WYKES Family Summary

16-17C, Westminster MDX

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13 Nicholas WYKES

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12 Edward WYKES bc1534

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11 Aquila WYKES c1570-1655

m Dorothy DUNCOMBE 1612 St Mary le Strand

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10 Aquila WYKES 1625-1659

m 1650 Mary KNIGHTLEY 1650 Clerkenwell

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9 Mary WYKES c1654-1727?

m Robert DACKOMBE c1680

Aquila Wykes was born about 1570 probably the son of Edward Wykes of Gloucestershire. He married Dorothy Duncombe when he was about 40 years old and around this time he became keeper of the Gatehouse prison next to Westminster Abbey. The prison was often used for political prisoners including Sir Walter Ralegh on the night before his execution

Aquila’s son, also named Aquila, married Mary Knightley, from a wealthy Kingston family. He succeeded his father as prison keeper but died only four years after his father. His wife took on the post and remarried one of her Royalist prisoners, Sir Edward Broughton, just one year later.

Aquila’s daughter Mary, inherited £1000 from her father when she was 21, but her remarried mother left only £50 in her will to her “ungrateful and undutiful daughter”.

Mary married Robert Dackombe and lived in Holborn, where their fortunes deteriorated. By a twist of fate however, much of her mother’s fortune would eventually come to Mary’s descendants. Mary was probably buried at St Bride’s Fleet St in 1727, three years after her husband.

INDEX OF MARRIAGES ON THE WYKES FAMILY TREE

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BROUGHTON	Edward	c1700		Mary CRAVEN
BROUGHTON	Mary	c1718		Henry STRUDWICK
BROUGHTON	Sir Edward	c1660		Mary WYKES
BROUGHTON	Sir Edward	c1650		Alice HONEYWOOD
BROWNE	Charles	1763	St Martin in the Fields MDX	Ann ROOKWOOD
BROWNE	Stephen	1765	Shoreditch St Leonard MDX	Martha WYKES
CRAVEN	Mary	c1700		Edward BROUGHTON
DACKOMBE	Robert	c1680		Mary WYKES
DUNCOMBE	Dorothy	23Jul1612	St Mary le Strand MDX	Aquila WYKES
HONEYWOOD	Alice	c1650		Edward BROUGHTON
JERMY	Martha	5Jny1692	Norwich, St Mary in the Marsh, NFK	Edward WYKES
KNIGHTLEY	Mary	27Mar1650	Clerkenwell St James MDX	Aquila WYKES
ROOKWOOD	Ann	1763	St Martin in the Fields MDX	Charles BROWNE
ROOKWOOD	William	30Jny1722	Norwich St Stepehen NFK	Mary WYKES
STRUDWICK	Henry	c1718		Mary BROUGHTON
WHITMORE	Elizabeth	17Sep1727	Thurstaston CHS	Aquila WYKES

OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

1) B11. Origin of Aquila. Was he the son of Edward, third son of Nicholas?