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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 Ao 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, second son and third child of William Feake (no. 13) by wife Mary Wetherall, was born doubtless in London, ca. 1567. His age was given on July 1, 1601, as 34 (High Court of Adm. Examinations, no. 34, found by Colonel Banks and recorded by Mr. Torrey). Though of the children not minors in 1595 he is named first in the will of his father, James comes after William in the list of children who were to have the remainder of a certain property. The 1623 pedigree makes him third child and second son, but wrongly calls him a grocer instead of a goldsmith.
He married at St. Nicholas Acons Church, London, on Jan. 29, 1592/3, Judith Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas, citizen and draper of London, by his first wife Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher. On the Thomas family see the excellent article by Mr. Torrey in "The American Genealogist" 16:95-101; also Delafield, op cit., 2:545 note, which adds the interesting fact that Robert Thomas had arms granted to him thrice in the month of February 1606, on one occasion his residence being given as Spanby Hall, co. Lincoln. No success has attended efforts to find this Thomas family in Lincolnshire and there appear to be no Thomas wills from Spanby. The will of Robert Thomas, dated Feb. 14, 1609/10, names, among others, the four Feake grandchildren listed below and also states that as James Feake had threatened to go to court to get his wife's portion, his wife and children were to be disinherited if he did so. James Feake was executor of his mother's will in 1619 but was dead by May 20, 1625, when his widow Judith Feake was appointed administratrix of his father's will. She died in the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth but was buried in the Church of St. Edmund the King on Dec. 24, 1625. Children: 4:
i. James, b. Feb. 13, 1598/9, d. probably ca. 1625.
ii. Robert, d. Feb. 1, 1660/1, at Watertown, Mass.
iii. Alice, mentioned in wills of maternal grandfather Robert Thomas in 1610 and of paternal grandmother Mary Feake in 1619; m. Tobias Dixon of London, mercer, Feb. 15, 1619/20, license granted by the Bishop of London, Feb. 14, 1619/20, this record calling him haberdasher and her spinster daughter of James Feake, City of London, marriage to take place at Stepney, co. Middlesex. It was for Tobias Dixon that Tobias Feake was doubtless named. He had already given testimony at the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham in 1614. He removed from England to Germany after 1625 and took with him his wife's nephew Tobias Feake and probably also her niece Judith, Tobias' sister. Later, both children were sent to America to live with their uncle Robert Feake at Watertown. By 1634 Tobias Dixon was back in London when his wife took administration in her grandfather's estate, and he was still there in 1639 when he was named attorney to sell property (see no. 48). Whether the Dixons had issue, we do not know.
iv. Judith, mentioned as living in 1610 in her maternal grandfather's will but not mentioned in her paternal grandmother's will in 1619, so we conclude she had died. She does not appear at all in the 1623 pedigree. She has been wrongly identified as the wife of Lieutenant William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, but she was much too old to have given birth to all her children after 1650. Since her parents were married in 1593, and their elder son not born until 1599, it is well within the range of possibility that both Judith and her sister Alice were born before their brothers."
2. Source cited below indicates profession of goldsmith and affiliation with the Church of England.
3. This individual mentioned in the following article about Robert Feake per "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"Robert Feake
Occupation: Goldsmith. He served an apprenticeship with his father, James Feake, for eight years beginning 21 September 1615, but probably never practiced his craft in the New World [NYGBR 86:212]...
Birth: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR 86:144-45]..."
4. The following individual, Henry Feake, was also a pre-1633 New England immigrant and apparently a second cousin to the children of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake as noted in the following from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"Henry Feake
Origin: London
Migration: 1633
First Residence: Lynn
Removes: Sandwich 1639, Newtown (Long Island) by 1656
Occupation: Goldsmith (in London).
