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"Leeke", "Leke", "Lake" and "Leake" appear to be alternative spellings accepted by various members of this family tree.
Born: 1355, Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: 1415, Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Isabel TOWER (dau. of John Towers of Somerby)
Children:
3. John LEKE
4. Margaret LEKE
Born: ABT 1388, Coats, Lincolnshire, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel TOWER
Married: John DYMOKE of Coats ABT 1420, Coats, Lincolnshire, England
Children:
1. John DYMOKE
3. Andrew DYMOKE
Born: ABT 1370, Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: BET 1426 - 1430
Father: John LEKE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel TOWER
Married 1: Margaret VAUX
Children:
1. William LEKE (MP)
2. Ralph LEKE
3. John LEKE
Married 2: Jane TALBOT
Children:
1. Mary LEKE
3. Anne LEKE
Born: ABT 1417, Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: 27 Mar 1455, South Petherton, Somerset, England
Father: Simon LEKE (Esq.)
Mother: Jane TALBOT
Married: Giles DAUBENEY (Sir Knight) BEF 18 May 1436, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Children:
Died: 21 Oct 1454
Father: Simon LEKE (Esq.)
Mother: Jane TALBOT
Married: John MARKHAM of Sedgebrook (Sir)
Children:
1. John MARKHAM (d. 1458)
2. Simon MARKHAM
3. Thomas MARKHAM of Sedgebrook
Born: ABT 1379, Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: 1450, Grove, Nottinghamshire, England
Father: Simon LEKE (Esq.)
Mother: Jane TALBOT
Married: Hugh HERCY of Grove (Sir) (son of Sir Thomas Hercy amd Catherine Comberford)
Children:
1. Hugh HERCY of Grove (Esq.)
2. Isabella HERCY
Born: ABT 1425
Died: AFT 1471
Father: Simon LEKE (Esq.)
Mother: Jane TALBOT
Married: Richard WILLOUGHBY
Born: 1390, Carlton, Suffolk, England
Died: ABT 1430, Beccles, Suffolk, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel TOWER
Married 1: Alice De GREY
Children:
2. Thomas LEKE
3. Anne LEKE
Married 2: Jenet CALLEY (dau. of Sir William Caley of Northampton and Alice De Braose)
Children:
5. John LEKE
Died: 1500
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Alice De GREY
Married: John DISNEY
Children:
1. John DISNEY (b. 1433 – d. 1480) (m. Margaret Neville)
2. Miles DISNEY
3. Maud DISNEY (b. 1437 – d. 1485)
3. Richard DISNEY (b. 1443 – d. 1492) (m. Jane Middleton)
4. Edward DISNEY (m. Catherine Blaunche)
5. Thomas DISNEY
6. Catherine DISNEY (m. William Staunton)
Born: ABT 1410, Meath, Ireland
Died: ABT 1475, Normanton, West Yorkshire, England
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Jenet CALLEY
Married: Jane DRAKES (dau. of Robert Drakes and Eleanor Rokeley)
Children:
1. John LEKE
Born: 1445, Meath, Ireland
Died: ABT 1475, Normanton, Yorkshire, England
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Jane DRAKES
Married: Maud ?
Children:
Born: 1465, Meath, Ireland
Died: 8 May 1559, Normanton, Yorkshire, England
Buried: Wakefied, West Yorkshire, England
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Maud ?
Married: Margaret TWISLETON (dau. of Henry Twisleton)
Children:
Born: 1502
Father: Lancelot LEKE
Mother: Margaret TWISLETON
Married: Elizabeth LONE
Children:
Born: ABT 1535, Irby, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 1575, Lincolnshire, England
Buried: Irby-upon-Humher, Lincolnshire, England
Notes: will dated 26 Apr 1575. John was "a little tailor in a little village".
