The Hulke Family


Ann (Hulke) Hetherland

Birth: 1669

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ellen (Whale) Hulke

Married: W. Hetherland in 1697

Death: 1712

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Ann Hulke

Birth: 10 November 1720

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Death: 4 September 1739

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Ann (Hulke) Dixon

Birth: 25 February 1800

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Married: J. Easter Dixon

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Anne Hulke

Birth: 1616

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

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Anne (_____) Hulke

Married: William Hulke

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Anne (_____) Hulke

Married: John Hulke

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Anne Hulke

Birth: 1733

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ann (_____) Hulke

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Anne Hulke

Birth: 1735

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Mary (Breame) Hulke

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Anne Hulke

Birth: 1794

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

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Anthony Hulke

Birth: 1580

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

Married: Mildred Baker in 1604

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Anthony Hulke

Birth: 1613

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

Married: Anne Gyfford in 1631

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Benjamin HulkeSt Leonards Church

Birth: 1624

Baptism: 23 August 1624, in St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent, England

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Safrey on 7 October 1656 in St. Clement's, Sandwich, Kent, England

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Benjamin Hulke

Title: Captain

Birth: 14 April 1658

Baptism: 19 April 1658, in St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent, England

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Jopton in 1680

Children: Occupation: Shipwright

Death: 7 February 1722/3  (OS/NS)

Buried: 10 February 1722/3 (OS/NS), in St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent, England

Notes: On 13 October 1699 the Charter of Deal was signed by King William III and this created Deal as a "Borough and Market Town" separate from Sandwich. Captain Joshua Coppin became the first mayor assisted by twelve jurats who were councilmen appointed for life, unless they misbehaved. Benjamin was one of these jurats. He was Mayor of Deal in 1706 and 1710.

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Benjamin Hulke

Birth: 1669

Father: George Hulke

Mother: Susan (_____) Hulke

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Benjamin Hulke

Birth: 1683

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Warren in 1722

Children: Death: 1746

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Benjamin Hulke

Birth: 1697

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Scodden) Hulke


Benjamin Hulke

Title: Lieutenant

Birth: 11 August 1708

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Married: Frances Manley

Children: Occupation: Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Death: 1757, of fever

Buried: 12 February 1757, in Stoke by Plymouth Churchyard

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Benjamin Hulke

Birth: 1722

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Death: 1745

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Benjamin Hulke

Title: Captain

Birth: 24 February 1754

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Married: Jane

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Benjamin Hulke

Birth: 14 August 1801

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Married: Amy Mourilyan

Occupation: Solicitor and Town Clerk. Benjamin was mayor of Deal in 1830.

Death: 1858

Buried: 1858, in St. George's, Deal, Kent

Notes: Benjamin is likely the Benjamin Hulke named as been bankrupt in 1841 in these proceedings of another bankruptcy case in Deal (document from a sale on eBay).
4 May 1841: Assignment in Trust for Creditors. Thomas Philip Turner of Deal, bread and biscuit baker, to Joseph Webb Pilcher of Crabble in River, miller, George William Chitty of Deal, miller, and Thomas William Russell of Deal, gent, and other creditors of Turner. Assignment of house and bakery in Beach St., Deal, plus property in Middle St. occupied by Hookham plus 2 tenements in Middle St. opposite the National Schools, occupied by Mummery and Hobday plus property in the alley from King St. to Custom House Lane, occupied by Thomas Andrews plus a shop and bakehouse in Beach St., occupied by John Reynolds, Turner and Goodchild plus all the boats owned or partly owned by Turner; ‘Industry’, ‘Eagle’, ‘Earl Grey’, ‘Sally’ and ‘Elk’. Signed and sealed by Turner, Pilcher, Chitty and Russell. With Schedule of Debts signed and sealed by creditors (Chitty, Russell, Pilcher, George West, James Dawes, Thomas Bushell, Richard Castle, William Matson, Joseph Ralph, Harrison Ralph, Henry Reynolds, Philip Finnis, Mary Tupper, George Hammond/E. Derby/William Carter (as assignees for Benjamin Hulke, bankrupt, and again as assignees for William Hulke, bankrupt)

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Bertha Backhouse (Hulke) Leney

Birth: 28 August 1866, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Alfred Charles Leney on 27 October 1887, in Eastry District, Kent, England

Children: Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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Catherine Hulke

Birth: 1731

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

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Celeb Hulke

Birth: 1587

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

Death: 1607

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Charles Hulke

Birth: 1711

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Anne (_____) Hulke

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Charles Hulke

Birth: 4 May 1836

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Ellen Clarissa Collins, on 25 July 1855, in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

Death: 30 October 1898, in New Zealand

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Charlotte Backhouse (Hulke) Hannam

Birth: 1864, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Philip James Hannam, in 1886, in Eastry, Kent, England

Children: Notes: Known as "Lottie"

Census:
1881: 4 A. Crescent, Camberwell, Surrey

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Dora Backhouse (Hulke) McFarlane

Birth: 1875, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: _____ McFarlane

Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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Edith Backhouse (Hulke) Spreat

Birth: 1865, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Frank Arthur Spreat, in 1890, in Kensington, London, England

Children: Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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Edward Hulke

Birth: 1776

Mother: Elizabeth Hulke

Death: 1776

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Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Married: William Hulke

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Eleanor Hulke

Birth: 1722

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Death: 1753

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Elizabeth Hulke

Birth: 1599

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke

Death: 1603

Elizabeth (_____) Hulke

Married: John Hulke

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Elizabeth Hulke

Birth: 1628

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

Death: 1630

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Elizabeth (Hulke) Snoswell

Baptism: 20 September 1663, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke

Married: Jeffrey Snoswell on 6 May 1684 in Eythorne, Kent, England

Children: Death: 1755

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Elizabeth Hulke

Birth: 1681

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Notes: Elizabeth is mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke in 1685 and is bequeathed "one gold ring with three stones in it".

