1861 Census, Samuel Duckering, working as an apprentince physician surgeon to William Robb.

1863 Medical Times and Gazette - Medical News April 18, 1863 (page) 409 - ’Apothecaries’ Hall. Names of gentlemen who passed their Examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to Practise, on Thursday, April 9, 1863:- then follows 6 names. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their First Examination:- Samuel Duckering, Sheffield; ..’

1865 ‘Indian Medical Service, page 471, 946. Duckering, Samuel. b. 12 Sept. 1840, Sheffield. L.S.A. 1863. M.R.C.S. 1864. A.S. 1 Apr. 1865. Surg. i July 1873. R. 21 May 1874. d. 12 Apr. 1922.’

3 Oct 1865 London Gazette: ‘To Be Assistant Surgeons: Samuel Duckering. Dated 31st March, 1865.’

Retired 21 March 1874.

1881 Census, Samuel Duckering, Surgeon HM Indian (Off) Army Retired MRCS Lond LSA Lond Not Practising

1891 Census, Samuel Duckering, Surgeon & Apothy Regd Retired, Fruit Grower Poultry Keeper

The Medical Register for 1899, page 496, ‘Duckering, Samuel, 9 Theodore Terrace, Margate Road, Ramsgate, date and place of registration 1865, Jan 19 S., Qualifications Lic. Soc. Apoth. Lond., 1863, Mem. R. Coll. Surg. Eng., 1864’

1901 Census, Samuel Duckering, Surgeons: Bombay. Samuel Duckering. Dated 31st March 1865.’

1911 Census Samuel Duckering, Surgeon Retired India Army Medical Practitioner

Thanet Advertiser, 9 April 1925. Duckeering. In loving memory of my dear husband, Surgeon-Major S. Duckering, Bombay Medical Corps, who died April 12th, 1922. From his sorrowing wife.

Thanet Advertiser, 22 April 1922. Men and Affairs. Notes and Comments. The death of Mr S Duckering removes from the St Luke’s parish of Ramsgate a well-known figure. For the greater part of half a century he had been a more or less unofficial practitioner amongst the poor people, his title to practice medicine being derived from service withe the Bombay Medical Corps in the middle ? period. In the Indian service he held the rank of Surgeon-Major and retired comparatively early in life. For some years he lived in one of thee houses that are now part of the masters’ quarters of St LAwrence College, where he was more interested in the cultivation of poultry tahn in the practice of medicine. But having taken under his control one or two patients his practice grew and a few years ago he was the cheap doctor of the neighbourhood. He was in his eighty-second year at the time of his death.

'WILL Jany 1922 I SAMUEL DUCKERING Surgeon 9 Theodore Terrace, Margate Road, Ramsgate do hereby will and bequeath all my property of whatsoever kind I may be possessed at my decease to my dear wife Lilian Duckering absolutely and she shall be SOLE EXECUTRIX - S DUCKERING - Witness LUCY MARY KNIGHT- LOUISA WILLIAMS

Affidavit of due execution on the 11th January 1922 filed. On the 8th day of June 1922 Probate of this will was granted to Lilian Duckering the sole executrix.' (See file for copy)

'Samuel of 9 Theodore Terrace, Margate Road, Ramsgate died 12 April 1922. Probate to Lilian Duckering widow. Effects £4308 0s 2d.' (Michael) I have assumed that Samuel and Lilian had no children, as there is no reference to any in either of their wills.

'Lilian of 9 Theodore Terrace, Margate Road, Ramsgate widow, died 27 October 1926. Probate to Henry Roland Harding bank manager and John Henry Robinson solicitor. Effects £5041 19s 2d.(Michael)

'THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me LILIAN DUCKERING of 9 Theodore Terrace, Margate Road, Ramsgate in the County of Kent, widow. I hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions made by me. I appoint Henry Roland Harding of 49 High Street, Ramsgate in the County of Kent, Bank Manager and John Henry Robinson of 23 Cavendish Street, Ramsgate in the County of Kent, Solicitor to be EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES Of this my will (here in after called "my trustees") I give to the said Henry Roland Harding the sum of seventy five pounds free of duty as a small acknowledgement of his trouble in providing and acting in the trusts of this my will I give devise and bequeath all my property whatsoever and wheresoever to my trustees Upon trust to sell, call in and convert the same into money with power to postpone such sale and conversion of any of my property whether of a wasting nature or not for such time as they shall in their absolute discretion think fit without being answerable for loss and with and out of my ready money and the proceeds of such sale calling in and conversion to pay my just debts and funeral and testamentary expense and to stand possessed of the balance Upon trust to invest the same in any investment of trust funds with power to vary such investments at their discretion and to pay the income arising from my trust estate whether before or after the conversion and reinvestment thereof to my sister Elizabeth Reed Boulton of 16 Clifton Bank, Rotherham in the County of Yorkshire the wife of John Henry Boulton during her life and from and after her death Upon trust to pay to the said John Henry Boulton the sum of one hundred pounds free of all death duties and to his son Hubert Arthur Boulton the sum of one hundred pounds free of all death duties and to divide the balance of the capital of my estate between my niece and three grand nieces Janet Spencer, Joyce Spencer, Kitty Spencer and Joan Spencer all of Northwood Benton, Newcastle on Tyne or such of them as shall be living at my death in equal shares and I hereby declare that the said John Henry Robinson or other the trustee of this my will for the time being who may be a solicitor shall be entitled to charge and receive his usual and proper charges for all work done in connection with my estate whether of the nature strictly requiring the employment of a Solicitor or not in the same manner as if he were not a Trustee or Executor of my will and were employed to be such work IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have set my hand to this my will this twenty second day of May one thousand nine hundred and twenty two - L DUCKERING - Signed by the testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses - K E SMITH Clerk to Robinson & Allfree Solrs, Ramsgate - C M DARBY Clerk to Robinson & All free Solrs Ramsgate-'

There are two codicils attached to the will in which gifts to John Robinson is increased to £75 and £50 is given to Richard Archibald. (See copy on file)

1869. Marriage solemnized at Old St Pancras in the parish of Old St Pancras in the county of Middlesex, no. 72. Sepr 1 1869, Samuel Duckering, full age, bachelor, Surgeon, residing 8 Mary, Islington, father dead. Lilian Wright, full age, spinster, residing 8 Pancras, father dead. Married in the parish church according to the rites and ceremonies of the established church by licence by me W M Arrowsmith. This marriage was solemnized between us S Duckering, Lilian Wright in the presence of us ? Robertson, Lizzie Wright.

Note Samuel’s father did not die unto 1870.

Army and Navy Gazette, 11 September 1869. Duckering-Wright. September 1, at Old St Pancras, Samuel Duckering, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon H.M.’s Indian Army, to Lilian, daughter of the late John Wright, of Rotherham.