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Dr G.M.W.Mann. Baytrees Burnhams Rd, Lt.Bookham Surrey, U.K. KT23 3AU |
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9 Mary WYKE c1654-1727?
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m Robert DACKOMBE c1680
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Mary was born about 1654 daughter of Aquila and Mary Wyke of Westminster. She inherited property or money worth £1000 when she was 21 from her father. Mary married Robert Dackombe about 1680. Robert was ten years older than Mary and was probably a widower with several children. Mary’s mother made a will the following year leaving her only £50, calling Mary “my unfortunate undutiful daughter ... she having formerly embezzled much of my estate”. Two children were baptised at St Andrew Holborn while Robert and Mary were living at Dean St, Fetter Lane. Two more were baptised at nearby St Bride’s, Fleet St. The fortunes of Mary and Robert began to deteriorate; Robert was named a gentleman at the baptism of his son in 1685, but in a tax assessment of 1695 he was listed in the general population, living with his wife in Plough Yard, Holborn. There were very many people living in others lived in Plough Yard at this time. In this year, Mary’s mother was buried in Westminster Abbey Robert became involved in Chancery proceedings concerning the rightful ownership of property in Denbighshire, occupied by Mary’s nephew. He travelled to Denbigh on at least one occasion; this was in 1718 when he was 74 and he was accused of helping his nephew’s right to the title by breaking in to a store-room through a window by ladder and burning vital documents. Robert died at the age of 80 and was buried in St Bride’s Fleet St. Mary was probably also buried there in February 1827 though the register records the name of the deceased as Martha. |
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c1654 9Apr1659 5 c1660 6 c1675 21 c1680 26 36 20Jny1681 27 37 4May1682 28 38 11Jny1685 31 41 21Mar1688 34 44 28Feb1689 35 45 19mar1695 41 51 1695 41 51 1718 64 74 16Jny1724 70 80 20Feb1827 73 |
Mary born, daughter of Aquilla and Mary WYKE father buried at Westminster St Margaret mother remarried Sir Edward Broughton inherited from her father’s will either property or £1000 married Robert DACKOMBE Mary’s mother’s will refers to her “ungrateful and undutiful” daughter
Mary DACKOMBE dau Mary C at Holborn St Andrew; Robert and Mary in Fetter Lane son Robert C at Holborn St Andrew, Robert, gent, in Dean St, Fetter
Lane dau Mary C at St Bride’s Fleet St son John C at St Bride's Fleet St Mary’s mother buried in Westminster Abbey Robert & Mary living in Plough Yard, Holborn Robert answered chancery suit; usual abode London, went to Marchwiel
Jun1718 Robert buried at St Bride’s Fleet St ?Mary buried at St
Bride’s Fleet St |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
From the will of Mary’s mother made in 1681, it is known
that living at that time were her two sons and a daughter Edward WYKE, Aquilla
WYKE, and Mary DACKOMBE all by her first husband. The baptism of one of these has been found at St Margaret’s
Westminster: C 20Jny1656/7 Edward s Aquila
& Mary WYKES; also the burial of another child: B 22Jun1652
Aquilla-Knightly WEEKES ch [=child]
It is known that Mary’s parents were married at Clerkenwell in 1650 and that her father died in 1659 (see WYKE-B10). Aquilla was born later than Edward so Mary was almost certainly therefore born between Aquilla Knightly and Edward, ie between 1653 and 1656. The absence of a baptism at St Margaret is puzzling as her father was closely associated with the parish as keeper of the Westminster Gatehouse Prison. One possibility is that the family had left London to escape plague, but the baptism has not yet been found elsewhere, and I have no evidence that 1653/6 were plague years.
John DACKOMBE-8 was baptised at St Bride’s Fleet St in February 1688/9, son of Robert &
Mary. Earlier baptisms are known at St
Bride’s and at Holborn St Andrew, but no preceding marriage has been found
From the will of Mary’ mother made in 20Jny1680/1, it is known that she had a daughter Mary WYKE born about 1658 who married a DACKOMBE; Chancery documents show that this DACKOMBE was named Robert. Descendants of Robert & Mary named Robert & Mary are known baptised in 1682 and 1684. Assuming these are among their first children, a marriage about 1680 is expected which fits well with Mary WYKE’s birth date (between 1652 and 1656) giving a marriage age between 24 and 28. The marriage must have taken place after 1670 (age18) and before Jny 1680/1 (date of will), but has not yet been found. If this was Robert’s second marriage (see Robert DACKOMBE-9) then the marriage must have taken place after 1677.