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Elizabeth (Hulke) Fido

Birth: 1699

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Scodden) Hulke

Married: T. Fido in 1719

Death: 1769

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Elizabeth (Hulke, Dixon) Hadley

Birth: 1706

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Married (1st): Thomas Dixon, in 1728

Married (2nd): John Hadley

Death: 1797

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Elizabeth Hulke

Birth: 1725

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

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Elizabeth (Hulke) Hulke

Birth: 1725

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Married: Hercules Hulke in 1747

Children: Death: 1768

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Elizabeth Hulke

Birth: 1747

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Mary (Breame) Hulke

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Elizabeth King Hulke

Birth: 1832

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Death: 1906

Census:
1891: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent

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Ellen (_____) Hulke

Married: John Hulke

Children: Death: 1639

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Ellen (Hulke) Hockaway

Birth: 1667

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ellen (Whale) Hulke

Married: _____ Hockaway in 1699

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Ellen Noakes Powell Hulke

Birth: 1843, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Death: 1929

Census:
1881: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent
1891: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent

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Emily Jane Hulke

Birth: 31 July 1829

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Death: 27 January 1894, in Eastry District, Kent, England

Will:

I Emily Jane Hulke of 155 High Street Deal in the County of Kent Spinster hereby revoke all Wills and Testaments at any time heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I give to each of my Executors hereinafter named who shall prove this my Will the sum of Ten guineas as a small acknowledgment for his trouble in executing the trusts of this my Will I give and devise all my real Estate and parts and shares of real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto and equally between my three sisters Elizabeth King Hulke and Frances Charlotte Hulke and Ellen Noakes Powell Hulke or such of them as shall survive me and their heirs and assigns as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and in case there shall be but one surviving then the whole to be for that one her heirs and assigns the same to be for their or her sole and separate use and benefit and I give and bequeath all my personal Estate not hereinbefore otherwise disposed of (subject to the payment of my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies bequeathed by this my Will or any Codicil hereto) unto and equally between my said three Sisters Elizabeth King Hulke and Frances Charlotte Hulke and Ellen Noakes Powell Hulke or such of them as shall survive me for their sole and separate use And in case there shall be but one of my said sisters who shll survive me then the whole to be for that one Sister for her sole and separate use but in case none of my said Sisters shall survive me I direct the Executors of this my Will hereinafter named absolutely to sell call in convert and collect all my real and personal Estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever (except such articles of jewellery and other effects of which I may leave a memorandum in writing touching my intended disposition thereof and of which I desire my Executors to dispose accordingly) And after payment of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies bequeathed by this my Will and any Codicil hereto I direct that my said Executors shall pay one moiety of the net proceeds of the said sale collection and conversion and of any ready money of which I may die possessed unto my Brother Charles Hulke absolutely And shall pay and divide the other moiety of the said net proceeds of sale and money or if my said Brother shall not become entitled to the moiety therof herein before directed to be paid to him shall pay and divide the whole thereof unto and equally between all the Daughters of my Sister Louisa Burton Plumbe (Widow of Samuel Alderson Plumbe) who shall then be living and the issue born in my lifetme of any of them who may then be dead such issue taking representatively their parents share the shares of such of them as shall be married to be for their sole and separate use and their receipts alone shall be good discharges for the same and I declare that any property hereby authorised to be sold may be sold either together or in parcels and by public auction or private contract and either with or without special conditions or stipulations relative to title or otherwise with power for my Executors to buy in any property put up for sale and rescind or vary any contract for sale and resell without being answerable for loss or dimunition in price and to execute assurances give effectual receipts for the purchase money and do all acts and things for completing such sale which my Executors may think proper And I declare that the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will may postpone the sale and conversion of my real and personal Estate or any part thereof for as long as they or he may think fit And I appoint my Brother John Whitaker Hulke and my nephew Edward William Wilmott to be Executors of this my Will In witness whereof I the said Emily Jane Hulke have to this my Will set my hand this twenty eighth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Signed by the said Emily Jane Hulke the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Emily Jane Hulke
A H Douglas Smith Major & Bk Master North Barracks Walmer
M. E. Smith North Barracks Walmer

On the 14th day of Febraury 1894 Probate of this Will was granted at Canterbury to Edward William Wilmott Esquire one of the Executors

Probate:
from Probate records in Somerset House, London 1894
HULKE Emily Jane of 155 High Street Deal spinster died 27 January 1894 Probate Canterbury 14 Feb 1894 to Edward William Wilmott esquire Effects of £2361 14s 3d.

