When Charles Duke was born on 11 January 1840, in Corbettsville, Conklin, Broome, New York, United States, his father, William Duke, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Cockayne, was 31. He married Lydia Elizabeth Taylor in 1864, in Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Duke Center, Otto Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Wellsville, Wellsville, Allegany, New York, United States in 1900. He died in 1903, at the age of 63, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellsville, Wellsville, Allegany, New York, 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.
Possible Related NamesCharles Duke, banker, Duke Centre, is a native of Broome county, N. Y., a son of William and Elizabeth (Cokayne) Duke, natives of England and pioneers of Allegany county, N. Y. Charles was reared in …
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