Brief Life History of Richard Albert
When Richard Albert Duke was born on 11 October 1885, in Reagan, Falls, Texas, United States, his father, James Henry Duke, was 36 and his mother, Isabella "Belle" Martha McCoy, was 33. He married Maggie Jewell Mount on 15 August 1916, in Leon, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Jefferson, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 7 November 1926, in Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Reagan, Falls, Texas, United States.
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- Albert Duke, "United States Census, 1920"
- Albert Duke, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Albert Duke, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1895
Historical Boundaries: 1895: Jefferson, Texas, United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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