#downey o'drake

The Duck Family Tree according to DuckTales 2017!

Some notes:

The characters with gray names (HDL's dad, Daphne Duck, Goosetave Gander, Eider Duck, Lulubelle Loon, Humperdink Duck, and Gertrude Gadwall) aren't 100% confirmed to exist in the canon of DT17, but can be inferred to for various reasons.

The images of the ones I just mentioned plus Pothole McDuck, Silas McDuck, Sir "Black" Donald McDuck, Sir Puft McDuck, Malcolm "Matey" McDuck, and Sir Quackly McDuck aren't from DT17, these characters were never shown physically in the show but I still wanted there to be something to look at.

Grandma Duck is only mentioned in the comics, which didn't have involvement from the creators of the show, but I decided to include her anyway because they said the comics only aren't canon in cases where they contradict the show.

The McDuck ancestors (aka the ones under Scrooge's grandparents) are in order from left to right acccording to the "Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History!" book. The only exception is Countess Agnes McDuck since we have no information of when she was alive, so I made the choice to place her between Eider and Quackly considering her Countess title, how she doesn't seem to know Murdoch and Agnes in the episode she appears, and how Eider appears to be the oldest recorded McDuck.

This time I want to talk about Brigitta Macbridge. She is best know as Kaczencja Pazur but apparently in her first issues in polish her name was changed 3 times before they sattle with it. I don’t even know any comics with those translations so they must be quite early ones.  Bredzia McBredź, Brygida McBridge  or Kwaudia. To be honest, I like Kaczencja best. But I will try to cover all of them. Bredzia McBredź - 'Bredzić' means speaking gibberish, with prabobly is all about her crazy character, I also think that's sound a lot like her original name. Brygida McBridge - There's not a lot to talk about here, it's just polish version of name Brigitta with her original surname. Kwaudia - This is a mash of word 'kwa' = 'quack' and name 'Klaudia'  ('Claudia') And finaly: Kaczencja Pazur - This name is most likely reference to polish name of marsh-marigold with is commonly known as 'duck flower' ( kaczeniec), 'Pazur' means 'claw' with maybe reference to her fightsty nature or just a bird pun. interestingly enough she shares her name with other Duckverse character:

Yes, t’s one and only Scrooge's mother - Kaczencja O’Draka.

I find it cute that two special ladies in his life share the same name.

Maiden name ‘O’Draka’ means ‘O’Fight’ - I wonder if thats just weak attempt to sound like Drake or small indication that her daughter  Hortense and she, shere more characteristic, then we are lead to belive. ;-P

But there's also alternative version of Scrooge's mother from Zio Paperone e l'oro del Klondike ("Uncle Scrooge and the Gold of the Klondike")

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW 

In the first shot Downey looked as pissed as Fergus and Scrooge, but now she’s happy to see him. I think that means they still don’t have a good relationship. but she still loves him and the few times she gets to see him. It’s sweet.

She passed him every morning while he worked the market, getting her groceries and hurrying back to wherever she lived. It was love at first sight for Fergus McDuck. She would occasionally smile or wave at him while he worked, which would make his entire day all the more lovely. 

When he finally worked up the courage to ask her name, her voice rang in his head the rest of the day "Downey O'Drake".... She sounded like the blossoms in May and she smelled like the broad rolling fields of heather where the air was free. 

She was a shy and modest young woman, but he somehow managed to woo her nonetheless, despite being of the same poor social standing. The very next spring, they sold all of their jewelry and fineries to pay for their wedding and future home. It was a small wedding; both of their families being quite meager, and the home was nothing to elicit awe, but they christened that tiny flat with enough love to make Scotland sing...

Fergus and Downey McDuck appreciation post.