Census:
1881: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent
1891: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent

(Note on census: Emily Jane appears in the census as Jane, by which name she was presumably known. Her age in the census is given as an optimistic 48 when she was, in fact, 51. Her sisters, too seemed to show some flexibility on ages - Ellen only aged 8 years between 1881 and 1891)

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Emma Hulke

Birth: 1841, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Census:
1881: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent

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Ford Breame Hulke

Birth: 1739

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Mary (Breame) Hulke

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Frances (Hulke) Simmons

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Married: Samuel Simmons

Children: Death: 1749

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Frances Hulke

Birth: 1748

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Death: 1748

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Frances Hulke

Birth: 1755

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Death: 1755

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Frances Charlotte Hulke

Birth: 1838, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Death: 1914

Census:
1881: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent
1891: 155 High Street, Deal, Kent

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Frederick Thomas Hulke

Birth: 8 May 1834, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Charlotte Backhouse on 28 June 1860

Children: Occupation: MD Surgeon, at Deal

Death: 10 April 1881

Buried: Deal Cemetary, Deal, Kent, England

Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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Frederick Backhouse Hulke

Birth: 1862, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Irene Harriet Stirling in 1887, in Kingston, Surrey, England

Children: Occupation: In the 1881 census, Frederick is listed as a "Student In Medicine"

Notes: Frederick was once the owner of the Partridge, a 72 foot Victorian gaff cutter yacht built in 1885. This boat has recently been fully restored.

Death: 1925

Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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George Hulke

Birth: 1594

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

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George Hulke

Father: Robert Hulke

Married: Susan

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George Hulke

Birth: 1667

Father: George Hulke

Mother: Susan (_____) Hulke

Death: 1710

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George Hulke

Birth: 1707

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Scodden) Hulke

Death:  1737

Notes: George was a smuggler.

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Grace Hulke

Birth: 1730

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Death: 1735

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Henly Hulke

Birth: 1785

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Jane (_____) Hulke

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Hercules Hulke

Birth: 1728

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Hulke in 1747

Children: Death: 1774

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Jane Hulke

Birth: 1631

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

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Jane (_____) Hulke

Married: Benjamin Hulke

Children: Death: 1787

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Jessie Backhouse (Hulke) Burnell

Birth: 1877, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Charles Desborough Burnell on 13 October 1903, in Kensington, London, England. Charles was born on 13 January 1876. Joan Nourani records his birthplace as Notting Hill, London, but the birth was registered in Bromley district, Kent. Charles died on 4 October 1869, in Walgrave, Berkshire.

Children: Death: 1967, in Walgrave, Berkshire, England

Census:

1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

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Joan Hulke

Birth: 1602

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke

Death: 1615

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Joan Hulke

Birth: 1609

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

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John Hulke

Married: Mary

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John Hulke

Birth: 1577

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

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John Hulke

Birth: 1598

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth

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John Hulke

Birth: 1605

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke

Married: Ellen

Children: Death: 1639

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John Hulke

Birth: 1627

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

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John Hulke

Birth: 19 November 1660

Baptism: 25 November 1660, in St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent, England

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke

Married: Sarah Easter in 1706

Children: Death: 1722

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John Hulke

Birth: 1670

Father: George Hulke

Mother: Susan (_____) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Scodden on 30 April 1696, in Deal, Kent

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John Hulke

Birth: 1686

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Married: Anne

Children: Death: 1734

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John Hulke

Birth: 1702

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Scodden) Hulke

Married: Sarah

Children: Death: 1748

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John Hulke

Birth: 1710

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Death: 1711

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John Hulke

Birth: 1712

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Death: 1713

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John Hulke

Birth: 1723

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (_____) Hulke


John Hulke

Birth: 1729

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Death: 1729

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John Hulke

Birth: 1738

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Death: 1753

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John Hulke

Birth: 1738

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Mary (Breame) Hulke

Death: 1739

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John Hulke

Title: Captain

Birth: 3 February 1752

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Occupation: Captain, Royal Navy

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John Read Hulke

Birth: 1793

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Death: 1793

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John Hulke

Birth: 18 April 1803

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Occupation: Surgeon, in the Honourable East India Company Service (HEICS)

Death: at sea, in the South Atlantic

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John Whitaker Hulke

Birth: 6 November 1830, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Julia Grace Ridley on 1 October 1858, in Hastings, Sussex, England

Education: After attending boarding school in England, John continued his education in Germany, at the Moravian College at Neuwied (1843 to 1845). Returning to England, he studied at King's College School inn London during 1846 and 1847, entering the medical department of that college in 1849. He was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, becoming its President in 1893.

Occupation: Surgeon, although John also achieved distinction as a geologist and palaeontologist. He served as a medical officer in Smyrna and Sebastopol during Crimean War. John was Assistant-Surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and later Surgeon and senior Surgeon at the Middlesex hospital.

John was editor of the "Report on Surgery" section of A Year-Book of Medicine & Surgery -1859. At this time he is listed as an Assistant-Surgeon at the King's College Hospital and the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital.

Milestones:
Hulke 1882
Hulke 1887
Two examples of plates from the palaeontological work of John Hulke, as published in scientific journals of the time.
from www.dinowight.co.uk
Notes: In addition to his career as a surgeon, John was an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and collector and student of dinosaur fossils. He wrote over 50 palaeontological papers, of which 28 were devoted to dinosaurs. Many of these were published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, between 1869 and 1887. After his death, his extensive fossil collection was donated to the Natural History Museum, London.

As a palaeontologist in the second half of the 19th century, John Hulke became mixed up in the sometimes vitriolic debates on evolution. The proposed link between dinosaurs and birds (now no longer controversial) was at the time considered a significant proof point of Darwinism, and was widely debated. Hulke's work on an Iguanodon fossil showed it to be a pelvic bone, not a scapula as previously thought, and had clear similarity to the pelvic bones of birds. Hulke's open support of Professor Huxley, an agnostic who was leading the charge showing a dinosaur-bird link, was significant because of Hulke's Calvinistic religious beliefs. In Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875 (University of Chicago Press, 1986), Adrian Desmond notes that:
Entering geology laterally, as it were, at the moment of Huxley's triumph, Hulke proved not only a competent morphologist but a formidable ally. Perhaps even a natural one, despite (or rather because of) his Calvinistic leaning; he was a man of "strict" views and "austerity that amounted to harshness". Of Dutch Reformed descent, he was deeply religious; The Lancet commented that "his Protestantism was of the intolerant kind", to the degree that his judgments sometimes "seemed unnecessarily severe".

