Random Person of the Day - Francis Tuckey

The random number generator already managed a duplicate after only a few installments of Random Person of the Day.  But instead of discussing Arthur M. Tomlinson again, we'll move on to Francis Tuckey.

Francis "Frank" Tuckey was the brother of my 4x great grandpa, Charles Tuckey.  I don't have much information on him.  According to research done by my cousin, he was born in 1835 and died in 1912.  He married twice, to Mary Ann Graham and Janet Clark.  I don't have his children written down, but if he was like the rest of the Tuckey clan he procreated with gusto.  He was the son of Charles Thomas Tuckey, native of Middleton Cheney, Northhamptonshire, England who immigrated with his parents and brothers to the US, arriving in New York on 19 Dec 1823, and then moved on to Ontario, settling in the London area.  His wife, the mother of Francis, was Mary Burgess.

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Francis Tuckey (courtesy of Dale Tuckey's Tuckey history book)

The 5 Generation Photo

I'm going to kick off this new genealogy blog with a description of one of my favorite family photos.  This photograph shows, from left to right (oldest to youngest), five generations of the Tuckey/Tomlinson/Siems family.  They are Charles Tuckey, father-in-law of William Tomlinson, father of Laurence Tomlinson, father of Gretta Siems nee Tomlinson, mother of William Siems.

The infant in the picture is my grandpa, and I grew up hearing these names my whole life.  This picture basically sums up why I got interested in genealogy in the first place.  The Siems/Tomlinson side is close-knit family and growing up visiting distant cousins and hearing my grandpa's old stories, in the end, has led me to my genealogy obsession today.


Note on photos:  I don't mind if you wish to save a copy of the photos on this blog, but as most of them are original scans of personal family photos I would appreciate if you credited the source.