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  Jake McDuck
  
Name:    Jake McDuck
Address:    It seems that he used to live in Scotland.
Born:    1832 in Glasgow?, Scotland.
Died:    19?? in Scotland?
First appearance:    He was first mentioned in 1952 in the Barks classic A Christmas For Shacktown when Donald went to Scrooge dressed as him, in the hope that Scrooge would give him some money for a toy-train for the poor children in Shacktown. Donald's attempt failed because Scrooge remembered that his uncle Jake once borrowed some money from him and had never paid back.
Created by:    Carl Barks
Father:    "Dirty" Dingus McDuck
Mother:    Molly Mollard
Siblings:    Angus "Pothole" McDuck (brother)
Fergus McDuck (brother)
Spouse:    None
Children:    None
Other close relatives:    The Clan McDuck
Occupation:    He was a stockyard hand in Glasgow?
Member of:    ?
Drives:    ?

The name for Jake McDuck in some other languages:

Language:     Name:
Danish: Jakob von And
Dutch (in the Netherlands):   Jakob (Jaap) McDuck
Finnish: Jake McAnnka
French: Jack McPicsou
German: Jakob Duck
Italian: Zio Jake
Norwegian: Jakob McDuck
Portuguese: Nicolau Patusco (in Brazil).
Spanish (in Spain): Jake McPato
Swedish: Jakob von Anka
   Jake McDuck

Biography:

Jake McDuck was born in Glasgow?, Scotland in 1832 as the youngest of three siblings. In page 7 of his unpublished sketches for chapter I of Lo$ Don Rosa shows that Jake worked as a stockyard hand, probably in Glasgow.

In page 7 of his unpublished sketches for chapter I of Lo$ Don Rosa shows that Jake never married.

Jake McDuck died, probably somewhere in Scotland, sometime after 1900.


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