Death: 19 February 1895, at Old Burlington Street, Westminster, London, England, of broncho-pneumonia following influenza.

Buried: New Deal Cemetery, Deal, Kent, England

Obituary:
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Vol LVIII from April 25th 1895 to June 20 1895 page xlix
JOHN WHITAKER HULKE was born in the year 1830, and died on Tuesday, the 19th of February, 1895.  The immediate cause of his death was broncho-pneumonia following influenza, and apparently caused by a chill taken when attending, in the early morning, a serious case at the Middlesex Hospital.  Mr. Hulke was the son of a well-known surgeon of Deal, in which town his family had resided for several generations, and where his mortal remains are now laid to rest.  Mr. Hulke received his early education at a private boarding school, where it appears he was very unhappy, and he was therefore quite ready to appreciate the kindness which, notwithstanding the roughness of school life, he experienced at the Moravian College at Neuweid, where his education was continued from 1843 to 1845 ; it was here that he gained his intimate knowledge of the German language, and the groundwork of his acquaintance with natural history ; here also, in the Eifel district, his interest in geology was first awakened.
   Returning to England, he studied at King's College School during 1846 and 1847, entering the medical department of that college in 1849, where for the following few years he underwent his medical training.
   In 1855 he was attached to the medical staff of the General Hospital in the Crimea, and in March of that year was doing duty in the English Hopital at Smyrna.  Here the medical officers appear to have had comparitively comfortable quarters, but often very few patients.  Some excitement was kept up by a band of brigands roaming the neighbourhood, and on one occasion, a doctor of the town, having been carried off by them in the hope of ransom, Mr. Hulke was among the first to start to the rescue.  In September he left Smyrna for the camp before Sebastopol in the hope of gaining more experience, and here, during the winter of 1855-56, owing to the severe climate and other causes, he had a very trying time, on more than one occasion narrowly escaping the shots of the Russians, but, as he himself has said, gaining in those few months years of experience.  Letters sent home to Deal at this time contain graphic accounts of his surroundings, but no word of complaint of the hardships undergone.
   On returning to England he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and received the appointment of Assistant-Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, in 1857.  His well-known and classical essay on 'Diseases of the Retina' was written soon afterwards, and was awarded the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1859.  Not long after this he published a treatise on the ophthalmoscope, an instrument in use in Germany, but at that time not known to English practitioners.  Besides other works relating to diseases of the eye, Mr. Hulke made many contributions to general surgery, which were published in the 'Medicochirurgical Transactions,' and elsewhere.
   In the year 1862 Mr. Hulke was appointed Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and it was here that the chief of his life's work may be said to have been accomplished.  His skill as an operator became widely known, while the keen interest which he took in his patients, and his kindly sympathy with them were best appreciated by those who in their trouble and sickness were so fortunate as to be under his care.  He eventually became senior surgeon to this hospital, a post he retained until the time of his death.
   In 1876 he was appointed Examiner to the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1880 became a member of the Court of Examiners ; in 1881 he was elected a member of the Council, in 1888, a Vice-President, and in 1893 President, which latter position he held at the time of his death. In 1883 he was President of both the Pathological and Geological Societies.
   Mr. Hulke was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1867, his claim being based exclusively on researches relating to the anatomy and physiology of the retina in man and the lower animals, particularly the reptiles.  These were embodied in two papers in the 'Philosophical Transactions' ("On the Anatomy of the Fovea centralis of the Human Retina," and "On the Chameleon's Retina"), and in a paper on the "Retina of Amphibia and Reptiles," in the first volume of the 'Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.'  These are characterised by patient and conscientious minuteness in the working out and description of details and cautious reserve in drawing inferences. Probably the most important and permanently valuable of Mr. Hulke's researches was the one relating to the retina of the chameleon, which the abundant material at his disposal enabled him to elaborate in a more complete maner than had before been possible.
   In judging of the value of histological work done nearly a generation ago, it must be remembered that at that time the minute anatomist had to work alone.  Hulke was the first in this country to follow in the footsteps of Max Schultze and Heinrich Müller - the first to employ those, at that time, new methods of research which have rendered it possible to acquire that relatively perfect knowledge of the fine structure of the organs of special sense which we now possess.  If the work of Hulke and his contemporaries is unknown, as no doubt it is to the student of the present day, it is not because it was unimpotant, but rather because the anatomical facts then made out for the first time with very imperfect means of investigation, have been presented to him in sharper outline by men who, after all, only built on the foundations laid by their predecessors.  Hulke very soon after he became a Fellow of the Royal Society transferred his allegiance to geology, between which and his profession as a consulting surgeon his energies were thenceforthy to be divided.  Had he continued his anatomical studies he would without doubt have attained to the foremost rank among physioloical anatomists.
