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Family tradition is that we are descended
from the Dukes of Newpark, Sligo, Ireland.
Many Dukes came to live and work in Barbados including
many of the children of Mansergh Pace Duke. These should
not be confused with the Duke family who were in
Barbados in the 17th century.
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Mansergh Pace Duke had 13
children
MP Duke
qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1874 where he married
Louisa Anna BUCKLEY. They had three girls, Elmina,
Frances Muriel and Annie Louisa. He practiced as a
doctor on several islands in the West Indies. He first
went to Dominica and then to Montserrat where, after the
death of Anna in 1890, he met and married his second
wife Emily WILKIN. He finished his career in the Leeward
Islands Medical Service in Antigua
THE CHILDREN OF MANSERGH & EMILY WERE:
Mansergh Valentine Duke 1894-1948
Mansergh was the first son of Mansergh Pace and
Emily DUKE. Mansergh Val's daughter
Angela married Eric Inglesby and they had three
children- Richard, Kate and David. “Uncle Vanty” was a
naval officer in the war ending as a Captain (S) in the
secretarial division.
He died some years after being adrift in a sail boat for
many days on his own off Singapore.
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Col Duke. June 1943
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Col.Duke MM MBE 1896-1976
Oriel St.Arnaud Duke was the second son of Mansergh
Pace and Emily DUKE. He was known by the family as
"Konks".
During the First World War he volunteered (although he
was too young) and was a Lance Corporal in 10 Battalion
Royal Fusiliers when he was awarded the M.M. & bar.
He ended the war as a sergeant.
He returned to the West Indies and joined the police in
the Leeward Islands. The M.B.E. was presented by the
Administration of Dominica 1st January 1932 for quelling
a riot. At this time Konks was Inspector of Police
Dominica, Leeward Islands. He was posted to Barbados in
1939 and as the commandant of local forces during WWII.
He was retired in 1948/49 following an inquiry into a
major fire in Bridgetown. Konks supported the Fire
Officer against the allegations made by the Colonial
Secretary (ie no 2 on the island). He then worked in a
department store (Harrison’s) in Bridgetown until the
1950s (1955).
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Sybil Bolton 1898-1982
Sybil was the daughter of
Mansergh Pace and Emily DUKE. She
married Pax Bolton a cleric who was sent from England to
Antigua in the British West Indies about 1910. They were
married about 1923 in Antigua. They had three
children born in Dominica, Peggy (m. 1. Abercromby 2.
Clayton), Rosemary (m. Warren) and Michael (m. Audrey
Charles).
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Ina Aileen Gall 1900-1970
Aileen was the daughter of Mansergh Pace and Emily
DUKE. She worked in the Royal Canadian Bank in Antigua
until she married Herbert Frederick Douglas GALL. They
had two daughters- Cynthia and Claire (m. O'Carroll).
The family came to live in Barbados from Dominica in
1936 on the retirement of her husband. They lived first
at the Pavillion, Hastings and then The Garrison outside
Bridgetown. She was buried in the Gall family vault at
St. Michael’s Cathedral, Bridgetown.
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William Duke 1901-1943
William was unmarried. He was an estate
overseer in Antigua. After loosing his job he returned
to his mother’s home. He moved to Nevis and then St
Kitts, where he died in a fire in which his home was
destroyed.
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Ismay Winter 1902-1978
Ismay married Clifford George WINTER a banker. They
had a daughter Ann (lives in Canada). They lived in
Trinidad, St. Lucia and St.Kitts. She was buried in the
Winter family plot in Westbury cemetery in Bridgetown,
Barbados.
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Randolph Rawson Duke 1904-1981
Rawson (“Uncle Raw”) was unmarried. He was an
engineer- apprenticed in Scotland and then worked in the
sugar factories in the West Indies (mostly in Trinidad
and Jamaica). After he retired he lived in
Cascais/Estoril near Lisbon, Portugal before
returning to live in Hastings, Barbados where he died.
He was buried in the Winter family plot in Westbury
cemetery in Bridgetown.
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Sarah Hardy 1905-1979
Sarah (known as “Aunt Sally”) married Fred HARDY
who was deputy Principle of Imperial College of Tropical
Agriculture in St. Augustine, Trinidad. They had a
daughter Betty (m. Francis VERDERY) who had three
children, Katherine, David and Margaret.
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Mansergh Pace Duke jnr
1908-1980
Mansergh Pace was known as “Uncle Tooney”. He lived
in Canada all his working life, first working in the
RCMP and later in the tourist industry and then the
Ontario Department of Tourism. He married Elsie Noble in
c.1948 in Montreal. They had no children. He owned a
motel in St. Catherine’s, Ontario.
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Basil Ernest Vivian Duke 1910
Basil died young.
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The picture
shows: (back row) Valentine, Sarah, Oriel, Ismay,
William. (Middle row) Sybil, Emily, Aileen. (Front row)
Rawson, Mansergh Pace jnr.It is assumed that the picture
was taken in Antigua.
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