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).

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LATEST CHANGES This site was last updated on 29May 2006 Information corrected following converstaions with Peggy Clayton in Barbados, Mike Bolton in Connecticut and Ann Winter in Toronto. David O'Carroll, May 2006.