   During the quarter of a century which followed his first contributions to geological science, Mr. Hulke found leisure to apply himself to research in this field, notwithstanding his constantly increasing practice. He did so to so good a purpose that he became a palæontologist of no ordinary merit.  His knowledge of comparative anatomy, and especially of osteology, enabled him rapidly to grasp the meaning of structures presented by the remains of fossil vertebrates ; and this, combined with a naturally keen perception and a rigid adherence to facts, soon caused his opinion on palæontological matters to be sought, and held in the highest estimation.
   It was the fossil Reptilia which more especially occupied Mr. Hulke's attention, and his numerous papers on their osteology are a monument to his industry.  Many of the fossils which  he described were, in part at least, freed from the matrix by his own facile chisel ; and in this mechanical work, as he himself has said, he often found relaxation when his mind was over-wrought by professional anxieties.
   Mr. Hulke's well-earned vacations were often spent at localities of geological interest, more especially with a view to working out the fossils which might be obtained.  For this purpose he paid many visits to Brook, in the Isle of Wight, from whence have come many specimens of Wealden Dinosauria ; near here also, at Brixton, was preserved the unique collection of these Wealden reptiles, made by the Rev. W. Fox.  For many years Mr. Hulke was the only palæontologist who had free access to this collection ; and he did much good work in bringing to light its hidden treasures, which otherwise remained almost unknown until after the death of their owner, when they were transferred to the British Museum.
   In the year 1868 Mr. Hulke was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and from that time onwards the pages of the Quarterly Journal of that Society were frequently enriched by his writings.  No fewer than six of his papers were published in the two volumes which followed the year of his election, and these with one exception were descriptions of Saurian remains from the Kimmeridge clay of Dorset.  Several other papers on reptiles from the same locality appeared in subsequent volumes ; and many contributions to the osteology of this interesting group of reptiles have appeared in the 'Quarterly Journal' of the Geological Society, and in the 'Philosophical Transactions' of the Royal Society.
   Our first knowledge of the cranium of Iguanodon was due to Mr. Hulke's work upon a specimen from the Isle of Wight, which did not include facial bones, and the affinities of which it was by no means easy to determine.
   In 1873 and 1874 he made additions to our knowledge of the small Wealden Dinosaur, which had been named by Professor Huxley Hypsilophodon Foxii ; and in 1882 a still more important memoir on the same species was published in the 'Philosophical Transactions.'
   In 1874 and 1876 Mr. Hulke showed that a certain bone of Iguanodon which had been regarded as a scapula, was really  a part of the pelvis ; and, indeed, it proved to be the remarkable pubis of that reptile, which so nearly resembles that of a bird.
   In 1879 the two genera, Poikilopleuron and Megalosaurus, were shown by Hr. Hulke to be one and the same Dinosaurian genus.  In the same year he described the remains of a new Wealden Dinosaur under the name of Vectisaurus Valdensis ; and in 1880 he made known one of the most perfect Iguanodons discovered in this country which had been found in the Kimmeridge clay of Cumnor ; this was named Iguanodon Prestwichii.
   In the following year there appeared in the 'Philosophical Transactions' Mr. Hulke's memoir on Polocanthus Foxii.  This remarkable Dinosaur, the name for which had been suggested by Sir R. Owen, has a large dermal shield spread out above the iliac bones in such a way as to form a kind of carapace over the lumbar and sacral regions ; besides this, large spines and scutes were attached to other parts of the body.
   Mr. Hulke's presidential addresses to the Geological Society, 1883-4, formed an important contribution to our knowledge of reptilian osteology, and especially threw light on the structure of the shoulder girdle in Plesiosaurs and their allies.
   The Iguanodont remains found in England have been more or less fragmentary, and discoveries made by other workers helping to elucidate their structures were hailed by Hr. Hulke with satisfaction ; no one more heartily rejoiced than he did when the rich treasures of the Belgian Wealden rocks were brought to light by the geologists of that country, and they made the discovery of the series of magnificently perfect Iguanodon skeletons, several of which now adorn the Museum of Natural History at Brussels.
   Mr. Hulke was for many years on the Council of the Geological Society , and the high esteem in which he was held by the leading geologists of the day, as well as their thorough appreciation of his palæontological work, found expression by their electing him, in 1882, to fill the Presidential chair of the Society, and, in 1887, by their presenting him with the Wollaston Gold Medal, the greatest honours it was in their power to bestow.  In 1891 he was elected Foreign Secretary of the Geological Society, which office he still held at the time of his decease.
   Beloved and respected by all who knew him, Mr. Huke will long be lamented as a Christian gentleman.
J. B. S
E.T.N

