Individual Notes

Note for: William PEACH, 20 SEP 1683 - 20 MAY 1735 Index

Christening:
     Date:   20 SEP 1683
     Place:   Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts

Event:
     Type:   Ancestral File Number
     Place:   8KHK-7J

Burial:
     Date:   MAY 1735

Individual Notes

Note for: William PEACH, 8 APR 1652 - 16 JUN 1715 Index

Event:
     Type:   Ancestral File Number
     Place:   FV5D-0D

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Note for: Emme Devereux, 1657 - 17 JUN 1737 Index

Event:
     Type:   Ancestral File Number
     Place:   FV53-2H

Burial:
     Date:   APR 1737

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Note for: Samual Wakeman, 25 SEP 1603 - 1641 Index

Individual Note:
Samuel WAKEMAN, Roxbury, came in the “Lion,” in Nov. 1631 ; freeman, Mass., Aug. 7, 1632 ; prob. removed to Cambridge; deputy, May, 1635 ; constable for Newtown, April, 1636 ; an original proprietor at Hartford, 1639, when his home-lot was on the south bank of the Little River ; chosen townsman, 1638; appointed with George Hubbard, Senr., and Ancient Stoughton, in 1636, “to consider the bounds and survey the breadth of Dorchester (Windsor) to, wards the Falls, and of Watertown (Wethersfield) towards the mouth of the River.” He was killed in 1641 by a shot from the Spanish fort at Providence in the Bahamas, where he had been sent “to buy cotton.” His widow, Elizabeth, m. (2) Nathaniel Willett, of Hartford, before Jan. 1643, and the estate of Wakeman wag settled on him Dec. 4, 1645, on condition that he pay Ł40 to the son when he reached the age of 21, and Ł20 to each of the den's at the age of 18. -Ch.: i. Ezbon, freeman at Stratford, 1669; m. Apr. 1, 1669, at Guilford, Hannah Jordan; removed to Fairfield before 1671, where he d. in 1683. ii. Elizabeth; m. Joseph Arnold, of Haddam. iii. Grace; m. John Kelly, of Hartford. iv. Joanna; m. Francis Hackleton, of Hartford. v. Hannah.

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Note for: Francis Wakeman, 6 OCT 1565 - 2 SEP 1626 Index

Individual Note:
Page: 7-8

ANCESTRY OF FRANCIS WAKEMAN.

The word "Wakeman" is defined in Worcester's dictionary as "the title of the chief magistrate of the town of Ripon, Yorkshire, England." It seems to have meant "wide-awake man." At one time it was pronounced as if to rhyme with Parkman, or rather with what the latter would be--Pa'kman--if the "r" was silent; but by about 1650 the pronunciation had changed to "Wackman." At Ripon the title descended from father to son and gave rise to the surname of Wakeman.
From 1473 to 1479 William Wakeman was priest of the chapel of St. Mary at Kidderminster, near the northern border of Worcestershire. At the same time John Wakeman lived at Drayton, a small hamlet some four miles distant, in the rural parish of Chaddesley Corbett. The family tradition, recorded by Burke, makes them brothers, sons of a William Wakeman. The same tradition states the name of John's wife as Alice Wormelay.
The earliest pedigree now extant is that of the Wakeman's of Beckford, in Gloucestershire. It is given in several ancient manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, and may be found in the "Gloucestershire Visitations" published by the Harleian Society. Under the Tudors and Stuarts it was customary for the heralds to make tours or "visitations" throughout the various counties of England, stopping at the houses of the gentry to bring their pedigree up to date and, when necessary, to arrange for reviving or granting coats of arms. Those who declined to pay their fees were regularly listed as not entitled to be classed as gentlemen, some of these lists being still preserved. In 1586 the heralds granted to Richard Wakeman of Beckford a coat of arms which, according to the "Blazonry of Episcopacy," had belonged to his uncle, John Wakeman, bishop of Gloucestershire, from 1541 to 1549. The names of their fathers and grandfathers preserved in the "Visitation" may be accepted as having been stated by them to the heralds, and probably also those of elder brothers, as follows:

John Wakeman of Drayton,
William Wakeman of Drayton,
William Wakeman of Drayton, and John Wakeman, bishop.
Roger Wakeman, and Richard Wakeman.
William Wakeman,
Edward Wakeman.

