Lawrence ^ RUCK

Lawrence ^ RUCK[1]

Male 1663 - 1715  (~ 51 years)

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  • Name Lawrence ^ RUCK 
    Christened 3 Dec 1663  Bekesbourne, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried 2 Apr 1715  Preston-Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3682  Young Kent Ancestors
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2022 

    Father Valentine RUCK,   c. 14 Oct 1631, Lower Hardres, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 1 Dec 1695, Preston-Faversham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Mother Katherine SCITHE,   b. Abt 1642, Bekesbourne, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 22 May 1662  Lower Hardres, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Amy BALDOCK 
    Married 6 Dec 1698  St. James, Duke's Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F1462  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Clare NICHOLSON,   bur. 24 Sep 1741, Doddington, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 5 Mar 1715/1716  Ospringe, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • by licences
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2022 
    Family ID F1463  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Died d.s.p.


      1280. Indictment of John Jones of Boughton under Blean, labourer, for murder. By an inquisition held at Boughton, 3 July 1686, before Thomas Turner, esq., coroner, on the body of an unknown man, a jury - Robert Clinton, John Edmunds, Edward Johnson, John Goldsmith, James Johnson, John Hickes, Abraham Skilton, Lawrence Rucke, Edward Bushell, William Hind, Paul Hill, William Henman, Henry Langley, Charles, London, Thomas Brisley, Robert Purking, Edward Norwood, John Chillenden, John Pye, Nicholas Fouroy, Hugh Price - found that on 2 July 1686 at Boughton, Jones stabbed the man in the neck with a knife (4d.) and killed him. [indictment endorsed] John Adderton, James Barrett, Richard Wiles, George Askew, William Michell, William Powell, Robert Renn. True bill. Confessed; to hand. [mm. 12, 13] [Maidstone Assizes, 27 July 1686, before Edward Herbert, CJ, and Francis Wythens, J. (Assizes 35/127/7)

  • Sources 
    1. [S94] Will Transcript, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/), 6 Jun 1716.
      d 11 March 1714/15 Probate 6 Jun 1716

      Laurence Ruck of Ospringe, gent Buried at discretion of executor Lands, etc at Whitehill in Ospringe, church lease of parsonage of Preston next Faversham, ditto of Copton Woods in Preston next Faversham and Throwley to my COUSIN Adam Ruck of Folkestone

      After his decease to LAURENCE RUCK, his son; after Laurence Ruck's decease to his eldest son [Thomas] If said eldest son die without male issue, to next surviving son [that Thomas died in 1768 so he was the last surviving son]. Otherwise to ADAM RUCK [wife Sarah Shipwash] son of aforesaid ADAM RUCK AND heirs; if none, then to his brother Thomas Ruck [died from 21 Jun 1714 to 13 Apr 1715] and heirs, if none, to brother Valentine Ruck [died 1729] and heirs, if none then to Simon Ruck of Throwley and his heirs.

      Message or tenement of nethergong in Chislet to my cousin GEORGE KNOWLER of Canterbury, Gent and Susan his wife

      Messuage or tenement called "The Sign of the Ship" at Faversham (which came by my late wife Amy, deceased) now occupied by John Amis and George Weldish, 1/2 share of message or tenement in Graveney now occupation by William Howland and messuage or tenement called Brook near Brook Forstall in Ospringe, now occupied by James Wood and messuage or tenement called Ireland Barn near Dorkley Hole in Esling [Eastling] now occupied by Edward Jackson; and farm called Dark Acre in preston next Wingham, now occupied by Edward Wigmore and Rounds Wood in Preston and Coney Wood in Ospringe and messuage or tenement at Gushmer in Selling now occupied by Robert Norham and Parsonage Barn in Preston and messuage or tenement in Boughton under Blean called George House and Stile House now occupation by Paul Gill and ----; and woods in Esling occupied by Amos Jacob; to my cousin Laurence Ruck and his heirs etc. If none, etc (Laurence, Adam, Thomas and Valentine Ruck, minors).

      To my cousin William Whitefield of Kennington, Gent, GB20.

      Residue to cousin Adam Ruck the father, he to be executor.
      Witnesses: John Preston, George Wildish, George Carter