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A DUXBURY Family Website
Duxbury Hall in 1846
Please note revised URL & E-mail addresses
My cousin, Peter Duxbury, spent
many hours assembling the information for this Duxbury website. Now that he is no longer with us, it would
be a pity if his work did not remain available to others and hence I agreed to
take over the maintenance of the site.
I will not be able to devote the time and resources that Peter did, but
I hope to be able to keep the information up to date when I receive relevant
information from others.
Peter said that it was only a matter of time before links were found between the three main lines of Duxbury.
Unfortunately this was not to happen in
his lifetime, but it would be a fitting memorial to Peter if the connections
between these three lines could be shown on the web site which he established.
Those of you who have visited this web site before will notice changes. These have been brought about by my need to source appropriate
software to maintain the site, as it was not clear what software Peter had been
using.
If you have information to update the details on this site, please let me know and also provide me with
the source of that information.
May 2008
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A message from Margaret Duxbury |
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Peter Norman Duxbury
1943-2005 I write to bring the sad news that Peter died of
multiple myeloma on 7th September 2005. I thank those with whom I have already been in
contact for their kind condolences. I was married to Peter for 39 years. He was a
kind, generous and loving husband and I and the family miss him very much.
Many of you know that for many years he was dogged by depression but when he
was well, he was fun, had a great sense of humour, was highly intelligent, lively
minded and had a great sense of curiosity. Peter was, of course, a Lancastrian and very
proud of his ancestry. His initial interest in his family tree was stimulated
by his cousin, Ronald, who, many moons ago, produced a paper version of the
immediate family. In the late 1990s he was in contact with Tony Foster and
Helen Moorwood and began to put together much of the information that they
(and others) provided onto a website. So began worldwide contacts with
members of various lines of the Duxbury family, many of whom visited him here
in Milton Keynes and who were a source of great pleasure to him. I remember him poring over birth, marriage and
death certificates, sometimes soliciting my help to decipher them. He would
also search the available censuses discovering where Duxburys lived and the
jobs they did providing him with an insight into the kinds of lives they led
often in Lancashire cotton towns. The names of characters such as Henri de
Duxbury from the 12th century became familiar to me and perhaps more
particularly Miles Standish, the Pilgrim Fathers, the town of Duxbury in
Massachusetts, the possible link to Deorwuc in the 9th or 10th century (I
think!). Then there were the contemporary Duxbury names – Helen
Moorwood, Tony Foster, Ray Aspden, Geoff Duxbury in the UK; Don and Ruth,
Doris Forkin, Marilyn Cox, John T. Duxbury and Emily in the USA; Jack
Dukesbury in Indonesia; Susan Neumann in Germany and many others. Peter leaves me, his wife, two sons, Mark and
Michael, a dear daughter-in-law, Neung from Thailand, and a delightful
granddaughter, Jennifer – and we look forward to a new addition to the family
in December. We all miss Peter very much but I am blessed with a kind and
loving family and many good friends. I would also like to pay tribute to Peter’s
friend, Jerry Dennis, who has been a great help to me in sorting out
technical issues on the computers including the website, and continues to do
so. With good wishes to you all. Margaret Duxbury (May 2006) |
