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- 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...
George Feake, eldest son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, is mentioned in his father's will in 1539 as a minor and was therefore born after 1518, probably many years after that. He is not mentioned in any other will or in any of the pedigrees. A George Feake of Wyghton in co. Norffolke, gent., had a daughter Amy who married George Reve of Mollenden, co. Suffolk, gent., at an unknown date. The only chronological data which permit even an approximation of the date are the facts that George Reve's grandfather Thomas Reve died in 1550 and the first husband of George Reve's mother had been a lance knight of the Emperor Charles V (see Harleian Society 13:275, 477). We think it possible but not quite certain that our George Feake was the man instituted as vicar of Wighton in 1575 by William Buckton on a grant from the dean and chapter of Norwich (Charles Parkin: "An essay towards a topographical history of the County of Norfolk" [London 1808] 9:209). Delafield cites a power of attorney dated Nov. 28, 1578, given by Edmund Framyngham to George Feake of Wyghton, minister of the church. George Feake, clerke, appears on the muster roll for Wighton, cited above. George ffeeke appears also in a list of the clergy of Norfolk in 35 Elizabeth [I] 1592/3, as rector of Warham Marie, Warham Magdalen, and vicar of Weighton (Norfolk Archaeology 18:99). Warham is a parish very near Wighton. If the clergyman was not the man under discussion, then we feel sure he was his son. As no mention is made of George in William's will in 1595, we presume he was dead by then. Child: 1 (or more):
i. Amy, m. George Reve of Mollenden Park, Suffolk, gent., and had four children:
a. William, m. before 1612, ___ Payne, of Suffolk.
b. George, m. Anne ___, between 1612 and 1634.
c. Rosse (a daughter).
d. Anne."
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).
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