and in The Annual Register - A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1895 edited by Edmund Burke (Longmans, Green and Co., 1896):
Obituary:
On the 19th, at Old Burlington Dtreet, W., aged 64, John Whitaker Hulke, F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, eldest son of a surgeon at Deal, who attended the first Duke of Wellington in his last illness.  Educated at King's College School, London, and in Germany; entered Medical School of King's College, 1849; appointed Surgeon to British Hospital at Smyrna, 1855; F.R.C.S., 1857; Assistan Surgeon, King's College Hospital, 1857; Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1858; Middlesex Hospital, 1859; Senior Surgeon, 1866; Vice-President of the College of Surgeons, 1884; President, 1893. Married, 1858.

Census:
1881: 10 Old Burlington St., Westminster, London, Middlesex

Sources:

Judith Hulke

Birth: 1634

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Julius Hulke

Birth: 1729

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Sources:

Lewis Iggluden B. Hulke

Title: Colonel

Birth: 1867, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: Louise Helena M. Treanor, in 1895, in Eastry District, Kent, England

Children: Census:
1881: Kings School, Canterbury, Kent

Sources:

Louisa Burton (Hulke) Plumbe

Birth: 3 October 1826, in Deal, Kent, England

Father:William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Samuel Alderson Plumbe on 30 September 1852, in St. Andrew's, Deal, Kent, England

Children: Death: 7 June 1900, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England

Buried: Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England

Will:

This is the last Will and Testament of me Louisa Burton Plumbe of Monkendons Maidenhead in the County of Berks Widow. I appoint my Sons Samuel Thomson Plumbe and Philip Algernon Plumbe to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will I give all my wearing apparel jewellery and trinkets unto my daughters in equal shares. I devise and bequeath all my property and effects not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my Trustees Upon trust that they shall at their discretion sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof that shall not consist of money and shall out of the proceeds thereof and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and after such payments shall divide the same equally amongst all my children. Provided always that if any child of mine shall die in my lifetime leaving a child or children who shall survive me and being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or marry under that age then and in every such case the last mentioned child or children shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share which his her or their parent would have taken of and in the residuary trust funds if such parent had survived me. And I declare that the signature of any of my daughters shall alone be a sufficient discharge for any money that may be paid them In witness whereof I have set my hand to this my Will the Twenty eighth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety one.
Signed by the said Louisa Burton Plumbe as her last Will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Louisa B. Plumbe
William Weed, Solicitor, Maidenhead.
William Nelson Lee, his Clerk.

On the Seventeenth day of August 1900, Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Samuel Thomson Plumbe and Philip Algernon Plumbe, the Sons, the Executors.
Probate:
from Probate records in Somerset House, London 1900
PLUMBE Louisa Burton of "Monkendons" High Street Maidenhead Berkshire Widow died 7 June 1900 Probate Oxford 17 August to Samuel Thomson Plumbe M.D. and Philip Algernon Plumbe bank-clerk Effects of £2641 18s 7d.

Census:
1881: High Street, Cookham, Berkshire
1891: 86-90 High Street, Cookham, Berkshire

Sources:

Lucy Hulke

Birth: 1708

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Anne (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Mabel Backhouse (Hulke) Barker

Birth: 1869, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: John Collier Barker in 1894, in Kensington, London, England

Children: Death: 1957

Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

Sources:

Margaret Hulke

Birth: 1635

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Marge (Hulke) Seffery

Birth: 1600

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke

Married: John Seffery

Marie Hulke

Birth: 1727

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Death: 1768

Sources:

Martha Hulke

Birth: 1605

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

Sources:

Martha Hulke

Birth: 16 May 1787

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Death: 16 May 1843, in Eastry District, Kent, England

Sources:

Mary (_____) Hulke

Married: John Hulke

Children:

Mary Hulke

Birth: 1621

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

Sources:

Mary Hulke

Birth: 1629

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Mary Ann Hulke

Birth: 1690

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Death: 1711

Sources:

Mary (Hulke) Larne

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Married: William Larne

Sources:

Mary Ann Hulke

Birth: 1716

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Death: 1720

Sources:

Mary Hulke

Birth: 1720

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Mary Hulke

Birth: 1727

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (_____) Hulke


Mary Ann Hulke

Birth: 1735

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Mary Hulke

Father: Hercules Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Hulke) Hulke

Sources:

Mary Ann (Hulke) Wilmott

Birth: 1823, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Edward Wilmott on 29 October 1846, in Deal, Kent, England

From The Patrician (E. Churton, 1846):
Wilmott, Edward, Esq. of Lewes, Sussex, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of William Hulke, Esq., surgeon, Deal, Kent, 29th Oct.

Children: Buried: in Hitchins  (??, perhaps this should be Hitchin, Hertfordshire)

Census:
1881: 207 Brockley Rd, Deptford, Kent (now Greater London)

Sources:

Michael Hulke

Birth: 1632

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Mildred Hulke

Birth: 1631

Father: Anthony Hulke

Mother: Mildred (Baker) Hulke

Sources:

Priscilla Hulke

Birth: 1601

Father: Robert Hulke

Mother: Gene (Barber) Hulke


Rachel Hulke

Birth: 1717

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Anne (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Richard Hulke

Birth: 1727

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Death: 1734

Sources:

Robert Hulke

Birth: 1574

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

Married: Gene Barber in 1595

Children: Sources:

Robert Hulke

Birth: 1626

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (_____) Hulke

Children: Sources:

Robert Hulke

Birth: 1674

Father: George Hulke

Mother: Susan (_____) Hulke

Death: 1683

Sources:

Robert Shaw Hulke

Birth: 1823

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Death: 1825

Buried: St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent

Sources:

Samuel Hulke

Birth: 1725

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (_____) Hulke


Sarah Hulke

Birth: 1632

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Ellen (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Sarah Hulke

Birth: 1669

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ellen (Whale) Hulke

Death: 1680

Sources:

Sarah (Hulke) Pilcher

Birth: 1705

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Anne (_____) Hulke

Married: J. Pilcher in 1725

Death: 1775


Sarah (_____) Hulke

Married: John Hulke

Children:

Sarah (Hulke) Dill

Birth: 6 July 1718

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Married: Benjamin Dill in 1742

Sources:

Sarah Hulke

Birth: 1729

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Death: 1782

Sources:

Sarah Hulke

Birth: 1735

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Sources:

Sarah Hulke

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Mary (Breame) Hulke

Death: 1745

Sources:

Susan (_____) Hulke

Married: George Hulke

Children:

Sydney Backhouse Hulke

Birth: 1871, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Married: in 1901, in Kensington, London, England.

Children: Census:
1881: 20 Holme House, Canterbury, Kent

Sources:

Thomas Hulke

Birth: 1741

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Warren) Hulke

Sources:

Thomas Manley Hulke

of Deal, Kent

Birth: 5 September 1750

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Married: _____ Douglas

Occupation: Thomas served in the Royal Navy, and was a "middie" shipmate of Horatio Nelson in Nelson's early days as a midshipman aboard the Triumph in 1772. Thomas was later promoted to the commissioned rank of lieutenant.

