Spackman Spakeman Speakman Spekeman Genealogy

23 August 2006

 

 

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Dr G.M.W.Mann.     Baytrees

Burnhams Rd,   Lt.Bookham

Surrey, U.K.          KT23 3AU

geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

 

 

SPEAKMAN Family Summary

17-19C Cambridgeshire, NE Essex, Terling ESS

 

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11 Thomas SPAKEMAN 1605?-1665

      m Alice HAILOCK 1629 West Wickham

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10 Robert SPEAKMAN 1631-1709

      m Frances c1660

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  9 Thomas SPEAKMAN ?1661-1719

  m Hester c1690

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8 John SPEAKMAN 1705-1793

  m Ann FRENCH 1737 Toppesfield

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7 Francis SPEAKMAN 1757-1813

  m Ann Martha SIMONS 1778 Writtle

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6 Ann Martha SPEAKMAN 1779-1854

  m John SMITH 1799 Boreham

 

 

The SPEAKMAN family has been traced back to the SE corner of Cambridgeshire, where Thomas SPAKEMAN married Alice HAILOCK in 1629

 

His grandson, Thomas SPEAKMAN, moved to Finchingfield in Essex around 1700 where he improved his lot from bricklayer and labourer to farmer.

 

His son John married the daughter of a farmer and migrated further south through Gosfield to Terling, where his sons became farmers and prosperous members of the Terling vestry.  One of them, William, left over £1000 in his will of 1813,

while another son, Thomas, occupied Fairstead Hall  (an extensive tree of his many descendants has been constructed).

 

John and Ann were buried in Terling in 1793 where  their gravestone is inscribed "A father kind a mother dear, two faithful friends lie buried here".

 

Their youngest son Francis became a farmer in the adjacent parish of Gt Leighs.  He had only one child, a daughter, Ann Martha, who married John SMITH, a farmer of nearby Lt.Waltham in 1799.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDEX OF MARRIAGES ON THE SPEAKMAN FAMILY TREE

 

 

SURNAME           DATE/PLACE MARRIAGE    TREE  MARRIED TO:

ALGAR Sarah                21Sep1809 Terling ESS                 SpeaT7  SPEAKMAN John

ARNOLD Elizabeth            7Jun1770 Terling ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Robert

BANKS Mary Ann                 c1815                             SpeaT7  SPEAKMAN John

BEADEL John                 7Sep1801 Fairsted ESS                SpeaT7  SPEAKMAN Ann

BEADEL John                25Feb1802 Fairsted ESS                SpeaT7  SPEAKMAN Jane (nee GREENWOOD)

BURNEY Sarah               28Feb1764 Weeley ESS                  SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN John

FRENCH Ann                 13Sep1737 Toppesfield ESS             SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN John

FRENCH Thomas              30Oct1770 Gt.Yeldham ESS              SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Mary

GREENWOOD Jane             20Oct1772 Terling ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Thomas

HART Elizabeth             21Apr1768 Terling ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN William

LARK James                 21Dec1721 Finchingfield ESS           SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Sara (nee SAFFOLD)

MITCHELL Anne              14Jul1763 Chipping Ongar ESS          SpeaT0  SPAKEMAN William

NEWMAN Elizabeth           13Apr1732 Gt.Dunmow ESS               SpeaT0  SPEKMAN Robert

ORRELL Thomas              25Dec1793 Terling ESS                 SpeaT7  SPEAKMAN Mary

SAFFOLD Sarah              14Feb1716 Wethersfield ESS            SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Thomas

SIMONS Ann Martha          14Jul1778 Writtle ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Francis

SMITH John                 17Apr1799 Boreham ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Ann Martha

SMITH Mary                  2Feb1746+Witham ESS                  SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN William

WILLSHIRE John             17Jan1766 Terling ESS                 SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN Ann

WILSON Susannah            22May1772 Hatfield Peveril ESS        SpeaT0  SPEAKMAN William

 

 

OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

 

1)     B9.  Origin of Thomas, born about 1660; his marriage to Hester c1690 and the baptism of their two eldest children Thomas and Frances c1692/1694.  Can it be proved that Thomas was the son of Robert & Frances C 17Oct1661 at Hildersham CAM?