f
The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
John Duke, maker of cricket bats and balls
Printer friendly version
Date
Type
Information
Source
 
1831
Born
In the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
c 1855
Married
Frances
 
 
1859
Birth of a son
Timothy in the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
1861
Birth of a son
John in the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
1862
Birth of a son
Harry in the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
1865
Birth of a daughter
Fanny in the Parish of Penshurst, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
1876
Birth of a daughter
Bertha in the Parish of Chiddingstone, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
1878
Birth of a daughter
Edith in the Parish of Chiddingstone, Kent
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
3rd April 1881
Census
At Causeway Cottage in the Parish of Chiddingstone, Kent; John Duke, M, Head, married, age 50, born Penshurst, Kent, employs 72 men and 1 boy; occupation: maker of cricket bats and balls
1881 Census
Chiddingstone, Kent
 
The Tonbridge area was the principle place in the country where cricket bats and balls were made and the Duke family of Penshurst and Chiddingstone employed at one time about 100 people. More detail can be found in “Quilt Winders and Pod Shavers” by Hugh Barty-King. The maps of Tonbridge and Southborough showing the location of the bat and ball factories, indicate what a large part of the local economy it was before over the years they slowly consolidated. The “Duke ball” is still used in Test matches in this country although it is no longer made by Dukes, and L J Nicolls cricket bats is now Gray-Nicolls International.

No ancestor's report
Descendent's report
Duke individual records
The ancestral pedigree of John Duke, maker of cricket bats and balls
  
 John Duke
maker of cricket bats and balls
m: c 1855Frances 
 b: 1831 Penshurst, Kent  b: 1835 Penshurst, Kent 
  
      
 Timothy John Harry Fanny Bertha Edith
 b: 1859 Penshurst, Kent b: 1861 Penshurst, Kent b: 1862 Penshurst, Kent b: 1865 Penshurst, Kent b: 1876 Chiddingstone, Kent b: 1878 Chiddingstone, Kent
       
Family
record

The Weald is at  Database version 14.05 which has ongoing updates to the 395,000 people; 9,000 places; 613 maps; 3,308 pictures, engravings and photographs; and 248 books loaded in the previous version

ODNB  
British Libarary  
High Weald  
Sussex Record Society  
Sussex Archaeological Society  
Kent Archaeological Society  
Mid Kent Marriages  
Ancestry  
Genes Reunited  
International Genealogical Index  
National Archives  

Top
of the
page