Church Membership: Admission to Lynn church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. Requested admission as Plymouth freeman, 4 June 1639 [PCR 1:126]; although there is no subsequent record of the admission of Henry Feake, a "Mr. John Feake, of Sandwich," was made free on 7 June 1642 [PCR 2:40]. There was no adult John Feake at Sandwich at this time, and so this record must be for Henry Feake, which explains his addition to the Sandwich section of the Plymouth list of freemen which had been initially compiled in 1639 [PCR 8:176]. Offices: Essex jury, 26 June 1638 [EQC 1:8]. Plymouth grand jury, 7 June 1642 [PCR 2:41]. Deputy for Sandwich to Plymouth General Court, 6 June 1643, 29 August 1643 [PCR 2:57, 60]. In Sandwich portion of 1643 Plymouth list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:192]. Estate: On 16 April 1640 Henry Feake was appointed to a committee to resolve a dispute over Sandwich meadow lands, and in the resulting resolution he was awarded twenty acres of meadow, with another acre given to "Mr. Feak's house" [PCR 1:147, 149, 150]. On 20 May 1640 "Henry Feake of Sandwich, gent.," granted to "my loving brother George Feake of Wightin," Norfolk, gent., "my new house" with "all the upland and meadow ground which appertains and belongs unto me excepting two acres of upland [and] one acre of meadow" [PCLR 3:123]. On 2 April 1658 "judgment in the case of the heirs of Johanna Wheeler vs. the heirs of Henry Feaks, husband of said Wheeler; annuls the will of Feaks, and directs that the property of both the deceased persons be inventoried and appraised, and after paying their debts, be equally divided among their surviving Children" [Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, Part I, Dutch Manuscripts 1630-1664, ed. Edmund B. O'Callaghan (1865), p. 194, citing 8:801 of the Dutch Manuscripts]. This document was partially burned in the 1911 fire in Albany, but reveals that Feake had three children by a previous marriage and Wheeler had two children by a previous husband. The annulled will of Feake was apparently dated 24 September 1657 [NYGBR 86:209]. On 1 March 1670/1 "John Feake of Wighton, Norfolk, gent., son and heir of George Feake, late of Wighton aforesaid, gent., deceased" sold to Robert Harper of Sandwich "all those the houses, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, uplands, hereditaments of him the said John Feake and late of George Feake his said father deceased, which did sometimes belong and appertain to one Henry Feake, brother of the said George Feake" [PCLR 3:269]. Birth: About 1590 (based on date of marriage and date of father's marriage), son of John and Cicely (Reeve) Feake [NYGBR 86:209]. Death: After 24 September 1657 (date of will) and before 2 April 1658 (date of judgment). Marriage: (1) St. Saviour's, Southwark, Surrey, 22 January 1615/6 (lic.) Jane Woolstone [NYGBR 86:209]; d. after 1633. (2) by 1657 Joanna (____) Wheeler, widow of ____ Wheeler. Children (London church records from NYGBR 86:209-10):
i Crisome Child, bur. St. Mary Woolnoth, London, 15 June 1617.
ii Jane, bp. St. Mary Woolnoth, London, 2 June 1618; d. young.
iii Edward, bp. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, 2 November 1619; bur. there 1 May 1620.
iv Jane, bp. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, 4 May 1621; no further record.
v Judith, bp. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, 10 July 1622; bur. there 17 March 1623.
vi Mary, bp. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, 27 August 1623; no further record.
vii Stillborn Child, bur. St. Peter's Cornhill, London, 10 October 1630.
viii John, bp. St. Peter's Cornhill, London, 20 November 1631; McCracken notes that when Henry Feake went to New England, this son remained in England and attended the Merchant Taylors' School [NYGBR 86:209-10], and also says he came later, citing PCLR 3:269, a deed which was made not by this John but by his cousin of the same name of Wighton, Norfolk, England (see above under Estate).
ix Elizabeth, bp. St. Peter's Cornhill, London, 30 June 1633; m. Sandwich 24 March 1650/1 John Dillingham [PCR 8:11].
Associations: Henry Feake was second cousin of Robert Feake of Watertown [NYGBR 86:132-48], and of Robert's brother James, whose children Judith and Tobias also came to New England at a later date [NYGBR 86:210-12]. Comments: The Feake family, both in England and in the colonies, was treated in great detail by George E. McCracken in 1955 [NYGBR 86:132-48, 209-21, 87:28-30, 104-10, with Henry Feake at 86:209-10]. The gap in the records for Henry Feake from 1623 to 1630 should be a subject for future research; he may have been in a London parish whose records are lost. Since he had a child baptized in London in June 1633, but was made a freeman in New England in May 1634, he must have arrived to New England in the fall of 1633, perhaps in the Griffin, which left England in July of that year. As noted above, Henry Feake was survived by three children, one of whom would be daughter Elizabeth who married John Dillingham. Unless there were children born but unrecorded after the family arrived in New England in 1633, the second and third must be found among son John and the two daughters, Jane and Mary, baptized in London but not further of record. On 3 April 1637 Henry Feake was one of the "ten men of Saugus" who were granted the tract of land which became Sandwich [PCR 1:57], but he does not seem to have moved from Lynn until 1639, for he is on an Essex county jury in 1638, and he does not appear again in Plymouth Colony records until his request for freemanship. On 25 September 1639 "Mr. Henry Feake, of Sandwich," assigned to John Barnes of Plymouth the remainder of the term of his servant Edmond Edwards [PCR 1:132]."