Death:
1786

Sources:

Thomas Hulke

Birth: 1787

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Jane (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Thomas Manley Hulke

Birth: 25 April 1789

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Death: 12 July 1831

Sources:

Thomas Manley Hulke

Birth: 1822

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Ellen Barrett

Occupation: In the Royal Navy

Death: 1862, in Calcutta, India

Buried: Calcutta, India

Sources:

Valentino Hulke

Birth: 1719

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Sources:

Victor Hulke

Birth: 21 November 1842. Victor was named by the "gracious command" of Queen Victoria after Princess Victoria. Victor's father was in attendance of the Queen at Walmer Castle at the time of Victor's birth.

The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1842 (Printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington; London; 1843)
21. [November 1842] FIRST ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. - During Her Majesty's stay at Walmer Castle, Mr. William Hulke, a surgeon of Deal, was daily employed in attendance on the Royal infants. The wife of that gentleman during the same period was confined of a son, and the Queen graciously commanded that the child should be named Victor, after the Princess Royal, whose name is Victoria. To day upon visiting, professionally, the Princess Royal, as usual, Her Royal Highness, in a most graceful and artless manner, presented Mr. Hulke with an elegant gold pencil-case set with precious stones, and containing beautiful medallion portraits, in bas-relief, of her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, entwined with the Garter. The Princess rose from her chair, (being at breakfast at the time,) and addressing Mr. Hulke, said, "I have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke, (handing the pencil-case) - I beg you will give this to Victor as a present from me."

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Occupation: Clerk in the Audit Department of the India office

Death: 30 April 1861

Buried: St. Leonard's, Deal, Kent, England

Sources:

Walter Backhouse Hulke

Birth: 1872, in Deal, Kent, England

Father: Frederick Thomas Hulke

Mother: Charlotte (Backhouse) Hulke

Census:
1881: Admiralty House, Queen St, Deal, Kent

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 1583

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Mary

Sources:

William Hulke

Father: Robert Hulke

Married: Ellen Whale

Children:

William Hulke

Birth: 1666

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke

Notes: William is mentioned in the will of his mother, Elizabeth (Safrey) Hulke. "I give and bequeath unto my sonne William Hulke his executors admins and assignes in satisfaction of what is soe allothed unto him out of his said fathers personall estate All that tenement  or dwelling house the ground and appurtences thereunto belong. Situtate and being upon the Beach in Deale being leasehold under Mr Richard Gookin and now in the tenure or occupation of Arthur Wallenger or his assignes  Also I give and bequeath unto him my said sonne William the sume of Thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence to be paid unto him within six months next after my decease  Also I go give unto him seaven peeces of broad gold three silver spoones a gold ring marked E.H. all that bedsteede in the low roome in the house where I now dwell with all the bedding and furniture thereunto belonging as it now stands three paire of sheetes a diaper tablecloth a dozen of diaper napkins a paire of Holland pillow coats three pewter dishes a pewter Tanker a case of drawers standing in the Chamber in the messuage where I now dwell, and my part of a boate belonging to Deale beach."

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 1672

Father: George Hulke

Mother: Susan (_____) Hulke

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 1673

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ellen (Whale) Hulke

Married: Anne

Children:

William Hulke

Birth: 1688

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Jopton) Hulke

Married: Eleanor

Children: Death: 1739

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 1709

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth (Scodden) Hulke

Death:  1732


William Hulke

Birth: 1713

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Anne (_____) Hulke


William Hulke

Birth: 22 July 1714

Father: John Hulke

Mother: Sarah (Easter) Hulke

Married: Mary Breame on 7 April 1736, in Great Mongeham, Kent, England 


St. George's Church; Deal, Kent
Children: Occupation: Pilot and Mayor of Deal 1777 and 1778.

Death: 1781

Buried: St. George's, Deal, Kent, England

Sources:

William John Hulke

Birth: 1724

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Eleanor (_____) Hulke

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 26 November 1756

Father: Benjamin Hulke
St. Nicholas Church, Rochester, Kent (1807)

Mother: Frances (Manley) Hulke

Married: Ann Read on 25 March 1786 in St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, England

Children: Occupation: William was a surgeon, and made MD by King George IV. He was also a banker, and Mayor of Deal in 1782 and 1783.

Death: 20 July 1838, in Eastry district, Kent, England

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 1784

Father: Benjamin Hulke

Mother: Jane (_____) Hulke

Sources:

William Hulke

Birth: 10 August 1791

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Ann (Read) Hulke

Married: Elizabeth Pollard King on 1 November 1819

Children: Occupation: William was a medical practitioner in Deal. He was also physician to Walmer Castle in which capacity he attended Queen Victoria and her children, as well as the Duke of Wellington.

His attendance on Princess Victoria is recorded in the Annual Register of the time:
The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1842 edited by Edmund Burke (J. G. F. & J. Rivington; London; 1843)
21. [November 1842] FIRST ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. -  During Her Majesty's stay at Walmer Castle, Mr. William Hulke, a surgeon of Deal, was daily employed in attendance on the Royal infants.  The wife of that gentleman during the same period was confined of a son, and the Queen graciously commanded that the child should be named Victor, after the Princess Royal, whose name is Victoria.  To day upon visiting, professionally, the Princess Royal, as usual, Her Royal Highness, in a most graceful and artless manner, presented Mr. Hulke with an elegant gold pencil-case set with precious stones, and containing beautiful medallion portraits, in bas-relief, of her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, entwined with the Garter.  The Princess rose from her chair, (being at breakfast at the time,) and addressing Mr. Hulke, said, "I have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke, (handing the pencil-case) - I beg you will give this to Victor as a present from me."