m c1680 Robert DACKOMBE & Mary WYKE
the marriage has not been found in the IGI nor in the whole
Boyd’s index searching both for variants of DACKOMBE and WYKE [IGI has Mary WEEKES of Clerkenwell m
16Mar1680, no husband named. This
marriage was found in the marriage licences issued by the Vicar General;
husband was Joseph WALKER and the m to take place at St Bartholomew the Great]
the marriage was not found in the following London
city churches (includes all those outside Boyd’s index) using original
registers or indexed transcripts: All Hallows London
Wall; Fleet Prison (very few c1680 and difficult to read on film; not found in
existing transcripts); Holy Trinity Minories; St Alban Wood St (Webb 106); St
Alphage London Wall; St Andrew Holborn; St Andrew Undershaft; St Andrew
Wardrobe; St Ann & St Agnes; St Ann Blackfriars; St Bartholomew the Great;
St Bartholomew the Less (Challen 52); St Botolph Aldgate; St Dunstan East (HS
84/5); St Gabriel Fenchurch (Webb 16 and 40); St James Garlickhithe; St Mary
Aldermanbury; St Mary at Hill (Challen 27); St Mary Somerset; St Michael
Cornhill; St Michael Queenhithe (Challen 27); St Olave Silver St (GL); St
Sepulchre (GL); St Stephen Coleman St (Challen 25); St Swithin London Stone
(Challen 31);Temple Church St Mary
not checked: All
Hallows Barking (incumbent); St Martin Pomeroy (PRO RG4/4436)
The following
Middlesex parishes were also searched, unless included in Boyd: Chelsea St
Luke (microfilm); Clerkenwell St James
(Boyd, HS); Edmonton (Webb15, microfilm); Enfield (Phillimore); Freiern
Barnet (transcript; microfilm); Hackney
St John (Boyd); Holborn St Andrew (film); Hornsey (microfilm); Islington St
Mary (microfilm);
Shoreditch St Leonard
(microfilm); St Clement Danes (WL microfilm); St Giles in the Fields
(microfilm); St Margaret Westminster (printed and original on film – very clear
writing); St Martin in the Fields (HS25; Boyd); St Mary le Strand (transcript;
Boyd; microfilm – but marriages missing May 1669- May 1680); St Marylebone
(Boyd); St.Pancras (microfilm); St Paul Covent Garden (Boyd; HS); Stoke
Newington St Mary (Boyd); Tottenham All Hallows (Phillimore; Webb15; microfilm);
Westminster Abbey (HS10); Whitechapel St Mary (microfilm)
not checked:
Savoy, St John the
Baptist (Queen’s chapel) CMB commence 1680 (incumbent)
St Ann Soho (m
registers commenced 1686)
also checked East Barnet
and Totteridge in Herts; Walthamstow and Waltham Holy Cross in Essex
also checked
Marchwiel, Gresford, Wrexham, Bangor on Dee, Ruabon, Holt, Hope, Treuddyn,
Nercwys, Mold in Denbigh
the marriage was not
found in the Dorset marriage index (100% coverage), nor in the Hayes index of
North Wales
The North London
parishes were checked because of the connection of Robert’s father with
Tottenham and Edmonton. The Denbigh
parishes were checked because Mary Wyke’s mother owned property at Marchwiel
and John-8 was married nearby; Dorset was checked because this is the origin of
the Dackombe family
the following
indexes/calendars have been searched:
Faculty Office (BRS
33); Vicar General (HS23, 30, 34); Bishop of London (BRS 66); Dean &
Chapter of Westminster, missing 1679-1688 (HS23); Archdeacon of London
1666-1691 (GL); Dean & Chapter of St Paul bonds 1670-1823 (GL)
Mary
WYKE’s family were at Westminster, and Robert & Mary lived in Holborn after
marriage. The marriage would thus be
expected in London, but the above exhaustive searches have not found it. The period is well after the restoration and
most parish records are well preserved.
One exception is the parish of St Mary le Strand which is lacking the
crucial period 1670 to 1680. The parish
is between Westminster, the home of Mary, and Holborn, where they lived. It is also close to St Martin in the Fields
where it is likely that Robert lived.
It is possible that the marriage took place in this parish
Robert is
believed to be the son of John of Tottenham, but the marriage has not been
found there either. Mary Wyke’s mother
had connections with Denbigh, and John-8 lived there after his marriage, but
Robert’s marriage has not been found in the Hayes index of N.Wales marriages.