5. "The American Genealogist," 1940:95-101: The Thomas Family of London, England (Maternal Ancestry of Lieutenant Robert Feake)," by Clarence Almon Torrey, of Dorchester, Mass.:
"It has long been known that the mother of Lieut. Robert Feake, who came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, was Judith Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas, draper, of London, England. A search of English records made in the interest of the writer resulted in securing additional information about the Thomas family. It was learned that Robert Thomas, draper, was a man of very great wealth for the time in which he lived and that his first wife, Judith's mother, was Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher. The marriage date of James Feake and Judith Thomas is given, and the names of the members of the Thomas family closely related to Robert Thomas are mentioned.
The records here given include the following items:
1. The Thomas pedigree at the College of Heraldry, London.
2. Abstracts of London parish records.
3. Allegations for Marriage License of Robert Thomas and Margaret Thomas.
4. Abstracts of Thomas wills and administrations.
5. Abstract of the Inquisition Post Mortem of Robert Thomas.
6. Data from the Roll of the Drapers' Company of London. (From the records of the Drapers' Company it was learned that Robert Thomas secured his freedom Apr. 12, 1568, from which it appears that he was born about 1547.)
The Thomas Pedigree at the College of Heraldry, London. The information supplied in pedigree chart form is here condensed as follows:
Robert Thomas, citizen and Draper of London. Died 8 June 1610, buried 26 same month. Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher, 1st wife. Ellen Muffett, 2nd wife. Children by first wife:
William Thomas, married Martha, daughter of William Benett of London.
Humphrey Thomas, second son, married Jane, daughter of ___ Cotton. Child: Robert Thomas.
John Thomas.
Judith, married to ffeake of London, goldsmith; had issue.
Sara, married to George Southcott, Kt. of Dartmouth, Co. Devon. Child: Thomas Southcott.
Extracts from London Pariah Records
1. The Registers of St. Nicholas Acons
Baptisms - Page
1575 Suzan Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, Dec. 18. 7
1578 Margaret Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, July 13. 8
1580 An Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, Sep. 11. 8
1582 Bartholmew Thomas the sonne of John Thomas, Sep. 2. 9
1607 Thomas Southcott the soonne of George Southcott knight, Feb. 14, [1607/8]. 15
1610 Sara Southcott daughter of George Southcott, Knight, Oct. 7. 15
Marriages
1574 John Thomas and Jocamine Broghe, Jan. 23, [1574/5]. 62
1592 James ffeeke and Judith Thomas, Jan. 29, [1592/3]. 63
Burials
1582 Margaret Thomas, daughtr of John Thomas, Hosyer, Dec. 14. 92
1582 Suzan daughtr of the sayd Jo. Thomas, Dec. 16. 92
1582 Agnes, his [i.e. John Thomas'] daughtr, Jan. 3, [1582/3]. 92
1588 Juththe, wiefe of Mr Thomas, Drap. Meh. 6, [1588/9]. 94
1602 Edward Thomas, the sonne of Robert Thomas, Draper, Dec. 27. 98
1610 Mr Robert Thomas, wth Herrauld C &c. p. [pest], June 26. 100
1613 John Thomas, Draper, Sep. 12. 101
1615 Humfrey Thomas, draper, Feb. 12, [1615/16]. 101
1639 William Thomas Essquire, in the Valt on the sough side, Aug. 28. 109
2. The Registers of St. Pancras, Soper Lane
Marriage
1589 Robert Thomas of St Nicholas Aeon & Ellen Lynaker of this par. Jan. 26, [1589/90]. (Harleian Society Publications, vol. 45) 444.
Burial
1588 William Lynakers, Nov. 20. (Harleian Society Publications, vol. 44) 290
Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London.
