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Edmond or Edward Feake

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  • Name Edmond or Edward Feake 
    Born Abt 1539  Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Foulsham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4825  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father James Feake,   b. Aft 1505, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 23 Jan 1538/1539 to 18 Jul 1539, Wighton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 32 years) 
    Mother 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 
    Family ID F2175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Audley,   b. Abt 1541, , Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Aft 1560  , Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2191  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...
      Edmond or Edward Feake, youngest son of James Feake of Wighton, (no. 7) by wife Agnes, was born posthumously in 1539, and is not mentioned in his father's will or in any of the pedigrees. He is called Edmond in his brother William's will – the two independent abstracts of this will are agreed as to this reading – but he is called Edward Feake of Foulsom in the County of Norfolk, tanner, in the apprentice papers of his son Robert. Foulsham is in Eynesford Hundred, about twelve miles southeast of Wighton, very close to Kettleston where Edmond's brother Simon, also a tanner, had lived when he died in 1570. We should have thought it probable that the name Edward in the apprentice papers was wrongly read, were it not for the fact that William Feake named a son of his Edward. In any case, despite the discrepancy in the first name, we feel sure that the tanner of Foulsham was brother of the goldsmith of London, William Feake. We know nothing more of him than that, since his youngest child was named Audlea, his wife may have been a member of the Audley family. Children: 6 (order uncertain):
      i. Anne, mentioned as living in her uncle William's house in 1595; mentioned in her brother Robert's will in 1612 as Ann Bullock; probably the cousin Bullock omitted from Mary Feake's will in 1619.
      ii. Robert, d. 1612 in London.
      iii. William. mentioned in brother Robert's will in 1612.
      iv. Elizabeth, mentioned as Elizabeth Gregorye in brother Robert's will in 1612; m. Barnabas Gregory, Feb. 8, 1601/2, St. Mary Woolnoth, both of that parish, and had by 1619 children Barnabye and Amy, omitted from Mary Feake's will.
      v. Susan, unm. in 1612 when mentioned in brother Robert's will.
      vi. Audlea, unm. in 1612 when mentioned in brother Robert's will."

      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).