Mary’s
mother referred to her daughter as “ungrateful and undutiful”. Perhaps then the marriage was a clandestine
one. It was not found at Holy Trinity
Minories, or at the Fleet prison, but there are very few records of the Fleet
preserved from the required period
Mary’s
brother Edward married in Norwich and settled in nearby Hethersett. This was almost certainly the home of his
bride; nevertheless the Norwich parishes will be searched for Robert’s
marriage. The Norfolk marriage index
for this period is unfortunately not available for searching at present
C 4May1682 Mary d Robert & Mary DUCKHAM in
Fetter Lane
C
11Jny1684 Robert s Robert & Mary DACKOMBE gent at – Rushes in Deane St in
Fetter Lane
C
21Mar1687 Mary d Robert & Mary DACKOMBE
C
28Feb1688+John s d Robert & Mary DACKOMB
Robert DACKOMBE answered a chancery bill on
9Feb1718; he was mentioned in a bill dated 1724 but it is not clear whether he
was then living; he was not a defendant in a bill of 1736, and a bill dated
1738 noted that he was now deceased.
A probably burial has been found at St
Bride’s Fleet St:
B
16Jny1723/4 Robert DASCOMB Lg aff
the
initials Lg[?] appear after almost every burial; aff refers to burial in woollen
The original register was examined on film
and the writing is clear; little doubt about the spelling, though the “s” is
little more than a line. However it was
considered unlikely to be an old “c” as no other “c” was found written in this
manner. However, bearing in mind the
uncommon surname, the correct forename, the parish in which Robert baptised two
children, and the date falling within the known limits, there is little doubt
that this is the correct burial. No
burial of Robert was found in Holborn St Andrew or in any Denbigh parishes near
Marchwiel.
a possible burial of Mary was also found at St Bride’s:
B 20Feb1726/7 Martha DASCOMBE
again the writing in the original was clear and the repetition of the surname as Dascombe throws the above assumption into doubt. Dascombe is found primarily in Devon, and it is possible that these burials refer to a different couple altogether, Robert and Martha Dascombe. However there is no reference to either of these people in the IGI and no other reference has yet been found. The date gives a reasonable age of 73 at death for Mary, and at present it will be assumed that the register has a double error, Martha for Mary and Dascombe for Dackombe but further research is needed.
abstract from photocopy
2Apr1659Aquila WYKES in the city of Westminster gentleman……. and concerning the disposition of such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with all; First I give devise and bequeath to my loving wife Mary WYKES all that my messuage or tenement together with the stable and coachhouse and a garden now in the occupation of Oliver Lord FitzWilliam in the Broad Sanctuary in the parish of St Margaret in Westminster, adjoining and abutting on the messuage wherein the said Aquila WYKES do now dwell on the west and on the west end of the Abby Church in Westminster aforesaid on the east to have and to hold the to said Mary Wykes my wife until Mary Wykes my daughter shall attain the age of 21 or be married which such shall happen, provided always that my said wife shall well and truly maintain educate and bring up my daughter until 21 or married; and after my daughter shall attain her age of 21 or be married which shall first happen I give unto my daughter Mary Wykes and her heirs the foresaid messuage [etc] to have and to hold unto my said daughter her heirs and assigns for ever provided always nevertheless and upon condition that if my heirs executors or administrators shall well and truly pay unto my said daughter Mary Wykes the full and whole sum of £1000 at 21 or marriage which shall first happen that then and from henceforth this devise and bequest of the said messuage [etc] to my daughter shall be void and it shall be lawful to and for my heirs and assigns into the said messuage [etc] to enter and the same to have hold and enjoy for ever provided also that if my said daughter shall in the lifetime of my wife marry with or be married unto any person or persons without and against the consent and good liking of my wife that then and from henceforth the bequest and bequeath made aforesaid to my daughter shall be utterly void. ITEM I give to my wife during her life all the rest of my messuages land hereditaments wheresoever provided always that my wife shall educate and bring up and cause to be well educated and brought up at school and in learning and also well and sustinencly maintain in meat drink apparel and all other necessary and conveniences both my sons Edward and Aquila Wykes in such manner as shall be fitting for their qualities and condition. An from and after the decease of my wife I give to my youngest son Aquila Wykes and his heirs all my messuages lands tenements and hereditaments in Brewers Yard in parish of St Margaret now or later in occupation of Edward Beattersby or his assigns and also all my messuages and tenements in Pettifrance in St Margaret’s now or late in occupation of Boyd widow or her assigns to have and to hold [etc] from and after the decease of my