Joseph Tucker Came and Mended My Study Door
GENEALOGY OF THE TUCKER FAMILY FROM VARIOUS AUTHENTIC SOURCES. •• . '" D ·.. ,.,.~~,. ~;Wlt' 01 ~O~!IT"'TU..~f ~. • _.~ Mh,_TOt". l'•O,H, 1._1!1.0, "Time conquers all, and we must Time obey." -POPE. BY 0 EPHRAIM TUCKER, Member Worcester Society of Antiquity, WORCESTER, MASS., U. 5. A. COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY EPHRAIM TCCKEH. PRESS OFF. S. BLA:".CHARD & Co. ,YORCESTER, )IAS~. - , - .:--:---,r-~._"t'(")t\ »,4!( ..U I .4 I , .. I i :'·~. I ·.-:.. : · ..:· :.,· . ~·· ~,,. •'·.•, ·, j ' .-l~! ' .-.'t< ;.-,,:·/· ,:·-·. Iff,J.-.~.' .. l No. 1031. <!oat of Brms. t William the Conqueror introduced into England the feudal system of Normandy; having dispossessed the old English of their lands and br•,,nies and piacing upon them his chief Norman followers, he made a list of them in a document calltd the "Dor.1esday Book," and established heraldic tvidences and laws of heraldry. The Tucker arms are of record for 1079 and 1080. As closely as can be ascertained, •he above representation is the arms, - that of 1079 being for Tucker of South Tav; stock, Devon., and of Hellam, Cornwall; that of 1080 being for Tucker of DeYonshire, the same as 1079, omitting the battle-axe, eYidencing sea leadership. BLAZOX: :!:The Shield; "Barry wavy of ten, arg. and az. on a che,·. emhattled between three sea-horses naissant nr, fiye gouttes-de-poix." Tucker, Co. De\·on. Paf7i•orth's Ordi1101y of Britis/1 Ai-morials, pa~,, 530, JS/col., I4ih line. Pu/,. Harleia,z Society of Visitatio11. Dt,•012. I620, page 352. The Crest: "A lion's gamb, erased and erect, gu., charged with three billets in pale or, holding in the foot a battle-axe ar., handle of the second.'' Berry's E,uyc!o.
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