Hi Melanie,
Still finding my way round this site. I've been researching family for years and only just found rootschat. Can't find the last post I wrote to Don.
Anyway, the Tuckney I have found was born in Enfield, Middx, c.1855. He is definitely the man in the photograph. He married Elizabeth Scribbins in late 1879. So far I haven't found any children.
In my previous message I mentioned Edward Tuckney Wilmot. I believe he adopted the name Tuckney around the time he married, as I can't find any reference to it in any previous census forms. They must have all known each other.
My Gt. Grandfather was also Edward Wilmot. He married Maria Scribbins, sister of Elizabeth, in 1877, (still have orignal Marriage Cert.)
How Tuckney and Elizabeth met, I have no idea. (I do know how Edward and Maria met.) The three Scribbins sisters, together with their parents came to London from Somerset.
Back to Tuckney. The line I've followed in the 1851 census shows another one also born in Enfield, and so were his parents. Another member of the family was born in Cheshunt, which as you probably know is just North of Enfield.
Strangely, a visitor on the census, is George Tuck Smith, born in Scotland.
In 1841 census there seems to be only two. One Tuckney b. Enfield c.1825, and Tuckney, son of Tuckney and Rebecca, b. 1832 in Lincolnshire. There doesn't seem to be any evidence connecting these two, but who knows?
Sorry if this is a bit garbled.
Best wishes
Rick