Amy Richenda RUCK

1850 - 1876  (26 years)

• Name	Amy Richenda RUCK
  Birth	1850
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Sep 1876
  Burial	Holy Trinity Church, Corris, North Wales
  Person ID	I0057	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 May 2016

  
  

  Father	Lawrence RUCK,   b. 1819, Hartlip, Kent, England d. 1896 ??, Wales
  Mother	Mary Anne MATTHEWS,   b. 1822, Esgair Leverin, Pennal, Merioneth, Wales d. 1905, Wales (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1841
  Notes	Marriage date is date of Faculty Office marriage licence.
  Family ID	F3387	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sir Francis Darwin,   b. 16 Aug 1848, Down House, Downe, Kent, England d. 19 Sept 1925, Cambridge, England (Age 77 years)
  Children	1. Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin,   b. 7 Sept 1876   d. 18 Oct 1961 (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 May 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Burial - - Holy Trinity Church, Corris, North Wales  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Died 4 days after giving birth to Bernard Darwin. Notes from http://www.findagrave.com/ "Frank married and brought his charming young Welsh bride, Amy Ruck, ... had been school friends of Amy's brothers, and had visited her family at Pantlladw." (qv Edna Healey, 2001) Amy Richenda Darwin (nee Ruck) is buried in Holy Trinity Church, Corris, Wales; in her letters to him she slips easily into Welsh; Pantlladw was paradise, her home a 'tiny grey house set on a little plateau carved out of a hill side'." (qv Edna Healey, 2001). According to a letter written by Charles Darwin to his close friend, Joseph Dalton Hooker: " I never saw anyone suffer so much as poor Frank. He has gone to N. Wales to bury the body in a little church-yard amongst the mountains". Gravestone reads: "Gwywa a gwelltyn syrth y blodewyn ond gair ein Duw ni a saif byth" or "the grass withereth, the flower fadeth but the word of our god shall stand for ever" (from Isaiah).