Father: John LAKE of Irby
Mother: Elizabeth LONE
Married 1: Agnes THARROT (d. 1562) ABT 1560
Married 2: Margaret OSGODBY (b. ABT 1545 - d. 1601) ABT 1570
Children:
Born: 1570, Irby, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 17 Dec 1626
Father: John LAKE of Irby
Mother: Margaret OSGODBY
Married 1: Anne WARDALL (dau. of Edward Wardall of Keilby)
Children:
1. Edward LAKE (1° Bt. of Carnow)
Married 2: Anne MORELLY (dau. of Richard Morelly of Claxby)
Children:
2. Henry LAKE
3. Richard LAKE
4. Ambrose LAKE
5. John LAKE
6. Luke LAKE
7. Thomas LAKE (Capt.)
8. Anne LAKE
Edward LAKE (1° Bt. of Carnow)
Born: ABT 1599
Christened: 22 Feb 1599/1600
Died: 18 Jul 1674
Buried: Lincoln Cathedral
Notes: He received the degree of B. A. at Oxford in 1627. He was an eminent lawyer, becoming advocate general for Ireland. On the outbreak of the English Civil Wars, he both fought and wrote on the Kings side. At the battle of Edgehill he received sixteen wounds, and having lost the use of his left hand by a shot, he placed his horses bridle between his teeth and fought with his sword in his right hand.
He was promised as his reward a barony and an augmentation to his arms by King Charles I, in 1643. But since the King was beheaded and the period of the Commonwealth intervened, nothing was done until 1661. King Charles II then made him Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln, and the augmented coat of arms promised by King Charles I was in 1661 formally authorized by the College of Arms.
The will of Sir Edward Lake is dated 8 Apr 1665. In the will he leaves a bequest to the Church at Normanton near Pontefract in Yorkshire, because it was the home of his paternal ancestors. He mentions his kinsman and servant Christopher Lake, his brother John Lake, his nephew Francis Lake of Hatcliffe, the eldest son of his brother Luke Lake, and Stephen, eldest son of his brother Thomas Lake. He named his half-brother Thomas Lake, Jr. [SIC: nephew] Exec.
Father: Richard LAKE of Irby
Mother: Anne WARDALL
Married: Anne BIBYE (dau. of Simon Biby or Bybye)
Children:
1. Edward LAKE (d. young)
Born: 26 Oct 1572, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 1674
Father: John LAKE of Irby
Mother: Margaret OSGODBY
Married: Mary BROWNE
Children:
1. Francis LAKE (b. 1616)
Born: 1407, Kirkton, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: ABT 1458
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Alice De GREY
Married: Jane THOMAS
Children:
Father: Thomas LEKE
Mother: Jane THOMAS
Married: Richard WHALLEY (son of Henry Whalley and Dorothy Willoughby)
Children:
1. Thomas WHALLEY
Born: ABT 1434
Died: 1 Dec 1474
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Alice De GREY
Married: Catherine CHAWORTH 1462, Ripinghall, Lincolnshire, England
Children:
3. Catherine LEKE
4. Margery LEKE
Father: William LEKE of Lakeford
Mother: Catherine CHAWORTH
Married: Son PECK
Born: ABT 1454, Southwell Dale, Derbyshire, England
Died: 31 Mar 1505, Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire, England
Father: William LEKE of Lakeford
Mother: Catherine CHAWORTH
Married 1: Elizabeth SAVAGE
Children:
2. Thomas LEKE (d. ABT 1512)
3. Muriel LEKE
6. Mary LEKE
Married 2: Alice ?
Born: 1475
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth SAVAGE
Married 1: Robert WATERTON of Walton and Sandal (Sir Knight) (son of Sir John Waterton and Maud Fairfax)
Children:
1. Thomas WATERTON (Sir Knight) (m. Joan Tempest)
2. Susan WATERTON (m. Nicholas Palmes)
Married 2: George LINACRE
Born: 1476, Sutton, Derbyshire, England
Died: 24 May 1529, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth SAVAGE
Married: Godfrey FOLJAMBE (Sir Knight) (b. 27 Mar 1472 - d. 20 Dec 1541) (son of Henry Foljambe and Benedicta Vernon)
Children:
1. John FOLJAMBE
2. Benedicta FOLJAMBE
3. Catherine FOLJAMBE (m. Sir Thomas Neville of Holt)
4. James FOLJAMBE (Sir) (b. ABT 1511 - d. ABT 1558) (m. Alice Fitzwilliam)
5. Godfrey FOLJAMBE
6. George FOLJAMBE (b. ABT 1512 - d. ABT 1563) (m. Dorothy Barlow)
7. Anne FOLJAMBE
Born: ABT 1477, Sutton, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: ABT 1545, Derby, Derbyshire, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth SAVAGE