The houses of the brothers Roger and Richard were included at great length in the manuscripts, as the result of subsequent inquiries on the part of the heralds. They also noted that the bishop's mother was an heiress named Godespayne, and that his brother William's wife was of a family named Clarke, whose arms were sketched. The Wakeman arms as recognized in the "Visitation," for the families of both brothers, were borne by Roger's descendants at Tewkesbury and by Richard's at Beckford. They were engraved, for example, in 1634 on a tomb in Tewkesbury church.
Citation:

Page: 9

Robert. Fitz-Hamon--one of the Norman nobles--married a niece of William the Conqueror, and on the death of the latter, his son bestowed upon Fitz-Hamon the estates known as "the honor of Gloucester," included in which was Tewkesbury. Fitz-Hamon resolved to build a great "Abbey of Expiation," being pricked by a consciousness of wrongs done by him in his many wars The result of this resolve was the noble church.
Citation:

Page: 9-10

John Wakeman, younger son of the first William, was born before 1490, ... Tradition had it that his mother was an heiress, ... [He] Dying in 1549 ... The place of death is uncertain, but was believed by Wood (Athens; Oxonienses) to have been 'Forthampton, where he had a house and a private chapel' The house doubtless appertained to the bishopric, but if not, would have descended to his legal heir, Roger. ... his near relatives removed from Drayton to Gloucestershire; his nephew, Roger, to Forthampton, where he died not long after the bishop's death, and where there certainly were monastery lands; his nephew, Richard, to the lands of the priory of Beckford after its dissolution; his brother, Thomas, to Southwick, a locality near Tewkesbury, which had been the property of the abbey; and his brother, Richard, to the Mythe, an estate near Tewkesbury, of which the earlier ownership is not known. A little later the Mythe became the seat of Roger's descendants, probably by purchase from those of his uncle Richard.
Citation:

Page: 10-11

Of Roger we learn from the "Visitation" that he had an heir, William, and that he was himself an heir to the family lands at Drayton, though apparently residing elsewhere, as he is not described as "of Drayton." He must have been the Roger Wakeman who studied at All Souls' college, Oxford, about 1516. His will of 1552 describes his residence as at Forthampton, and disposes of an amount of property which shows him to have been better off than all others of his name at that time. It names a wife, Joan, William, the eldest son, and John and Thomas, younger sons, besides various daughters, one of them named Anne; and enjoins upon William to grant the Drayton lands to John on a forty years' lease at the nominal annual rental of three peppercorns, to begin after the death or marriage of the wife Joan. William of Tewkesbury in his turn died in 1587, leaving the Drayton lands to his heir Edward by special mention in his will. These wills and the "Gloucestershire Visitation" agree in all points.(Burke's account of the family arbitrarily assigns to this Roger the children named in the "Exeter Visitation," as having belonged to another
Roger "of Woodrowe," a place not far from Drayton. The Exeter branch secured the use of the bishop's arms by representing their ancestor Roger of Woodrowe to have been his brother, as of course he may have been for all that is known to the contrary.)
Citation:

Page: 11-12

John Wakeman of Drayton, second son named in the will of Roger, was living, obviously on his father's property, in Chaddesley, for years before his father's death, and had doubtless been left in charge of the old home when the rest of the bishop's family went to Gloucestershire. By his father's will he was to have the Drayton estate as his own property for forty years after the death or marriage of the widow, but meanwhile he would be under the necessity of paying regular rent to his eldest brother William. The situation was not satisfactory, and soon after 1557 he removed with his family from the parish. The names of his children identify him perfectly. He was a son of Roger and nephew of Richard (of Beckford), and had a sister Anne; and the parish record of Chaddesley states that on August 9, 1545, he married Joan(???), and that his children were baptized as follow
Roger, September 12, 1546; Anne, March 7, 1548-9; John, May 10, 1552 (buried May 20, 1554); John February 20, 1554-5; Richard, January 1, 1556-7 (buried February 15, 1556-7) No trace of any of the five survivors is found later in the well-kept parish register of Chaddesley, except that it bears evidence to the subsequent return of the younger John, no doubt after the beginning of the term of forty years during which John of Drayton was to possess the ancestral estate. The nature of the evidence relating to the return of the younger John cannot be indicated clearly without due mention of other Wakemans then in the parish. ... Chaddesley Corbett
Citation:

Page: 14-15

John of Drayton, the father, who left Chaddesley with his wife Joan and his children, Roger, Anne and John, in or soon after 1557? Search elsewhere fails to show the presence of such a family or any clue to it, except at Bewdley, in the parish of Ribbesford, seven miles from Chaddesley. Unfortunately the parish register of Ribbesford dates only from 1574, so that the death of the child Roger, the marriage of Anne, and the baptism of a son Francis, assuming them to have taken place at Bewdley, cannot be proved by any extant record. What we do find is a record of the burial, March 27, 1587, of "Joan, wife of John Wakeman, the tanner," neither of them being mentioned before or afterwards. And we know that there was not then within many miles of Drayton another place which John Wakeman could find so advantageous to a country gentleman's son seeking to better himself as this very town of Bewdley close by. ... there were twelve tanyards in Bewdley, and tanners have been among its greatest benefactors
Citation:

Page: 15-17

'John Wakeman, the tanner,' of 1587 was so-called as the master of a tanyard, as employees were then regarded as merely servants, their bare names being entered on the parish register without distinctive designation. It was no part of the function of a clergyman to collect statistics concerning the occupations of obscure individuals, but it was the regular custom of the rector of Ribbesford to note the callings of masters in the different trades when entering their names in his parish register. Ever since 1576, for example, there were baptisms of children of plain "John Wakeman," whom we may distinguish as John of Belbroughton, because his will indicates that parish as the probable place of his origin, and who was certainly no near relative of Francis Wakeman. The latter appears in 1590 or 1591, on the occasion of the baptism of his first child (he had been married at Eastham in 1589), as "Francis Wakeman, the tanner." In 1592 plain John of Belbroughton has a son baptized Francis, showing close relations, as distinguished from relationship, with Francis the master tanner. On April 23, 1593, Francis is no longer noted as "the tanner," on the occasion of the baptism of his second daughter, while on September 23, 1594, John Wakeman (presumably of Belbroughton), whose daughter Mary was then buried, was entered as "the tanner," a designation afterwards repeatedly given to John of Belbroughton. That is to say, Francis gave up his tanyard, and John of Belbroughton became master of it, or of another, about 1593. From the action of John of Belbroughton in 1592, in naming his son after Francis, the master tanner, a much younger man than himself, it seems strongly probable that he was Francis's employee before becoming his successor in the Wakeman tan-yard.(Of seven children of John of Belbroughton baptized at Bewdley, the first two, before 1587, and the next three after that date, were noted as children of plain "John Wakeman," while the last two were of "John Wakeman, the tanner." Lest any suppose that the rector applied his trade-titles haphazard, and that the Joan who died in 1587 was merely the first wife of John of Belbroughton, it may be added that if so, the first wife Joan named a daughter Elizabeth, and the second wife, Elizabeth, named her first daughter, Joan. The rector omitted a master's trade now and then, but such omissions were exceptional.) Francis's failure as a tanner may be excused by his youth and inexperience, but in view of his youth and inexperience, he could not, apparently, have stepped into control of such a business unless he was placed in it by, or succeeded to his own father. Francis appears next in Chaddesley, where his son John was buried in May, 1595. Why he should retire to Chaddesley, far from his wife's connections, unless because it was his own family's home, is inconceivable. His next son also was named John, and his persistence in naming his sons John accords well with the other facts which indicate that that was his father's name. In 1596 he reappears at Bewdley, on the occasion of another baptism, and at this time, and uniformly until his death in 1626, he is noted as "the cooper." In his will he left a legacy to his brother John, of whom no other trace appears on the records at Bewdley. One simple explanation fits all the known facts: Francis was son of John and Joan, of Drayton, and brother of the younger John, of Drayton; the elder John being son of Roger and brother of William, who were successively recognized as the heads of the Wakeman family.
Citation:

Page: 34-35

THE following data lately collected is inserted, as it contains some early English genealogy of our family as far back as the year 1070. To be strictly reliable, however, this data should be confirmed by wills or other record evidence: From Burke's "Landed Gentry" for 1852, vol. ii. pp. 1483-4. Family of Wakeman of The Craig (Monmouth):
JOHN le Wake, Wyke, or Wakeman, according to the pedigrees preserved in the family, was living at the time of the Norman Conquest, and married the heiress and daughter of Malcolm de Vuseburne or Visberye, a king's thane, and settled at Ripon, in Yorkshire, the chief magistrate of which town was called the Wakeman, but whether the family took its name from the office or the office from the individual, is uncertain. The great-grandson of the first John was WILLIAM Wakeman, who had lands in Oxfordshire, temp Richard I., and is mentioned in several records of that reign; he had issue a daughter, Celina, who gave lands in All Saints, Oxon, to the Priory of Stodley. Third in descent from THOMAS, a younger brother of this William, was SIR THOMAS WAKEMAN, who married Isabella, dau. of Sir George Hastings, and left issue, two sons, I, Robert, who married a dau. of James Allington, and left a son, I, Thomas, a monk, living in 1280, II, WILLIAM, who m. Alicia Tamworth, and had issue GEORGE, through whom the line is continued.
Seventh in descent from George Wakeman aforesaid, was WILLIAM Wakeman, who was settled in Worcestershire, and left issue two sons, John, of Drayton, in the parish of Chadsley Corbet, co. Worcester, with whom all the modern pedigrees in the College of Arms commence and of whom hereafter, and William, a priest, parson of Kidderminster in 1473 to 1479.
JOHN, of Drayton, m. Alice Wormslay, and was father of
WILLIAM, of Drayton, who m. a dau. of Godespayne, and had issue,
I, WILLIAM, his heir.
II, JOHN, last Abbot of Tewksbury, and first bishop of Gloucester, who had a grant of the present arms of the family. He d. in 1549, having made his will dated the same year.
III, THOMAS, of Southwick, in the parish of Tewksbury, who was mentioned in his brother's will.
Citation:

Page: 156

Francis Wakeman, of Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, was m. at Eastham, England (now in Tenbury), Oct. 6, to Anne Goode. He d. Sept. 2, 1626. She d. Jan. 29, 1621. They begat,
I. Mary, bap. 1591. She m. Jan. 14, 1622, John Wowen, and begat, Mary.
II. Sarah, bap. April 23, 1593. She m., April 30, 1621, Richard Hubbell, and begat, Richard.

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Note for: John HAMMOND, 1500 - BEF 5 JUN 1551 Index

Occupation:
Place: Clothier

Individual Notes

Note for: JOHN HAMONDE, - UNKNOWN Index

Occupation:
Place: Fuller/Cloth Manufacturer

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Note for: Unknown CLARK, - UNKNOWN Index

Individual Note:
Had Arms sketched.

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Note for: William Wakeman, - UNKNOWN Index

Individual Note:
From 1473 to 1479, William Wakeman was priest of the chapel of St. Mary at Kidderminster, near the northern border of Worcestershire. At the same time John Wakeman lived at Drayton, a small hamlet some four miles distant, in the rural parish of Chaddesley Corbett. The family tradition, recorded by Burke, makes them brothers, sons of a William Wakeman. The same tradition states the name of John's wife as Alice Wormelay.

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Note for: Captain John Wakeman, 1659 - 15 FEB 1708/09 Index

Individual Note:
Captain John (2), second son of Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Goodyear) Wakeman, was born in 1659, died February 15, 1709. He was a prominent man in the Connecticut colony, deputy to the general court from Fairfield, serving at twenty-three sessions, from 1690 to 1706; was commissioner 1695-96-97; justice of the peace for many years; lieutenant, May, 1697; captain 1704-05. He married, April 14, 1687, Martha, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hubbell. She died June 5, 1710. They had seven children.

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Note for: John Wakeman, - 1659 Index

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John Wakeman, eldest son of Richard, succeeded his father in 1597. He seems to have been a person of some influence, even though a Catholic, and he applied for and obtained from Queen Elizabeth a grant of the forfeited estate of Thomas Freeman, of Beckford, to whom he restored the estate, and died in 1659, leaving six sons and four daughters.

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Note for: John DENNIE, 7 OCT 1694 - UNKNOWN Index

Individual Note:
John Denny was the grandfather of William Hooper, a sighner of the Declaration of Independence.

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Note for: Henry SCOTT, 1 NOV 1560 - 24 DEC 1624 Index

Individual Note:
Ancestral File shows the father of this Henry Scott to be Edmund Scott and mother Joane. There
is much conjecture as to the parentage of this Henry, for example.
1. Henry is presumed to be the son of Reginald Scott and Mary Tuke
2. Henry is presumed to be the Son of Edmund and Joane
3. Henry is presumed to be the Son of William and Mary Howard
Basically the desire is to identify the Henry Scott which married Martha Whatlocke. This couple were married 25 Jul 1594 and had child Thomas Chr 26 Feb 1595. they are presumed to have lived
in Bradfield or Rattlesden, Suffolk England. This place is also connected with the Scotts of
Brabourne Kent and those of Scots Hall about which there is a published work in the Genealogical
Library. Estimating from the marriage date 1594 -21yrs = Henry born abt 1573, which more nearly
approaches the William and Mary generation, and has been used here in the pedigree.