1613 May 29, Robert Thomas, of St Botolph, Aldgate, London, Draper, & Margaret Thomas, of St Alban's, Wood Street, London, Spr, dau. of Simon Thomas, decd., at All Hallows Stayning, London. (Harleian Society Publications, Vol. 26, page 21.)
Abstract of the Will of Robert Thomas, St. Katherines. Dated 16 July 1557. Proved 15th June 1566. P.C.C. Crymes 17.
Robert Thomas of the precinct of St. Katherines by the Tower of London, gunner.
To my son Robert Thomas my house that one Robert Bowle, mariner now lives in.
To my daughter Katherine Thomas my house that Mrs. Ellethe now lives in.
To my daughter Alice Thomas my house or tenements that I now live in, after the decease [of] my wife Elizabeth.
The rest of all my goods etc. to my said wife Elizabeth Thomas.
Elizabeth my wife sole executrix, and I will that she bring up our said children in goodness and virtue.
John Bassett my uncle, of the said precinct, gunner, overseer.
Witnesses: John Bassett aforesaid, Stephane Bull of the said precinct,
also gunner.
Probate 15th June 1566 to William Thomas, brother of the defunct.
Abstract of the Will of William Thomas of the Parish of St. Catherine's near the Tower. Dated 27 Oct. 1609. Proved 15 January 1609-10. P.C.C. Wingfield 8.
William Thomas of the precinct of St. Catherine's nigh the Tower of London, servant to the King's Majesty...
To be buried in the green churchyard in St. Catherine's as near as may be to the place where my former wife and children were laid
My loving wife Sara Thomas shall have and enjoy the house in which I now dwell in St. Catherine's also the three tenements which are now in the occupations of Allen Montgomery Thomas Lee and his tenant and the lease that I hold of the same premisses in the name of one house made from one Mr Mabee to me ... Further I give to said Sara all my goods and chattels, etc.
Concerning the lease which I hold on divers tenements in Bush Alley in St. Catherine's made to one Arnold Newmar and passed to me by conveyance, I give and bequeath that lease to my loving cousin William Thomas of East Smithfield, co. Middlesex, compassmaker, and Susan wife except one room now in occupation of the aforesaid Thomas Lee. This room to remain to Sara my wife during the time, etc.
And for one obligation which I have to me made from my cousin Robert Thomas of London, draper, and William Thomas his son for them to pay to my Executors or Assigns £300 within 6 months after my decease. This sum to be distributed as follows: To the four children of said William Thomas of East Smithfield £10 each.
To my cousin Thomas Hudson £10, and to his daughter £5.
To my cousin Agnes the wife of William Thistleton £20.
To her two sons £5 each.
To my cousin Margaret the wife of William Upner £20.
To her two daughters £5 each on their marriage day or at 21 years of age.
To my cousin Richard Hudson in Lincolnshire 5£, as well as the £10 which I lent him.
To Robert Collingworth in Lincolnshire £10, and to my cousin Honor Collingworth and her sister Elizabeth £5 each. And to the children of Richard Hudson, Robert Collingworth, and Elizabethe sister of Honor, I give £30 to be divided equally among them, on their attaining the age of 21 or on their marriages.
To the two daughters of Francis Gidfield, namely Ellen and Agnes £20 each at the age of 21 or on their marriages.
To John Ovendall £5.
To the poor of the "french Church" in London £5.
40 shillings to the poor of St. Catherine's.
To Mary Fuller 20 shillings and to Mr Randall Parker preacher in St. Catherine's 40 shillings.
Executors: Wife Sara; my cousin James Fexe of London, goldsmith: said William Thomas, cousin in East Smithfield: and Edmund Ansell my kinsman.
To James Fexe and Edmund Ansell each a silver cup of 8 ounces.
Overseers: Cousin Robert Thomas, of London, draper; cousin John Thomas of St. Catherine's.
To John Thomas my furred gown.
Witnesses: Thomas Abbot, sci: John Greene: Thomas Lee.
Probate granted to Executors.
Abstract of the Will of Robert Thomas, St. Nicholas Acons. Dated 14 Feb. 1609-10. Proved 18 Oct. 1610. P.C.C. 88 Wingfield.
Robert Thomas, citizen and draper of London, of the parish of St. Nicholas Acon, London.
My body to the earth.
