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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...
Edward Feake, third eldest of the minor children in 1595, was actually the sixth child and fifth son of William Feake (no. 13) by wife Mary Wetherall and correctly appears in the sixth place in the 1623 pedigree. In 1595 he was not yet, apparently, of age to be apprenticed, as nothing is said about apprenticing him. He was living in 1619, and though no wife or children are specifically mentioned in his mother's will, he must already have been married and with issue by his first wife, Anna Shaw, daughter of Christopher Shaw of London. The Cambridge record of his son Christopher, dated in 1628, says Edward was of Godstone, Surrey, and this was probably the property left by his mother to his brother John. Five children by the first wife are listed in the 1623 pedigree. By Sept. 10, 1654, he had married a second wife named Elizabeth who was a widow when she married Edward and a grandmother when she made her will on that date. Whether by birth or by first marriage, she was related to a family named Woodstocke. Elizabeth Feake, wife of Edward Feake of Lingfield, co; Surrey, gent., made her will Sept. 10, 1654, probated Oct. 9, 1654 (PCC: 216 Alchin):
To Elizabeth Woodstocke "which now liveth with me" £50, and various household goods. To John Woodstocke £10, also darker fatted cow and a bed. To his two eldest children £5 each at aet. 21 and to his youngest child three sheep. To Nicholas Andrews £5 and a white cow and to his eldest child £5, also to his two youngest children 50/- each and to said three children a sheep each. To George Woodstocke £10, also three sheep and a white-backed cow and to his son Richard Woodstocke three sheep. To Anne Woodstocke £10, also heifer at Mathew Wicking's and three sheep. To Mary Woodstocke £20 and checkered heifer. To William Woodstocke £5, and to his child at aet. 21 £5.
To husband Edward Feake's two children, Richard and Sarah Feake, £5 each at aet. 21.
To Patient Hampton one pair of flaxen sheets and one sheep. To poor of the parish of Lingfield 40/-, i.e., the poor widows 12d each and remainder to the rest of poor at discretion of executrix and overseers.
To husband Edward Feake three sheep, the steer "that is in keeping at Mr. George Turner's," two pair of sheets, and bed and bedstead he lyeth on and all that belongs to it.
To friends Richard Bryan als Scraston and George Blundell 10/- each. To "my clerk, William Rosse, my son-in-law," after husband's' decease, and to his three children three ewes and lambs and 5/- each. To Thomas Holt 10/-. Residue to Elizabeth Woodstocke my kinswoman, she to be sole executrix, friends Richard Bryan als Scraston and George Blundell to be overseers Witnesses Edward Feake, George Blundell, George Woodstocke, Richard Plawe
The picture presented by this will is of a careful farm wife, hardly in the Feake tradition, and though she had belonged to the family, she is entirely omitted in the 1667 pedigree. Children: 7 (all by first wife):
i. Christopher, son and heir, aet. 11 in 1623.
ii. William, d.s.p. before 1623.
iii. Edward,. in 1623 pedigree; apprenticed as son of Edward Feake of Horne, co. Surrey, gent., to George Latham of London, goldsmith, beginning at Christmas 1631, term not stated; married Mary before 1650 and had daughter Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1650, baptized Oct. 23, 1650, St. Thomas the Apostle.
iv. Andrew, d.s.p. by 1623.
v. John, living 1623; m. Mary ___; d. testate ca. 1656; will dated March 18, 1652, probated April 20, 1656 (PCC: 139 Berkeley, not completely abstracted): mentions testator's father Mr. Edward Feake as living, brother Christopher and other brothers; testator's brothers; testator died in Ireland as servant to the Commonwealth.
vi. Richard, mentioned in stepmother's will as minor in 1654.
vii. Sarah, mentioned in stepmother's will as minor in 1654."
2. "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:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."
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.
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