Married 1: John FRESCHVILLE
Children:
1. Peter FRESCHVILLE (m. Elizabeth Tempest)
Married 2: Brian HASTINGS of Fenwick (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1458, Carlton, Suffolk, England
Died: 17 Nov 1529, Beccles, Suffolk, England
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth SAVAGE
Married 1: Jane FOLJAMBE (dau. of Henry Foljambe and Benedicta Vernon)
Children:
1. John LEKE
2. Francis LEKE of Sutton Scarsdale (Sir)
Married 2: Alice BERTRAM (d. Sep 1538)
Married 3: Margery OFFLEY (d. 1548) (dau. of John Offley)
Children:
3. Margery LEKE
Born: ABT 1495
Died: ABT 1553
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Jane FOLJAMBE
Married: Margaret PASTON
Children:
Born: ABT 1526
Died: AFT 1558
Notes: deputy auditor of augmentations to Matthew Colthurst, a servant of the Protector Somerset. Colthurst’s previous deputy, Ralph Lambe, is not known to have acted after 1546 and Leke may have replaced him then, although his first certificate for Devon is dated 27 Feb 1548. After the dissolution of the court of augmentations certificates for west-country grants were issued by John Hornyold, one of the auditors of the Exchequer: Hornyold, compiling a list of the debts of the office for which he had assumed responsibility, discovered a fraud committed by Leke in 1553. Leke was called before Treasurer Winchester, confessed that he had failed to account for £100 which he had received, and was sent to the Fleet. After three months in prison he appeared before the Star Chamber and was ordered to pay a fine of £100, to stand in the pillory and to appear before all the courts in Westminster Hall with a paper upon his head with his offence—‘an auditor for false usage in his office’: after which he was to return to the Fleet. Eventually he was freed and his fine remitted ‘in respect of his poverty’.
Leke’s return for Lyme Regis to the Parliament of 1547 is doubtless to be attributed to his official position and connexions, particularly through Colthurst. His kin may have encouraged him to seek Membership on this occasion, as two of his uncles, John Paston and Sir Francis Leke, procured their own election to this Parliament. By 1554, when Leke was re-elected, Colthurst had attached himself to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Since Pembroke was constable of Devizes castle, it is likely that Leke was a nominee of the Earl’s for the borough, as was his fellow-Member Thomas Highgate: the names of both Leke and Highgate were inserted in a different hand in the election indenture. The Journal does not mention Leke.
In 1552 Leke was granted a 21-year lease of the manor house at Iwerne Courtnay in Dorset but within a few years he had surrendered his title. He probably lived in London and may have been the Henry Leke of the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great whose widow Jane (by then married to Roger Edwards) obtained administration of his estate in Oct 1561.
Father: John LEKE
Mother: Margaret PASTON
Married: Jane ?
Francis LEKE of Sutton Scarsdale (Sir)
Born: ABT 1510
Died: 1580
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John LEKE (Sir Knight)
Mother: Jane FOLJAMBE
Married: Elizabeth PASTON
Children:
1. John LEKE
2. Frances LEKE (m. Son Markham)
4. Eleanor LEKE
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
5. Thomas LEKE
6. Son LEKE
Born: 1542, Sutton, Durham, England
Died: 1626, Newark, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Francis LEKE of Sutton Scarsdale (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth PASTON
Married 1: Frances SWIFT (d. 1610) (dau. of Robert Swift and Eleanor Wickersley)
Children:
1. Mary LEKE
2. Francis LEAKE (1° E. Scarsdale)
Married 2: Mary EGIOKE (d. 19 Jan 1631) (dau. of John Egioke and Anne Huband) (m.2 Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet)
Children:
3. Richard LEAKE
Born: ABT 1538
Died: 1575
Father: Francis LEAKE (Sir)
Mother: Frances SWIFT
Married: Robert MARKHAM (Sheriff of Nottingham)
Children:
2. Robert MARKHAM (Sir Knight)3. George MARKHAM (b. 1555 - d. AFT 1575)
