When Martha Susan Duke was born on 16 November 1872, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jonathan Green Duke, was 26 and her mother, Evelin Warren, was 25. She married Charles H. Pulley on 15 October 1888, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 23, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Trousdale, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 20 November 1945, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Kempville, Smith, Tennessee, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English duk(ke), duck, doke, dook ‘duck’ (Old English dūce), either from a perceived resemblance (perhaps a waddling gait) or from association with wild fowling. Compare Duck , Drake .
English: from the Middle English personal name Duk or Duke. In northern England this is usually a pet form of Marmaduke. It may alternatively be a survival of one or more Old English personal names, though it is uncertain whether they were still current in the period of surname formation. Old English Ducc(a) is attested in placenames like Duxford (Cambridgeshire) and Duckington (Cheshire), and was perhaps interchangeable with Docc, attested in Doxey (Staffordshire) and Doxford (Northumberland). Duke could also represent Old English Deowuc (as in Deuxhill, Shropshire). A surname from Marmaduke is on record until at least 1881 and derives from the personal name Marmaduke, apparently an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of Old Irish Maolmaedóc ‘devotee of Maedóc’; see Duckett .
Americanized form of Polish Duk: nickname from dukać ‘to stammer or falter’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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