Robert Charles Duncan

Brief Life History of Robert Charles

When Robert Charles Duncan was born on 8 January 1888, in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Herbert Duncan, was 23 and his mother, Ann Castell, was 21. He married Phoebe Dowding Gingell on 20 October 1912, in Southwark, London, England, United Kingdom. He died on 2 March 1972, in Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84, and was buried in Southwark, London, England, United Kingdom.

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Robert Charles Duncan
1888–1972
Phoebe Dowding Gingell
1888–1977
Marriage: 20 October 1912

Sources (3)

  • Robert Duncan in household of Robert Duncan, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
  • Robert C Duncan, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
  • Robert Charles Duncan, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"

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1908

London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1914

Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.

Name Meaning

Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .

Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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