I stand bound to one William Muffett, late of Chippinge Barnett, Co. Hertford, gent. deceased and to his Exors and Administrators to leave to my present wife Ellen Thomas the sum of £2000 at the time of my death. To Ellen Thomas ... and all such plate as she brought with her now being in my house, so the property is not altered. To her my house in which I live. She shall care for my children.
I have given to my eldest son William Thomas £500 to set up his trade and £300, which I bestowed on copyhold lands for him, which I bought of my uncle William Thomas, late of St. Katherines. And also in consideration of a marriage with Mrs. Benette's daughter have assured him and his heirs males my lands called Spenbye in Lincoln, being to the value of £3000. Yet nevertheless I bequeath to Sir George Southcott, Knight and Humfrey Thomas my exors. £800 to allow him a yearly portion of £60 only for his maintenance. An Indenture tripartite made between his father-in-law Mr. Benet, himself and myself touching the settling of my land Spendye [sic].
Upon my son Humfrey's marriage I assured and made over to him the house he now lives in and £500 stock, which house and stock cost me £1000 and did also enter into bond with one Mr. Sillyard to leave my son £1000 more.
Also to his (Humfrey's) son Robert £100. And also further to him all my lands in Essex called Dagman with 12 acres of Marsh by the Thames side, which one John Hardwood now holds. To my son John Thomas £1500 provided he makes a general release of all actions and demands, the said legacies excepted. My shop in Candleweekestreete and all the rest of those houses that are upon the same lease to son John.
Lands in Hartfordshire with my copyhold there called Beech Hide to my son Humfrey Thomas and to his heirs.
To my brother Symon Thomas, his two daughters £70 apiece to be paid to them the day of their marriages.
To my daughter Judith Feake £1000 in full satisfaction of her marriage money and Child's part. To her four children James, Robert, Alice and Judith £100 apiece.
James Feake; my son-in-law 'hathe given out threatening wordes that he would go to law with me for his portion.' If the said James refuses to release my exors. from all Actions and demands, within a quarter of a year after my decease, then this my said, legacy to his wife with the legacies to his children are cancelled, and I leave him to be relieved by the law.
To my daughter the Lady Sara Southcott and to her husband £1000. To her son Thomas Southcott £100 to be bestowed in land to the use of him and his mother. To Sara Thomas, my brother William's daughter £10 at the day of her marriage.
To my maid servant Mary Handlye £10.
To the relief of the poor children in Christ's Hospital in London £10.
To the Company of Drapers whereof I am free £20 for a dinner to the Livery of the same Company, who go to my funeral.
Executors: Sir George Southcott, Knight, Humfrey Thomas.
Overseers: My brother William Thomas, and I give to him a black gown, and to his wife a black gown, my son-in-law James Feake, and Clement Bucke, and to each of them and their wives black gowns.
Witnesses: Humfrey Clarke, Hugh Farye.
Memorandum. Alterations were made 6. June 1610 in the presence of Humfrey Were; Clement Burke, John Curwen, and Thomas Astley.
Probate: 12th Oct. 1610 to George Southcott, Knight and Humfrey Thomas, Executors.
Abstract of the Will of John Thomas, of St. Nicholas, London. Dated 8th Sept. 1613. Proved 15th Sept. 1613. P.C.C. 79 Capell.
John Thomas, citizen and draper of London.
To be buried in the parish church of St. Nicholas, near Lumberdstreate in London as near the place where my late father and mother are buried as possible.
At my funeral there is to be a sermon preached by Mr. Daye, sometimes preacher in St. Magnus Church near Newefishstreet, London, to whom I give 40 s.
There is owing to me the sum of £500 by Sir George Southcote, knight, of the legacy of my late father Robert Thomas, deceased.
From the £500: to Sir George £5, to his wife Dame Sara Southcott £5, to their son Robert Southcott £50, to my sister Mrs. Feake, wife of James Feake and his children £150 equally amongst them, to my brother William Thomas £30, to my cousin Robert Thomas, son of my brother Humfrey Thomas
£50, to Sara Hill, wife of Richard Hill, draper, £100.
To my brother Humfrey Thomas £5. To my uncle William Thomas and his wife 40 s. apiece for rings.
To Thomas Agar Clothworker £5. To Thomas Astley 40 s. To John Maxwell 40 s. To Richard Westrawe 40 s.
To my loving brother in law James Feake Goldsmith [? - -]
To my friend William Sales, merchant tailor a ring with a ruby.