At the time of this anecdote, Princess Victoria was exactly two years old, and the words ascribed to her above seem a little overdone. Another, somewhat more credible version of the incident (despite claiming incorrectly that Victoria was one, not two) is given in Popular Royalty by Arthur Henry Beaven (S. Low, Marston and co., 1904):
page 83, writing of the Princess Victoria...
   Most intelligent and precocious must she have been, as the following proves.  In 1842 she was taken with her baby-brother to Walmer Castle, which marine residence the Duke of Wellington had placed at the Queen's disposal after the birth of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Hulke, of Deal, attended the Royal infants  in a medical capacity during their visit to Walmer ; and his wife, who had presented him with a son on the first anniversary of the Princess Royal's birthday, was honoured by a communication from the Queen expressing a desire that the infant should be named Victor. A few days afterwards Mr. Hulke paid his usual visit to the little Princess, when, in the most graceful manner, she held out to him a gold pencil-case set with jewels, and containing medallion portraits of Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, at the same time asking him in very infantile, but perfectly distinct, accents to "give it to Victor as a present from me."

Death of rhe Duke of Wellington
Illustration of the "Last Moments of the Duke" from The Life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by J. H. Stocqueler
In attendance at the Duke's death were 
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Mr. Collins, the house-steward, and Kendall, his Grace's valet, and the three medical gentlemen, Dr. M'Arthur, Mr. William Hulke and Mr. Hulke, junior. The book does not record who is who in the illustration, but I would guess that Lord and Lady Wellesley are second and third on the left, and Collins and Kendall are also on the left with the three doctors on the right of the picture. William Hulke was 61 at the time so he may well be the older man closer to the foreground on the right.
In 1852, William Hulke was the attending physician at the death of the Duke of Wellington. The scene is recounted on page 261 of The Life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by J. H. (Joachim Hayward) Stocqueler (published by Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853):
It had been customary for the Duke's valet, Kendall, to call his Grace about six o'clock every morning.  On Tuesday morning, Kendall, on knocking at his Grace's door a quarter of an hour after the usual time, did not receive the customary response.  After waiting a few moments, he fancied he heard a strange kind of noise in the Duke's apartment.  On opening the door, the Duke appeared to recognise him as usual, and did not complain of illness.  Kendall, however, soon observed that his Grace was restless and uncomfortable ; and, in a few moments, the fact of  the noble Duke's illness was made apparent by his Grace exclaiming, somewhat abruptly, "Send for Mr. Hulke."  A messenger was instantly despatched to the residence of Mr. Hulke, a medical resident in the town of Deal, who has been accustomed to attend the Duke when at Walmer.  Mr. Hulke arrived at the castle at twenty minutes to eight o'clock.  The Duke was then reclining on his bed, and on his introduction, his Grace entered into conversation with him in a perfectly calm and collected manner, observing that he was suffering from an affection of the chest and stomach.  The doctor prescribed forthwith, and informed Lord Charles Wellesley that he did not consider there were any dangerous symptoms in his Grace's condition ; adding, that he had seen him much worse on former occasions.  Mr. Hulke was then alluding to an attack of a similar description years since.
   Mr. Hulke left the castle for Deal at eight o'clock, and he had not been home more than a quarter of an hour, when a second messenger arrived with the information that the Duke had been seized with what was described as an epileptic fit.  On this occasion Mr. Hulke was accompanied by Dr. M'Arthur of Walmer, and Mr. Hulke, jun.  They found that the Duke had been seized with a fit of the nature described, and that his servants had already adopted some remedial measures, by the application of mustard poultices.  The medical gentlemen adopted every remedy that science could suggest, but the attack failed to yield to their professional skill.  His Grace, from the moment he was seized with the fit, became speechless; but by gestures he appeared to desire a removal to a bed-chair, in which he was placed in a sitting posture, and so he continued until twenty minutes past three o'clock, when he expired as quietly as if falling into a slumber.  There was present at this solemn moment Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, the three medical gentlemen, Mr. Collins, the house-steward, and Kendall, his Grace's valet.

(The Mr. Hulke, jun. referred to could be either John Whitaker Hulke or Frederick Thomas Hulke, both doctor sons of William Hulke. I think it is more likely to be Frederick, who remained in Deal, rather than John who was perhaps already in London.)

Pigot's Directory for Deal & Kent in 1840 lists:
Surgeons: HULKE William, 155 Lower Street
(Note: Lower Street in 1840 is the street now, confusingly, called High Street! We see William's daughters living at 155 High Street in the 1881 and 1891 censuses)

Death:
12 July 1865

Buried: 1865, in St. Leonard's, Upper Deal, Kent.

Sources:

William King Hulke

Birth: 1820

Father: William Hulke

Mother: Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Married: Ann Street

Notes: William emigrated to New Zealand in 1840 settling in New Plymouth in 1847. He established a flour mill and nursery, but is best known as a pioneer of the dairy industry in Taranaki. Hulke served in the New Zealand Wars. He wrote diaries now kept in the New Plymouth District Libraries Te Maataapuna Pukapuka aa Rohe o Pukeariki. The diaries were kept while he was a signalman at the Hua Fort, better known as the Bell Block stockade. At this centre all messages were received from surrounding districts and forwarded to headquarters at Marsland Hill, New Plymouth. The diaries include the wording of signals that Hulke received and sent. He includes his own remarks about the day-to-day operation of the war.

Death: 1908

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