Downy McDuck

Downy O'Drake (1830-1897) is Scrooge McDuck's mother and appeared in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Although nothing much is known about Scrooge's mother, she was born, probably somewhere in Ireland, in 1830. Her pre-marriage name O'Drake sounds Irish, and when asked about her ethnicity Don Rosa stated: "I guess. I was just trying to think up another ducky sounding name, but didn't want to use "Mc" again. Ireland is nearby, and I didn't have any "O" names yet".

In 1867 she married Fergus McDuck of the old Scottish clan McDuck and later had three children: Scrooge, Matilda, and Hortense.

Her death in 1897 is mentioned in a letter from her husband Fergus addressed to their son Scrooge, in The King of the Klondike from 1992.