Talk:Sherbro Tuckers

Notability
I found no evidence that the Tuckers were a clan. There are a family. The references are very poor. The 129 page book by Peter L. Tucker The Tuckers of Sierra Leone, 1665-1914 was published about 1997, but there is no publisher or place of publication data for it, see. It may be a vanity press publication, but it is unclear as no copies are available to me on interlibrary loan. It looks as though the editor/author mostly took the list of book citations from a Google book search of "Tucker + Sherbro" and "Caulkers + Sherbro" and dumped it in the reference section. The specific entries add very little, for example, the entry http://books.google.com/books?id=zmgYSuOAkS8C&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=sherbro+caulkers&source=web&ots=GZBht_Ev8Y&sig=jrOlgtRVvS8nSk_DqQU8c7MynI8 has no mention of the Tuckers, but has language about the Caulkers that is used by the author/editor to describe the Tuckers in the article. The entry http://books.google.com/books?id=npUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=sherbro+tuckers#PPA76,M1 has only this to say about the Tuckers: This is also true of the Tuckers and many others on the west coast of Africa. namely that they had English blood on their paternal side. Or this one http://books.google.com/books?id=QN62ci99H7oC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=sherbro+tuckers&source=web&ots=OGbmgW5H6K&sig=o0Hqg0eXHI6HQ5RL-cyliu1HHhI#PPA293,M1 which only says: They, like the Tuckers and the Clevelands, were descendants of European slave dealers, and their pursuits were the same. Some don't discuss the family, but just a specific Tucker, such as http://books.google.com/books?id=C4GuwL1cgnEC&pg=PA36&dq=Sherbro+Cleveland&sig=rsRwn1MsjXJAHkXDy8x7J-J5tDg which talks about Henry Tucker the notorious slave trader. Based upon the review of the available sources, I am not convinced that the family is particularly notable, although the Sherbro and their activities are. They have their own article. --Bejnar (talk) 22:51, 9 November 2012 (UTC)


 * One decade later, still not better.  Chamaemelum  (  talk  ) 01:27, 7 July 2023 (UTC)