Pluck One-Name Study

Pluck
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Pluck One-Name Study
Variants
Frequency of the name
Distribution of the name
Data
Links
Contact Details

About the Pluck One-Name Study

This study covers both the Pluckrose and Pluck surnames.

Variants

There are records of both Plucks and Pluckroses before 1350 but present day Plucks all appear to be descended from some Pluckroses who shortened their name in the 18th century. You can read more about this on my website (which is listed below).

Frequency of the name

Pluckrose and Pluck are both uncommon names. When UK surnames are ranked in order of frequency Smith and Jones come first and second - Pluck and Pluckrose are 7830 and 15,508, respectively (this is based on the Office of National Statistics 2002 database).

Distribution of the name

Most present day Plucks and Pluckrose appear to be descended from a small family of Pluckroses who were living on the Essex - Cambridgeshire border around 1550. There is also an Irish branch of the Plucks although it is not yet established whether this has its own origins or whether it is descended from a Pluck who went from England to Ireland.

Data

I have a database of about 15,000 Pluckrose and Pluck 'events' - an event being the record of a birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial, census entry, probate, apprenticeship etc, which I am willing to search on your behalf.

Links

More information, including 24 trees dating back to about 1600, can be found on my website at www.pluckrose.org

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Derrick Porter
Fir Tree Lane,
West Chiltington,
West Sussex
RH20 2RA
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

This page last updated 25 February 2008.