Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Duke was born about 1756. She married Alexander Burness on 29 July 1781, in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died before 1784.
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Sources (2)
- Mary Duke, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Mary Duke in entry for Ann Burness, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
Spouse and Children
1753–1841 Male
1756–1784 Female
Children (1)
1782– Female
Name Meaning
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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