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John Feake

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  • Name John Feake 
    Born Abt 1576  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died of Elstree, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4806  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father 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) 
    Mother Mary Wetherall,   b. Abt 1537, of St Mary Woolnoth, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Aug 1619, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 12 Nov 1564  Woolnoth, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Judith Turner,   b. Bef 1691, of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1611  of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2183  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...
      John Feake, second eldest of the minor children in 1595, was actually the fifth child and fourth son of William Feake (no. 13) by wife Mary Wetherall. In the 1623 pedigree he is called aurifaber but no apprentice papers have been found and in his father's will he is to be apprenticed to a merchant. However, the Cambridge papers of his son Samuel state that the father was John Feake of London, goldsmith, and of Elstree, co. Hertford, and those of his nephew Christopher, son of brother Edward (no. 35), show that Edward was of Godstone, Surrey, probably living on the property bequeathed by his mother to John. Elstree, also called Idlestrey, is in southern Hertfordshire on the borders of Middlesex and not far from Bushey where John's putative daughter Elizabeth resided at her death. It may be this John who is listed by Sir Ambrose Heal as a goldsmith in London 1640-41. The 1623 pedigree names his wife as Judith Tourner, a marriage which must have been contracted before 1619 when two of his children are named in his mother's will and others, perhaps, indicated. Children: 4 (or more):
      i. Samuel, b. before 1619.
      ii. Judith, b. before 1619; probably married George Andrewes and had daughters Judith and Elizabeth, minors in 1648, heiresses of their aunt Elizabeth.
      iii. Elizabeth, of Buchy [Bushey], co. Hertford, will dated Oct. 20, 1648, probated Nov. 3, 1648 (PCC: 170 Essex): Judith Andrewes, daughter of George Andrewes, to be heir and residuary legatee, also sole executrix, with Robert Ibbitt of Cambridge and George Andrewes as trustees and overseers during Judith's minority; to Sarah Ibbitt, daughter of Robert, 20s; if Judith Andrewes dies in her minority, then to her sister Elizabeth Andrewes; witnesses: Richard Ward, Thos. Coleman (by mark), Mary Seaton.
      iv. (poss.) Daughter, m. Robert Ibbitt of Cambridge and had Sarah, living 1648."

      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.