wife to my son Aquila Wykes and his heirs for ever to the only use and behoof of my son Aquila Wykes. AND my will and meaning is that after the decease of my said wife, all the rest of messuages land tenements [etc] whatsoever wherein I the said Aquila Wykes testator shall die seized, shall remain descend and come[?] to my eldest son Edward Wykes his heirs and assigns for ever. AND all my goods ----- and personal effects whatsoever (my debts and funeral charges being paid and satisfied) I give and bequeath to my loving wife Mary Wykes whom I ordain to be sole executrix of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have…set my hand and seal the day and year above written. A.Wykes. Published subscribed and sealed in the presence of Robert KNIGHTLEY Tho CHAMPION Thomas HOARD[?] Lenor: Thompson
proved 25May1659 by Mary Wykes relict and sole executrix
Summary:
wife:
Mary WYKES sole executrix everything left to her during her life, except a house, stable,
coachhouse and garden, next to the Abbey and next to Aquila’s own house; this property (occupied by Lord Oliver
FitzWilliam) to go to daughter Mary when she reaches 21 or marries. She must educate and maintain daughter Mary
and sons Edward and Aquila
daughter: Mary WYKES; bequeathed the house described above when she is 21 or marries UNLESS:
1) the executor or administrators pay her £1000 (worth about £100,000 in today’s money) at 21 or marriage in stead of the property
2) she marries against the liking or consent of her mother, then the bequest is void
youngest son: Aquila; bequeathed after the death of his mother:
1) houses and land in Brewers Yard, Westminster occupied by Edward Beattersby
2) houses and land in Pettifrance, Westminster occupied by widow Boyd
eldest son: Edward WYKES; bequeathed all the rest after the death of his mother
signed 2Apr1659; proved 25May1659;
20Jny1680, Dame Mary BROUGHTON of Marchwiel
alias Conqueress Hall in the County of Denbigh widow…Imprimis I give unto my son Edward Broughton all my house and tenement with the
appurtenances in the market place in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey now or late
in tenure of Robert HUNTON or his assigns with all ways watercourses stables
gardens orchards stalls or standings; Also I give to my said son Edward all
my house and tenement with the appurtenances lying between the gatehouse at
Westminster and the Convict prison of the Lord Bishop of London on the east now
or late in the occupation of John SCAMDON gent with all stables coach houses
[etc] ; I also give to my said son Edward all my rights and interest in the convict
prison together with the mansion House and messuage now built upon the said
prison wherein the Countess of Tirconnel now dwelleth at the West end of the
liberty called Westminster Abbey with all stable coach houses [etc] And I give unto my said son Edward
all my other right leasetitle and interest in all my estate personal and real
in the County of Middx and City of Westminster and County of Surrey having
purchased the same with my own real money or portion or patrimonial estate provided that said Edward Broughton
shall pay unto my two other sons Edward and Aquila WYKE four score pounds yearly during their lives,
that is to say £40 a year to each son paid quarterly by equal portions Provided that my said son Edward
Broughton shall neglect or refuse to pay unto my said two undutiful sons Edward
and Aquila Wyke if lawfully demanded of the Said Edward Broughton at his
Mansion house at Marshweil als Conqueress Hall them my said devise of the
premises in Midx and Westminster to be void and the said houses to go to my
said other two sons Edward and Aquila Wyke. Item I
give to my son Edward Broughton and to his heirs all my messuage called
Marshweil als Conqueress Hall with the barns stables [etc] in the parishes of
Marchweil Wrexham Holt and Shocklythe in Counties of Denbigh Flint and Chester
and for want of such issue … to my second son Aquila Wyke and the heirs of his
body … and for want of such issue then to the use and behoof of my oldest son
Edward Wyke and the heirs of his body … and for want of such issue …to my own
right heirs for ever Provided always that the said messuages lands [etc] so
devised to my three sons shall stand charged with the legacies hereafter
mentioned ..paid within one year after my decease Item I give unto my unfortunate undutiful daughter Mary
DACOMBE daughter of my first husband Aquila Wyke deceased she having formerly
embezzled much of my Estate £50 Item for my waiting woman £10; to every servant at the
time of my death 40 shillings; to the poor of the parish whereat I am buried
£10; to the preacher that preaches my funeral sermon £10; to my friend Mr Roger
JACKSON £100 to whose care I leave the management of my estate for the benefit
of my children according to my disposition Item I give to my son Edward Broughton all the
residue of my goods chattels leases bonds [etc] he paying my debts and my
legacies And
I appoint my said son Edward Broughton and my said loving friend Roger JACKSON
my sole executors. Signed in the presence of Thomas CRUE John RICHARDSON Daniel
BROWNE
Proved
1Mar1694 by Sir Edward Broughton Bt