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Family
tradition is that our ancestor was Robert Duke of Newpark, Sligo, Ireland
who died about 1677 but there is a gap in the family tree which I am trying
to fill. There was another Duke in that location, John Duke, and it is equally
possible we are descended from him. These Dukes arrived in Sligo in the 17th century from Scotland as Cromwellian settlers (he paid off his army by giving them land in Ireland. The earliest mentions of the title I have found were in the commission of January 1655 which gave land to John Duke and Robert Duke in the barony of Corran and in the 1659 census of Sligo). I have found links with the Parke family in Ireland. There is a letter dated 1802 from John Parke to Jemmett Duke and families were joined through marriage. Robert Duke married Lucinda Parke in 1756 and their son Robert King Duke married Anne Parke in 1797. |
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