Executor: James Feake.
Overseers: My brother Humfrey Thomas, my uncle William Thomas
Witnesses: Edward Charnock, writer, [?] Watson and Thomas Wannerton, servant to the writer.
Probate: 15th Sept. 1613, to James Feake, Exor.
Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1559-1571 - Page:
1560 3 Dec. John Thomas, citizen and draper of London, to sister Eliz. Wave, als. T. 14
1562 19 Sep. Anne Thomas, ala. Plomnier, Oxford (Oxon.), wid., to son James T., ala. P. 31
1562 ult. Oct. Amy Thomas, ala. Plommer, Oxford (Oxon.), wid., to daur. Elizabeth Wave, als. Thomas, ass. Plommer. 32
1565 23 Nov. Robert Thomas, city of London, ''goonu" ?gunner, to relict Elizabeth T. 64
Abstract of the Inquisition Post Mortem of Robert Thomas, Gent.
Writ. 14 Aug. 10 Jas. 1 (1613).
Inquisition, Brentwood, Essex, 28 June. 11 Jas. 1 (1613).
Dagenham. A messuage called "Pettitts," near Edristreet; tenure unknown; worth 40/- p.a. 10a. land in le West marshe, called "Oxlease als. Oxenlease"; held of the King in chief by knight service, by what part of a knight's fee is unknown; worth 40/- p.a. By his will, dated 14 Feb. 7 Jas. 1 (1609/10), [extract given], he left £1000 to his son Humfrey; £100, and his lands called "Dagman," with 12 a. marsh by the Thames, to his grandson Robarte, son of Humfrey. He died in the parish of St. Nicholas Acon, London, 26 May 8 Jas. 1 (1610). Heir his son William Thomas, aged 36 and upwards at the taking of the inquisition. Chancery Inq. p.m. Series 2, Vol. 545, no. 87.
Court of Wards Inq. p.m. Vol. 89, no. 333.
Drapers' Apprentices Before 1610 of the Name of Thomas. [Abbreviation. A after a date indicates that that is the year when the apprentice was bound.]
Thomas,
William, 1488 A. to George Bnlstrode.
Sampson, 1510 A. to Richard Forth, made free 1514.
David, 1532 made free by Sir William Balye.
William, 1533 free by William Wyf old.
William,
1546 A. to Walt Williams, free 1553 Oct. 11.
1571 frees his apprentice Lodowiek Croft.
1573 frees his apprentice William Thomas.
John, 1547 A. to Richard Champion, free 1554.
second master George Palmer.
1560 Dec. 3. Admon P. C. C. to sister Elizabeth Wase als. Thomas.
John, 1551, A. to Robert Taylor.
John, 1553, A. to Thomas Caltou, free 1561.
Henry, 1559, A. to Richard Bynd, free 1567, March 23 other masters Richard Lamb, Richard Carter.
Robert, 1559 A. to William Carow, free 1568 April 12
1583 frees his aliprentice Jervise Eyre
1593, 1599, 1601, warden; 1606 master
1590 frees his apptentice Edward Handen
1610 P.C.C. 88 Wingfleld, many relations.
1598 loan to Queen £20.
1610 June 26 bur. with Heralds St. Nicholas Acons
From the English records in this paper we have learned that Robert Thomas, wealthy draper of London, had brothers William and Simon Thomas, and uncles William Thomas and Robert Thomas of St. Katherine by the Tower, London. Although we have the names of two uncles of Robert Thomas, draper, we lack the names of his parents.
His niece, Margaret Thomas, daughter of his brother Simon Thomas, married in 1613, by licence, Robert Thomas of St. Botolph, Aldgate. The groom and bride were probably relatives but the relationship has not been learned. The John Thomas mentioned in the register of St. Nicholas Acons was probably a relative of Robert Thomas, draper.
The baptisms of Robert's children have not been found in any of the printed records of London churches. The records of some of the churches, including those of St. Botolph, Aldgate, have not been published.
The will of his uncle William Thomas mentions a cousin [?nephew] William Thomas of East Smithfield, co. Middlesex, and relatives in Lincolnshire. Perhaps Robert's father and uncles were born in Lincolnshire.
If the earlier history of this branch of the Thomas family is secured, the information will be offered to "The American Genealogist" for publication."
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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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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1567 - Bef 1625 (< 58 years)