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Audrey Compton

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  • Name Audrey Compton 
    Born 1600  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4780  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family James Feake,   b. 13/13 Feb 1598/9, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 1624 to 5 Dec 1639, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years) 
    Married 14 Jun 1620  Saint Mary Mounthaw, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Judith Feake,   b. Abt 1621, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1670, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years)
     2. Tobias Feake,   c. 15 Aug 1624, London Whitechapel St Mary, Stepney, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 1669 to 1672, Wapping, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 44 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2166  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:
      "48. James Feake, elder son of James Feake (no. 32) by wife Judith Thomas, was doubtless born in London, and the date is recorded as Feb. 13, 1598/9 in the record at the Merchant Taylors' School where James was a student in 1609/10. He is named first among the four children of his parents in the will of his maternal grandfather Robert Thomas in 1610. He married at the Church of St. Mary Mounthawe, London, on June 14, 1620, Awdrey Crompton, of whose origin nothing is known. The printed parish registers of London have been searched for other references to her in vain, but she was probably sister to a William Crompton who married at the same church about the same time. The baptism of Tobias Feake, son of James and Awdrey, is recorded at St. Mary Whitechapel, London, in August 1624, but the baptismal record of the daughter Judith has not been found. The registers of many London churches were burned in the great London fire, including that of the Church of St. Edmund the King in which we should expect to find many Feake entries. If there were other children, no trace of them has come to light. This James Feake was certainly dead by Dec. 5, 1639, and he probably died many years before that. No mention of him as living has been found after 1624. He is not named in the papers pertaining to the administration of his grandfather's estate in 1625, 1626, and 1634, though in the latter year his younger brother Robert did renounce his right to serve. Like his father and grandfather he was a goldsmith, but his apprentice papers have not been found, and he is not listed by Sir Ambrose Heal. No probate has been discovered.
      That the James Feake under discussion was not the James Feake (no. 63) who was son of Robert Feake (no. 39) is made clear by the fact that, if so, the children of our James would not have inherited, as they did, property belonging formerly to James Feake (no. 32) and before that to William Feake (no. 13). That the husband of Awdrey Crompton was not James Feake (no. 32) is surely indicated by the fact that, though the latter had married Judith Thomas as early as 1593, his widow Judith Feake was still living in 1625, five years after the marriage of James Feake to Awdrey Crompton.
      In 1639, however, the property which had been held in Lombard Street, London, for three generations, was to be sold to settle the estate, and since James' two children were then living in America, it was necessary that a power of attorney be obtained from them in order to sell. Thomas Lechford, the famous Boston notary, duly recorded on 228 of the printed version in "Collections of the American Antiquarian Society," v. 7, also printed separately) the following: "Lieuten't Robert Feke of Waterton in New England, gent., and Sergeant William Palmer of Yarmouth in New England & Judith his wife, and Tobyas Feake aged 17 sonne & Daughter of James Feke, late of London, goldsmith, deceased, makes [sic] a le[tte]r of Attorney to Tobyas Dixon, citizen and mercer of London, to sell one tenement or house & Shopp in Lumbard Street, London, held of the Company of Goldsmiths in London, whereof he dyed poss[ess]ed, late in the occupaçon of one Brampton."
      Though Tobias Feake of this power of attorney is called aged seventeen but had been baptized only fifteen years previously, the discrepancy is not serious. It is clear from Lechford's careful language that Judith Palmer and Tobias Feake were children of a goldsmith named James Feake, and also that Robert Feake of Watertown was not their brother, though obviously a relative, or he would not have been included in the power of attorney. He was, of course, their uncle, and he appears in this precious document because he was acting as guardian to his nephew, informally if not also officially.
      It has many times been claimed that Robert Feake was indeed the brother of Tobias and Judith, an error arising from the fact that Robert had a known sister Judith, and the fact that the father of each of the three persons was named James Feake. While many circumstantial considerations point clearly to the uncle-nephew relationship, there is also on record specific testimony by Tobias Feake that Robert was his uncle (see below). Children: 2:
      87. i. Judith,1 b. in London, probably in 1621, omitted from all the pedigrees. She probably accompanied the Dixons to Germany and may also have crossed the Atlantic with her brother Tobias. She married, first, most probably at Watertown, Mass., and before Dec. 5, 1639, Sergeant (afterwards Lieutenant) William Palmer; of Plymouth, Yarmouth, and Newtown, Long Island, who died in the last-named place ca. 1661. His parents are as yet unknown; though he was at Plymouth in 1638 about to move to Yarmouth at its founding, he was not the William1 Palmer of Duxbury, nailer, or either of the nailer's two sons, both named William. There is some reason to think that William may have come from either Swaffham or Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. William and Judith Palmer were the parents of four sons and one daughter: William, Ephraim, James, Joseph, and Judith, whose births are not recorded but whose names are certain. Judith Feake married, second, in 1662 or thereafter, as third and last wife, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., who died May 31, 1666, and, third, before May 6, 1667, John Bowers who married again, following Judith's death, the widow Hannah (Close) Knapp, and made his own will on March 16, 1693/4. Judith's death occurred, according to Spencer B. Mead, in 1667, but he cites no evidence and the year seems early. Connecticut Vital Records do not supply any of the missing dates. Several sketches of William Palmer are in print of which the only trustworthy one is by Donald Lines Jacobus and appears in Lillian L. M. Selleck's "One Branch of the Miner Family" (New Haven, 1928) pp.142 f. See also Spencer B. Mead, "History of the Town of Greenwich," (New York, 1911), pp. 618-20, where... true Henry's family gets mixed up with William's. This error was copied by Marion H. Reynolds and Anna C. Rippier, "History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds, etc." (Brooklyn, 1924) p.31 note, and by Josephine C. Frost, "Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler" (1939) pp. 60 f., but corrected by Mrs. Frost in "The Record,"71:362. The late Dr. Byron S. Palmer's sketch No. 2150, Part II, in the Boston Transcript for Aug. 26, 1925, avoids the main errors but wrongly gives William and Judith Palmer a son John who died at Greenwich before Oct. 26, 1672, estate settled at Greenwich April 24, 1724, these papers supplying the names of William Palmer's children. We think this John may have been the John Palmer who m. at Swaffham, Norfolk, on Oct. 13, 1631, a wife named Margaret Pratt, and he was probably brother of that Henry Palmer who married in the same parish on Nov. 3, 1635, Katherine Springell. Henry Palmer of Wethersfield, Conn., is known to have had a wife named Katherine, and, among others, a son named Ephraim, born at Wethersfield ca. April 25, 1648. As William Palmer also had a son Ephraim, we are inclined to think that he, Henry Palmer of Swaffham and Wethersfield, and John Palmer of Swaffham and Greenwich, were brothers. No William Palmer appears in the marriage registers of Swaffham, but as we suppose our William married Judith Feake at Watertown, this absence is a help, rather than a hindrance, to our theory. The baptismal and burial registers of Swaffham should be examined.
      88. ii. Tobias1, bap. Aug. 1624, St Mary Whitechapel, London; to Watertown, Greenwich, and Flushing; d. in Wapping, co. Middlesex, England, between 1669 and 1672."

      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:
      -Feake Fam. of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America, by Geo. McCraken (Jul 1955).
      -7 Gen. of Judiths, by Art Gibson (1986).
      -Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting.
      -Amer. Ancestry (1963 and 1986)