William married first Sarah Ives Baxter of Itteringham in St. Mary's Church, Itteringham (left) in 1826. Their daughter Mary was born at Itteringham in 1827. But in 1834 William, now a widower, was married again, in Itteringham, to Hannah Barwick. Their banns were called in the parish of Little Barningham, and in that parish's banns book both of them are described as belonging to "Mannington". But there was at this time no church or village at Mannington, only a moated medieval house built in 1460 that had been in the possession of the Walpole family since 1720. In the 1830s it was occupied by tenant farmers. William Tuck may have worked for them, or for the Walpoles; in 1835 the Mannington records show him as a tenant of the Walpoles.

Little Barningham and Itteringham are the nearest villages to Mannington.

Joseph and Elizabeth are buried in the north-west corner of Little Barningham churchyard, together with their grandson, Charles Tuck, son of William and Hannah (Barwick) Tuck, who died in Norwich May 6, 1868. The inscription on their gravestone reads, "In memory of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Joseph Tuck, who died March 18th, 1868, aged 85 years. She was a good wife and a tender mother. Also Joseph Tuck, husband of the above, who died April 4th, 1868, aged 84 years. He was a loving husband and a tender father. "

The fact that these three Tucks (the parents and a son of William Tuck) who died in 1868 have substantial gravestones suggests that the four brothers - all now in Ontario and prosperous - sent money home so that their parents might have a stone on their grave. In 1881, the year after Hannah died, William was living with his daughter Dorcas and her husband, Charles Lambert, and their daughter, Hannah Lambert, who was born in 1880, in "The Street", at Little Barningham. However, William was at Wickmere when he died March 4, 1890, at the age of 84. He was buried in Little Barningham churchyard, as was Hannah when she died, aged 64 on June 6, 1879; but they have no gravestones. No record of the death and burial of William's first wife, Sarah Ives Baxter, has yet been found.

William Tuck, 1806 - 1890 (above left), his second wife, Hannah Barwick (centre left); their son, John Tuck (centre right), 1842 - 1910, with his wife, Harriett Tuck, 1850 - 1914, the daughter of Charles Tuck, 1808 - 1877, and Mary Ann Payne; their children, John Wesley Tuck and Ethel Tuck, photographed c.1884; Charles Wesley Tuck, now grown up and shown with his wife, Edith Emma Anderson, and their children, Evelyn, Dorothy and Margaret, photographed at Waterdown, Ontario, in 1916 (right). (Photos courtesy Timothy Tuck Smith)

(Thanks to Ann Dea Hogan of Tennessee for this account of the Tuck History, which is undergoing ongoing development as time passes; also thanks to cousins Doug Hines, Timothy Tuck Smith, Bruce Atkins, Ann Denton and Dr. Nancy Vivian for their input, and to Karen Alton, for the Charles Tuck story. Much of the genealogical material was collected originally by Ruth Vivian of Burlington. See also Burlington: Memories of Pioneer Days by Dorothy Turcotte, and published The Boston Mills Press. Any corrections and additions may be communicated to Bob Tuck rctuck@maplewoodmall.ca)