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Feake

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  • Name Feake 
    Born Bef 1476  of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I4581  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William Feake,   b. Bef 1454, of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 19 Mar 1496 to 11 Oct 1500, Hindringham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 42 years) 
    Mother Marianne,   b. Bef 1456, of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1496, of Hindringham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 42 years) 
    Married Bef 1476  of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2109  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Keen,   b. Bef 1474, of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1496  of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2110  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
      "Midway across the north coast of Norfolk lies the Hundred of North Greenhoe and in it, about three miles south of the sea, the parish, sometime manor, of Wighton in which the Feake family, as early as 1435, is found numerously settled. That this family reached prominence only after certain of its sons migrated to London in the sixteenth century and there became prosperous goldsmiths is evident from the complete absence of the surname from the "Visitations of Norfolk in 1563, 1589, and 1613" (Harleian Society, vol. 32), the "Visitations of Norfolk in 1664" (ibid. vol. 81; Norfolk Record Society, vols. 4-5), and Walter Rye's great work, "Norwich Families" (Norwich, 1913). The London branch of the family is represented in the records of colonial America by Henry Feake of Lynn, Sandwich, and Flushing (no. 46); by Henry's second cousin, Lieutenant Robert Feake of Watertown, Dedham, and Greenwich (no. 49); by Robert's niece Judith, wife successively, of William Palmer, Jeffrey Ferris, and John Bowers (no. 87); and by Judith's brother, Captain Tobias Feake, R.N., of Flushing (no. 88).
      Since extensive and on the whole accurate accounts of the American careers of the three men were long ago printed by the late John J. Latting in "The Record," vol. II, beginning with page 12, we here turn our attention rather to the English ancestry of these four colonists which Mr. Latting was unable to identify, though he gathered some useful material on the subject.
      The wills, parish registers, and other ancillary sources normally used for such a study as this, have in the present instance been augmented by framework derived from the following seventeenth-century pedigrees, none of which is at all complete, though they fit together with a minimum of inconsistency: (a) a pedigree made in 1623 for Edward Feake, son of William and grandson of James Feake of Wighton, published by Joseph Jackson Howard, ed., "Visitacon of Surry Made A° 1623, by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herauld, and Augustyne Vincent, Rougcroix (London, no date), p.7; (b) the same pedigree with additions dating from 1667 taken from Harleian MS 1430, fol. 50, printed in the Surrey Archaeological Collections 6:310 f.; (c) a pedigree made in 1634 for John Feake, son of John, grandson of Simon, and great-grandson of the aforesaid James Feake of Wighton, contained in the Visitation of London in 1634 (Harleian Society 15:268); (d) a version of the preceding, dated 1664, taken by Mr. Latting from Harleian MS 1096, fol. 119, and, so far as we are aware, now in print only in "The Record,"11:13; (e) a partial pedigree continuing the two preceding, to be found in the "Visitation of Staffordshire 1663-4" (Staffordshire Record Society 5:126 f.); and (f) a variant of the last included in Gregory King's Staffordshire Pedigrees 1680-1700" (Harleian Society 63:85). See also John Ross Delafield, "Delafield the Family History" (privately printed, 1945), 2:540-6, appendix 16 on Feake; and Charles E. Banks, Manuscripts in the Rare Book Room, Library of Congress, folio vol. DG, p. 433. Considerable information has been generously made available by Messrs. John Insley Coddington and Clarence Almon Torrey; from the latter, especially, many items discovered by Colonel Banks but not included in the volume cited above...
      William Feake, the earliest definite ancestor of the family which in the sixth and seventh generations from him sent scions across the sea, dated his will on the Saturday before the Feast of the Annunciation, that is, he signed on the 19th of March, in the year 1496, probated at Hyndryngham, Oct. 11, 1500 (Archdeaconry of Norwich: 92). [?]ance. Household goods are left to unnamed sons and daughters; to Elene, wife's sister, 6/8; to James, two horses; to William, five marks; to wife Marianne alias Marion a messuage, lands, and cattle; to William Keen, probably a son-in-law, preferment of certain lands in the east field of Wyghton and in the fields of Walsingham, etc.; to son James similar preferment in lands in Westfield of Wyghton and Hindringham, to which son William is remainder man; executors: William Keen and John Dobbes. The Plea Rolls for 1501 show that Henry Barbour, chaplain, by his attorney, brought action against John Dobbs of Wyghton, executor of William Feke, for a debt. "About the same time," so Delafield dates it, James Feke, aet. 17, son and heir of William, sued in chancery, stating that John Dobbes and others held property of William, committed waste, and pulled down a house (Early Chancery Proceedings C I, Bundle 254, no.15). Children: 4 (or more):
      i. James; b. ca. 1484, d. by 1523.
      ii. William, perhaps William ffekes, clerk, parson of Ufford, co. Suffolk, unless the parson was son of James (no. 2) or not even related; made his will April 1, 1534, probated May 12, 1569 (Consistory Court of Norwich: 135 Ponder): directs burial in the Chancel of Ufford; leaves to its parishioners xs to be bestowed in bread and drink, and makes executor and residuary legatee William Willibi, knight, Lord Williby of Parham; witnesses: Roger Smallyde, Henry Smallyde, Thomas Angell et al. The reason for including this parson in the Wighton family is the fact that at Wighton the Feakes were related to Angells.
      iii. Daughter, probably m. William Keen.
      iv. Daughter, perhaps m. John Dobbes."