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James Feake

Male Aft 1505 - 1539  (< 32 years)


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  • Name James Feake 
    Born Aft 1505  Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 23 Jan 1538/1539 to 18 Jul 1539  Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4801  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father James Feake,   b. 1484, of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1523, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 38 years) 
    Married Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2112  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Agnes Framyngham,   b. Bef 1509, of Colthorpp, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Aft 1528  of Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. George Feake,   b. Abt 1529, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1595, , Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)
     2. Simon Feake,   b. Abt 1531, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 12 Jun 1570, Kettleston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years)
     3. James Feake,   b. Abt 1533, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1590, Saint John Zachary, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     4. Robert Feake,   b. Abt 1535, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1570, of Wells next the Sea, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years)
     5. William Feake,   b. Abt 1537, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 7 May 1595 to 19 May 1595, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years)
     6. Edmond or Edward Feake,   b. Abt 1539, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Foulsham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2175  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...
      James Feake, whom we tentatively identify as son of the preceding James Feake (no. 2) and not as son of William (no. 1), was one of the feoffees to uses appointed in 1533 under the will of Walter Brightmer of Wighton deceased (Wighton Deeds, Bundle 3, no. 16). As the name Walter does not appear in the Feaké family, we forbear to suggest that James Feake's mother was daughter to Brightmer.
      This James Feake of Wighton made his will Jan. 23, 1538/9, probated at Walsingham July 18, 1539 (Norwich Archdeaconry Court – the abstract printed by Delafield is not quite perfect in that it omits the son James). Executors are son George and wife Agnes; supervisor, Edmond Framyngham of Colthorpp; witnesses; Simon Browen, vicar, Robert Glaise, Simon Dobyn, John M[er]chaunt et al. Burial is directed in the "north ile next to the Sepulchre of my Father" in the church of Wighton. Son George appears to be eldest, still a minor; other sons are Simon, James, Robert, and William, and the wife is named Agnes. As the son William had a brother Edmond Feake, and as the son George was in 1578 given a power of attorney by Edmund Framyngham, either the supervisor of the will or his son, we think it possible that Agnes was a Framyngham.
      We identify this testator as the James Feake of Wighton who was certainly father to the London goldsmith William Feake (no. 13), and in turn grandfather or great-grandfather of three of the four American Feakes. He is called Jacobus Feake de Whighton in Norfolk in the 1623 pedigree, James Feake of Wighton in the 1664 pedigree, his generation being omitted in the others. We think it likely that the widow gave birth to a posthumous son Edmond or Edward (no. 14), and then subsequently married, second, a man named Angell, by which marriage she became, ultimately if not at once, the mother or stepmother, or the mother-in-law or stepmother-in-law, of a woman whose surname in 1595 was Jygg and of men named John Angell and William Angell. The children of sister Jygg and of brothers John Angell and William Angell appear as beneficiaries of William Feake's will in 1595 but their inheritance is only a fraction of that received by children of William Feake's blood brothers. William Angell and John Angell appear, with George Feake, clerke, among others, on a muster roll of Wighton dating from the period 1569-1577 (Norfolk Record Society 6:76). Children: 6:
      i. George, minor in 1539, living 1593, d. by 1595.
      ii. Simon, d. 1570 at Kettleston.
      iii. James, d. 1590, intestate, St. John Zachary, London.
      iv. Robert, living 1570, perhaps much later.
      v. William, fifth son, d. May 1595, in London.
      vi. Edmond or Edward, b. posthumously in 1539."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
      -NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
      -NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
      -NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
      -NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
      -TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
      -Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes.
      -Norfolk Rec. Soc., Vol. VI, p. 76.
      -Topography Hist. of co. Norfolk, Eng., vol. 9, p. 209 (1808).