific and pecuniary legacies free of all duties namely:-(a) To my daughter Dorothy May Longdon if she shall survive me the sum of Two hundred pounds.
(b) To my said daughter Margaret Mary Bates for her own absolute use and benefit if she shall survive me the sum of Two hundred pounds.
(c) To my granddaughter Gillian Margaret Bates if she shall survive me the sum of Twenty pounds and I declare that if at the date of my death she shall not have attained the age of twenty one years then the receipt of her parent or guardian shall be a full discharge to my Trustees.
(d) To my grandson Philip Michael Bates if he shall survive me all my War Medals and the sum of Twenty pounds and I declare that if at the date of my death he shall not have attained the age of twenty one years then the receipt of his parent or guardian shall be a full discharge to my Trustees.4. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all real and personal estate not here by otherwise disposed of and over which I may have any power of disposition at the time of my death unto my Trustees Upon trust that my Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money (with power never the less for my Trustees to postpone such sale calling in and converson of the whole or any part of my real and personal estate for so long as they shall in their absolute discretion think fit and without being liable for any loss occasioned thereby) and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with andout of my ready money pay my funeral and testaemnetary expenses and debts and the legacies bequeathed by this Will or any Codicil hereto and shall stand possessed of the clear residue of the said moneys and of all parts of my estate for the time being remaining unsold or unconverted Upon trust for mywife Annie Duckering absolutely if she shall survive me and if my said wife shall predecease me then Upon trust for my said daughters Dorothy May Longdon and Margaret Mary Bates in equal shares or if only one of them shall survive me then (subject to the proviso next here in after contained) for such one absolutely and beneficially. 5. PROVIDED ALWAYS and I hereby DIRECT that if my said daughters or either of them shall die in my life time leaving a child or children who shall survive me and attain the age of twenty one years such child or children shall take and if more than one equally between the many benefit which his her or their parent would have taken under this my Will if such parent had survived me.
6. NOTWITHSTANDING the foregoing trust for sale I DIRECT that nosale shall be made of the dwelling house in which I shall be residing at the time of my death during the life time of my said wife without her consent in writing and that until the sale thereof my Trustees shall permit my said wife to occupy the same rent free for so long as she shall desire she keeping the samein good tenantable repair and insured against fire in the joint names of my Trustees. to the full insurable value thereof and discharging all rates taxes assessments and other outgoings payable in repect thereof.
IN WITNESS whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament subscribed my name this sixteenth day of April One thousand nine hundred and sixty four. ''SIGNED by the said Testator Thomas Clarke Duckering as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:-'
Various signatures - see copy of Will on file. (Michael)
Notes for Thomas Clarke & Annie (Family)
Page 2 1911. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the parish of St Andrew’s, Derby in the County of Derby, no. 3. July 31st 1911 Thomas Clarke Duckering, 27, bachelor, Railway Clerk, residing 34 Wolfa Street, father William Duckering, Coachman. Annie Ward, 28, spinster, shop assistant, residing 36 Bateman Street, father Richard George Ward, retired railway official. Married in the parish chirch according to the rites and ceremonies of the established church after banns by me G P Procyor, Curate. This marriage was solemnized between us Thomas Clarke Duckering, Annie Ward in the presence of us George Tomlinson, Margaret Mary Ward.