'Pyke1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Pyke of Brockley, Pyke of Morelinch, Pyke of Sheene
[This page was originally launched on 19.08.20 as a Draft page. It was promoted into the main database after review led to acceptance that there was little chance of our making a significant improvement to it in the near future and that it was 'good enough' to be promoted into the main database.]
| Visitation shows the arms of the following family as "Per pale Az. and Sa., over all three crescents Or." | |||||||||||||||
| Sir Richard Pyke (a 1384) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Hugh Pyke (a 1424) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Thomas Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| a. | John Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Pyke of Morelinche, Somerset | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Bowring (dau of Thomas Bowring of Bowring's Leigh) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Robert Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Thornhill (of the family of Thornhull of Thornhull in Stalbridge) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Pyke of Morelinche | ||||||||||||||
| m. ?? Stowell (dau of Sir John Stowell (Stawell) of Cothelstone) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Elizabeth Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Aleighe of Cornwall | |||||||||||||||
| ((1))+ | issue - Thomas, William, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Stephen Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dor(othy?) Cults | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Pyke of Bridgwater (a 1573) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Castelman (dau of R. Castelman) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Francis Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Elizabeth Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jerome Jones | |||||||||||||||
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| Thomas Pyke | |||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Scovile (dau/coheir of John Scovile of Brockley, m2. ?? Gilbert, m3. ?? Montacute) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | John Pyke, younger, of Brockley, Somerset | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Richard Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Thomas Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| B. | William Pyke (rector of Brockley) | ||||||||||||||
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| George Pyke or Pike of Baythorne in Birdwood (Essex), Sheene in Meldreth (Cambridgeshire), etc., Sheriff of Essex (b c1590 (in Essex?), d 09.1658, MP) | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (c1624) Margaret Woodcott (d 21.09.1637, dau of Edward Woodcott of Ipswich) | |||||||||||||||
| 1.+ | 3 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (1638) Elizabeth Gore (dau of Sir John Gore (who d c1636, alderman of London) | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | George Pyke or Pike 'of Trompington' of Sheene (dsps) | ||||||||||||||
| By his will (dated 1660), George passed Sheene to the younger son of his sister Elizabeth on condition that he change his name to Pyke. | |||||||||||||||
| m. (02.07.1660) Ann Freeman (dau of Ralph Freeman of Aspenden Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Elizabeth Pike (b 1638, youngest child) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1661) Gregory Baker (d 1661-2, son of John of Bishop's Stortford) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (18.10.1662) John Crouch (son/heir of John of Corneybury by dau of Sir John Scott of London) | |||||||||||||||
| Not clear which wife was mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas James | |||||||||||||||
| 7. | (Mercy) Pyke | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir James Whitlock | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Visitation (Frederic William Weaver (1885), Somerset, 1551+1575+1591, 'Pyke')
(2) For middle section : Visitation (Somersetshire, 1623, 'Harvy')
(3) For lower section : 'Pike/Pyke' (here) within the People-Family Histories section of www.meldrethhistory.org.uk
with thanks to a regular contributor (CV, 16.08.20) for drawing our attention to that impressive site
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