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Family tradition is that our ancestor was Robert Duke of Newpark, Sligo, Ireland who died about 1677. Many Dukes came to live and work in Barbados including many of the children of Mansergh Pace Duke. |
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Mansergh Pace Duke had 11 children MP Duke was a doctor in Dublin where he was married and had three girls, Elmina, Frances and Muriel. After his first wife died he decided to become a missionary doctor in the West Indies. He left his daughters in Dublin and travelled to Montserrat where he met and married his second wife Emily WILKIN. Mansergh Valentine Duke 1894-19?? Mansergh was the first son of Mansergh Pace and Emily DUKE. Mansergh Val's [1896?-19] daughter Angela married Eric Inglesby and they had three children- Richard, Kate and David. “Uncle Vanty” was a naval officer in the war ending as a Captain (S) in the secretarial division. He died some years after being adrift in a sail boat for many days on his own off Singapore. |
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Col Duke. June 1943 |
Col.Duke MM MBE 1898-1975 Oriel St.Arnaud Duke was the second son of Mansergh Pace and Emily DUKE. He was known by the family as "Konks". During the First World War he volunteered (although he was too young) and was a Lance Corporal in 10 Battalion Royal Fusiliers when he was awarded the M.M. & BAR. He ended the war as a sergeant. He returned to the West Indies and joined the police in the Leeward Islands. The M.B.E. was presented by the Administration of Dominica 1st January 1932 for quelling a riot. At this time Konks was Inspector of Police Dominica, Leeward Islands. He was posted to Barbados in 1939 and as the commandant of local forces during WWII. He was retired in 1948/49 following an inquiry into a major fire in Bridgetown. Konks supported the Fire Officer against the allegations made by the Colonial Secretary (ie no 2 on the island). He then worked in a department store (Harrison’s) in Bridgetown until the 1950s (1955). |
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| Sybil Bolton 1898-1982 Sybil was the daughter of Mansergh Pace and Emily DUKE. She married Pax Bolton a cleric who was sent from England to Antigua in the British West Indies about 1910. They were married about 1923 in Antigua. They had three children born in Dominica, Peggy (m. 1. Abercromby 2. Clayton), Rosemary (m. Warren) and Michael (m. Audrey Charles). |
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Ina Aileen Gall 1900-1970 Aileen was the daughter of Mansergh Pace and Emily DUKE. She worked in the Royal Canadian Bank in Antigua until she married Henry Beckles Douglas GALL. They had two daughters- Cynthia and Claire. The family came to live in Barbados from Dominica in 1936 on the retirement of her husband. They lived first at the Pavillion and then The Garrison outside Bridgetown. She was buried in the Gall family vault at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Bridgetown. |
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| William Duke 1901-1943 William was unmarried. He was an estate overseer in Antigua. After loosing his job and he returned to his mother’s home. He moved to Nevis and then St Kitts, where he died in a fire in which his home was destroyed. |
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| Ismay Winter 1902-1978 Ismay married Clifford George WINTER a banker. They had a daughter Ann (lives in Canada). They lived in Trinidad, St. Lucia and St.Kitts. She was buried in the Winter family plot in Westbury cemetery in Bridgetown. |
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| Randolph Rawson Duke 1904-1981 Rawson (“Uncle Raw”) was unmarried. He was an engineer- apprenticed in Scotland and then worked in the sugar factories in the West Indies (mostly in Trinidad and Jamaica). After he retired he lived in Cascais/Estoril near Lisbon, Portugal before returning to live in Hastings, Barbados where he died. He was buried in the Winter family plot in Westbury cemetery in Bridgetown. |
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| Sarah Hardy 1905-1979 Sarah (known as “Aunt Sally”) married Fred HARDY who was deputy Principle of Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in St. Augustine, Trinidad. They had a daughter Betty (m. Francis VERDERY) who had three children, Katherine, David and Margaret. |
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| Mansergh Pace Duke jnr 1908-1980 Mansergh Pace was known as “Uncle Tooney”. He lived in Canada all his working life, first working in the RCMP and later in the tourist industry and then the Ontario Department of Tourism. He married Elsie Noble in c.1948 in Montreal. They had no children. He owned a motel in St. Catherine’s, Ontario. |
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| Basil Ernest Vivian Duke 1910 Basil died young. |
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