List of members of the Clan McDuck Totally Explained

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This is a list of members of the fictional Clan McDuck, all of whom are characters owned by the Walt Disney Company. While the best known members of the Clan – namely Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck – are multimedia characters, most of these characters' appearances are limited to Disney comics books. The list doesn't only include characters surnamed McDuck, but also spouses and children of McDucks.

Ancient and medieval

Sir Eider McDuck

Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.
Sir Eider was born in Scotland in 880. Later in his life, he became the leader of The Clan McDuck. In 946, the castle was under siege by Anglo-Saxons, raiders who didn't care about the treaty that King Edmund I of England and King Malcolm I of Scotland signed in 945. Sir Eider didn't supply arrows for his men and paid them only 30 pieces of copper an hour. His under-paid men abandoned their lord to save their lives, and Sir Eider died fighting the raiders alone.
Sir Eider was buried in the family cemetery, and his armour was placed in one of the castle's hallways.

Sir Quackly McDuck

Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story "The Old Castle's Secret" by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree. He also appears as a ghost in Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
   Sir Quackly was born in Scotland in the year 1010. He was very gluttonous. The clan was until then one of the richest in Scotland, but that changed in 1189. He was asked by King William I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of England's terms for a treaty that been signed between them. The treaty said that if William offered to Richard 10.000 marks he'd be free. William would be freed of his oath of subservience to Richard. Out of patriotism Roast obeyed his king's wishes. That later led to financial problems and decline of the clan. Later Roast's relationship with the king became tensed. In 1205 he raided the king's cellar. He died a little later due to indigestion. He continued working on Mississippi riverboats and he'd obtained his own by 1861, named Cotton Queen. Around the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865) he became quite successful as a riverboater. Soon after the end of the war in 1865 he and fellow riverboater Porker Hogg became the two owners of Cornpone Gables, a southern plantation that had gone bankrupt. The two were unable to settle their differences and they decided to have a riverboat race in 1870 to decide who would be the single owner. Both riverboats sunk. Porker had two more riverboats but Angus spent the next ten years as a professional card player.
   In 1880, in a poker game with Porker, Angus won the rights to one of his rival's riverboats, named Dilly Dollar. Porker soon lost his other riverboat to Blackheart Beagle and his sons, the first generation of Beagle Boys, a family of outlaws, and retired. Angus on the other hand hired his nephew Scrooge McDuck and a penniless inventor named Ratchet Gearloose as his crew. Business wasn't going well and Angus decided to retire in 1882 . He left his riverboat to his nephew and settled down in New Orleans. In the story "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" by Don Rosa, he's seen appearing at Buffalo Bill's Wild West. After the show's money is stolen by the Dalton Brothers, Angus rides out with Bill, Scrooge, P.T. Barnum, Annie Oakley, and Geronimo to stop the bandits He married Molly Mallard and had three sons: Angus McDuck, Jake McDuck, and Fergus McDuck.
   In a 1960s story by Bob Gregory and Tony Strobl Scrooge's grandfather is referred to as Titus McDuck. According to Don Rosa he'd probably have used that name in his Family Tree if he'd known of it.

Fergus McDuck

Fergus McDuck (1835) is a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. He was Scrooge McDuck's father.
   He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1835 to "Dirty" Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard, both working as coal miners at the time. He spent most of his life as a mill worker.
   According to a story by William Van Horn, Fergus at some point had a short marriage with an unidentified woman, with whom he'd the son Rumpus McFowl. He later married Downy O'Drake, his wife in Rosa's stories, who became the mother of three of his children: Scrooge McDuck, Matilda McDuck, and Hortense McDuck. An Italian character, Gideon McDuck, might also be a son of Fergus.
   The rest of Fergus' biography is shown in The Lifes and Times of Scrooge McDuck. In 1877 he encouraged his son to work to have his own money. Scrooge's obvious intelligence, skill at hard work and ambition made his father believe that Scrooge would be able to restore The Clan McDuck to its former glory. While Scrooge was away Fergus and his family moved back to Castle McDuck, abandoned for centuries, in Dismal Downs. The family continued to work to pay for the taxes and Scrooge sent them most all of the money he earned while traveling. Fergus became a widower in 1897.
   Scrooge became rich in the Klondike and returned to Scotland in 1902 as a billionaire. Scrooge's intention was originally to settle in Dismal Downs but he quickly changed his mind and decided to settle in the United States. He wanted to take his family with him. His sisters accepted but Fergus decided to stay. He died during the night, aged 67, and his three children left Scotland.

Hugh "Seafoam" McDuck

Captain Hugh "Seafoam" McDuck first appeared in an untitled Carl Barks story (known as "The Horseradish Story"), where the story of Swindle McSue's trickery on Seafoam is used as back-story. The character's story was later expanded by Don Rosa, and he appears among the McDucks in heaven in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. He grew wealthy transporting merchandise between the United Kingdom and the West Indies.
In 1753 his luck was over. He signed a contract with Swindle McSue to deliver a chest full of horse radish to Jamaica. Three weeks later his ship sunk along with the chest before reaching Jamaica.
Malcolm McDuck lost his life on December 9, 1564 when the Spanish fleet sunk the "Falcon Rover" along with its entire crew.

Molly Mallard

Molly Mallard was created by Don Rosa for his Duck Family Tree and hasn't appeared in any stories. She was the wife of Dingus McDuck and had three sons: Angus McDuck, Jake McDuck, and Fergus McDuck.
Molly's name might be a reference to a Dublin fishmonger Molly Malone from a famous Irish folk song of the same name. However Don Rosa has admitted he doesn't remember anymore how he came up with the name.

Downy O'Drake

Downy O'Drake is Scrooge McDuck's mother. She was created by Don Rosa and appears in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and on the Duck Family Tree.
   Of Irish origin, she was born in 1840, the most credible newspaper in Duckburg. Gideon also has an antagonistic relationship with his brother Scrooge.
   The character was created by Romano Scarpa, and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956. The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch (where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
   Matilda McDuck was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1871 to Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake.
   In the story "The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter From Home" (2004), Don Rosa used Matilda McDuck in a non-Life and Times story for the first time. In this story, it's shown that she was hired by her nephew Donald Duck to tend the McDuck castle in Scotland. The story shows the reconciliation between Matilda and Scrooge. It is suggested that Donald deliberately set them up for a reunion. This is the first time Huey, Dewey and Louie met their great aunt. In that story, Scrooge returns to the McDuck Castle for another treasure and learns from Matilda that his family already knew about the treasure but their father Fergus decided not to tell Scrooge about it. Both Scrooge and Matilda thought that was because of Fergus' disapproval of Scrooge's greedy ways but after finding a letter on the way for the treasure (hence the other title "A Letter from Home") they learn Fergus's real motive was the fact he thought Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of simply inheriting one.
   Matilda, while trying to leave the castle, mentions Hortense. However, in the commentary in the American printing of the story, Don Rosa states that he was prevented from using Hortense because he'd have had to explain why she'd abandoned her family. So Hortense's fate is still left as a mystery.
   Matilda is usually drawn with a flower on her hat, which loses a petal in each panel she appears in.
   Don Rosa has suggested that Matilda McDuck could have married the well-known Disney character Ludwig von Drake. This theory is well known among fans, but has never been shown in any story.

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