Thomas RUCK

Thomas RUCK[1, 2, 3]

Male 1747 - 1812  (~ 64 years)

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  • Name Thomas RUCK 
    Born Jul 1747  Westwell, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 6 Aug 1747  Westwell, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried 31 May 1812  Ospringe, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I1516  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 

    Father Edward RIGDEN,   c. 1726, Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mary RUCK,   c. 17 May 1727, Westwell, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2270  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth BROADBRIDGE,   c. 4 Jan 1747, Selling, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 29 Jun 1834, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Married 13 Aug 1767  Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Notes 
    • Thomas Ruck of this parish [Ospringe] and Elizabeth Broad of Faversham, married by Francis Giraud, Vicar of Preston
    Children 
     1. Mary BROADBRIDGE AKA RUCK,   b. Abt 1 Jun 1767, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1844, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years)
     2. Thomas RUCK,   b. 1768/1772,   d. 29 Nov 1840, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     3. Lucy RUCK,   c. 29 Jul 1770, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. Pre-1821  (Age ~ 50 years)
     4. James RUCK,   b. 26 Apr 1772, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Elizabeth RUCK,   c. 22 May 1774, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 5 Mar 1844, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
     6. John RUCK,   c. 28 Mar 1779, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 4 Feb 1859, Faversham District, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 79 years)
     7. Sarah Ann RUCK,   c. 9 Jun 1782, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. George RUCK,   c. 6 Nov 1785, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Rebecca ^ RUCK,   c. 1 Jun 1788, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 8 Jun 1789, Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F506  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • A release of recognizance issued to Thomas Ruck was found among the Faversham Borough Sessions records. That release was given as Thomas Ruck had made arrangements for the support of his illegitimate child who was born to "Elizabeth Broadbridge". That release, therefor, confirms two pieces of information: 1) that Mary was indeed Thomas' child; and 2) the maiden surname of Elizabeth Broade [sic] was indeed Broadbridge. See the citation under Elizabeth Broadbridge.


      There is a PCC Will for a Mary Ruck, spinster, that leaves everything to her sister, Ann Garrick as well as Ann's grandchildren Susannah, Mary and Thomas Garrick. I still have not been able to tie this Mary and Ann in to the immediate Ruck family at Faversham or Ospringe but Mary claims to have been formerly of Faversham and died at Eastry. The Garricks are at Eastry and Sandwich.
      Name: Thomas Garrick
      Spouse's Name: Ann Ruck (bc1763-)
      Event Date: 18 Oct 1783
      Event Place: Eastry, Kent, England

      Name: Thomas Garrick
      Gender: Male
      Christening Date: 25 Apr 1784
      Christening Place: Eastry, Kent, England
      Father's Name: Thomas Garrick
      Mother's Name: Ann (nee Ruck)

      Name: Thomas Garrick
      Spouse's Name: Susanna Bray
      Event Date: 17 Mar 1804
      Event Place: St. Peter'S Church, Sandwich, Kent, England


      Name: Susannah Garrick
      Gender: Female
      Christening Date: 18 Jan 1807
      Christening Place: St. Mary's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England
      Father's Name: Thomas
      Mother's Name: Susannah

      Name: Mary Garrick
      Gender: Female
      Christening Date: 27 Nov 1805
      Christening Place: St. Mary's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England
      Father's Name: Thomas
      Mother's Name: Susannah

      Name: Thomas Garrick
      Gender: Male
      Christening Date: 15 Aug 1804
      Christening Place: St. Mary's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England
      Father's Name: Thomas
      Mother's Name: Susannah

      Name: Thomas Garrick
      Gender: Male
      Burial Date: 17 Feb 1829
      Burial Place: Ham, Kent, England

  • Sources 
    1. [S59] Land Tax Assessments, England, Great Britain: Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1483019, Faversham, 1798.
      OWNER OCCUPIER ASSESSMENT
      Mr. Holness Thomas Ruck 0:4:0
      also with Edward Chambers and John Gammon all at the same rent assessment.

    2. [S104] Settlement Certificates, Church of England, Province of Canterbury, (Salt Lake City, U.S.A.: Genealogical Society of Utah).
      Title Settlement certificate
      Ref No CCA-U3-146/13/8/353
      Date 1768
      Description Ruck, Thomas, wife Elizabeth, daughter Mary one year and six months Ospringe
      Conservation Public Unfit for production

    3. [S104] Settlement Certificates, Church of England, Province of Canterbury, (Salt Lake City, U.S.A.: Genealogical Society of Utah), Canterbury Cathedral Archives, 1 Dec 1768.

      “We Edward Toker [had been transcribed as "Joker" with the note as follows: uncertain, difficult to read, could be Toker, Goker,] James Thurston & John Simmons Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Ospringe in the County of Kent aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge Thomas Ruck and Elizabeth his wife and Mary their daughter aged one year and six months or thereabouts to be our Inhabitant legally settled in the Parish of Ospringe aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals, this 1st Day of December in the ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth; and in the Year of our Lord 1768”

      [signatures]

      “To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Faversham in the County of Kent aforesaid or to any or either of them.”

      “We whose names are hereunto subscribed, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Kent aforesaid, do allow of the above-written Certificate. And we do also Certify, that James Copping one of the Witness, who attested the Execution of the said Certificate, hath made Oath before Us, that he did see the Church-wardens and Overseers, whose Names and Seals are to the said Certificate subscribed and set, severally sign and seal the said Certificate, and that the Names of the said James Copping and Edward Elfick [again uncertain, difficult to read] whose Names are above subscribed, as Witnesses to the Execution of the said Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing. Dated the third Day of February in the Year 1769”.

      [signatures]
      Transcript from original document graciously provided by Mr. .......... of the Canterbury Cathedral Archives to Susan D. Young on 19 Sep 2014. Original document in too fragile a state for any other copying method.

    4. [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Ospringe, Kent, England, 31 May 1812.
      Buried Thomas Ruck aged 66 years. [bc1746]

    5. [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), LDS Film #1886147, Faversham, 13 Aug 1767.
      August 13 [1767] Thomas Ruck of Ospringe and "Eliz: Broade" of Fav: [Faversham]. Banns.
      See citation under Elizabeth Broadbridge concerning her correct name.

      SURNAME GIVEN NAME BRIDESUR BRIDE GIV EVT DATE YEAR PARENTS/SPOUSE PLACE SOURCE
      RUCK Thomas BROADE Elizabeth M 13 Aug 1767 he of Ospringe & she of this parish. Wit: Uriah Burr & Edward K. Smith Faversham PR AD