8. John MARKHAM
10. Mary MARKHAM
11. Anne MARKHAM (b. 1580 - d. 1607)
12. Isabel MARKHAM
13. Elizabeth MARKHAM
Francis LEAKE (1° E. Scarsdale)
Born: 1581
Died: 1655
Father: Francis LEAKE (Sir)
Mother: Frances SWIFT
Married: Anne CAREY 16 Sep 1607, Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
Children:
1. Anne LEAKE
2. Nicholas LEAKE (2° E. Scarsdale)
3. Penelope LEAKE
4. Frances LEAKE
5. Francis LEAKE
6. Edward LEAKE
7. Henry LEAKE
8. Catherine LEAKE
9. Elizabeth LEAKE
10. Charles LEAKE
11. Muriel LEAKE
Born: ABT 1458, Hasland, Derbyshire, England
Died: 1523, Hardwick Hall, Doe Lea, Derbyshire, England
Father: William LEKE of Lakeford
Mother: Catherine CHAWORTH
Married 1: Margaret FOX
Children:
2. John LEKE
Married: Jane LEKE
Children:
4. Elizabeth LEKE
Father: Thomas LEKE of Hasland
Mother: Margaret FOX
Married: Elizabeth HOPE
Children:
1. Ralph LEKE
Father: Thomas LEKE of Hasland
Mother: Margaret FOX
Married: George LINACRE
Born: ABT 1497, Hasland, Derbyshire, England
Died: ABT 1570
Father: Thomas LEKE of Hasland
Mother: Margaret FOX
Married 1: John HARDWICK of Hardwick (b. ABT 1495 - d. 1526) (son of John Hardwick and Elizabeth Pinchbeck)Children:
1. Jane HARDWICK (m. Sir Godfrey Bosville)
2. Mary HARDWICK (m. Richard Wingfield)
3. Alice HARDWICK (m. Francis Leke)4. James HARDWICK (b. 1524 - d. 1579)
5. Elizabeth De HARDWICK (C. Shrewsbury) (See her Biography)
6. Thomasine HARDWICK7. Sarah HARDWICK (m. Son Foljambe)
8. Joyce HARDWICK (b. 1510 - d. 6 Mar 1585) (m. Michael Purefoy of Caldecote)
9. Jocosa HARDWICK
Married 2: Ralph LEKE of Chatsworth
Children:10. Jane LEKE
11. Margaret LEKE
12. Joan LEKE
13. Alice LEKE
14. Elizabeth LEKE
Father: Phillip LEKE
Mother: Anne VERNON
Married: Anne BABINGTON (d. 1538) (dau. of Thomas Babington and Edith Fitzherbert) (m.2 Roger Greenhaugh of Teversall)
Children:
1. Thomas LEKE
2. Francis LEKE
Father: George LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Anne BABINGTON
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT 1518, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England
Died: 1550
Notes: a nephew of Ralph Leke of Chatsworth offered the old family property to Thomas Agarde, for £700. The Leke family, including Ralph Leke, who owned the property as Beeley which marched with the Chatsworth land, were aghast when they discovered what Francis had done, and clamoured for the bargain to be rescinded.
Father: Francis LEKE
Mother: ¿?
Married: Alice HARDWICK (dau. of John Hardwick of Hardwick and Elizabeth Leke)
Born: ABT 1494, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England
Died: ABT 1550, Feyfield, Worcestershire, England
Father: George LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Anne BABINGTON
Married: Elizabeth LEKE
Children:1. Jane LEKE
3. Joan LEKE
4. Alice LEKE
Married: Dau. HARRIS
Children:
Born: ABT 1533, Derbyshire, England
Died: AFT 1603
Notes: half-sister and close friend of Bess of Hardwick, whose gentlewoman she became during Bess’s marriages to Sir William Cavendish, Sir William St. Loe and George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. Jane Kniveton was frequently left in charge of Bess household and estates and accompanied her to court for eight weeks in 1591-2, just after the deaths of their respective husbands.
Father: Ralph LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Elizabeth LEKE
Married: Thomas KNIVETON of Mercaston (MP)
Children:
1. Margaret KNIVETON
2. Elizabeth KNIVETON
3. George KNIVETON
4. Saintlow KNIVETON
5. William KNIVETON (1° Bt.)
6. Anne KNIVETON
7. Mary KNIVETON
8. Jane KNIVETON
9. Gilbert KNIVETON (Sir)
Died: 1601
Notes: half sister of Bess of Hardwick and was living with her in London in 1558, before her first marriage. In 1598-1600, and possibly earlier, a Mistress Wingfield was mother of maids at the court of Queen Elizabeth. It is possible, though not confirmed, that this was Elizabeth Leeche. “Mrs. Wingfield, wife of Pollard” was buried 6 Jan 1601 in St. James, Clerkenwell (London).
Father: Ralph LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Elizabeth LEKE
Married 1: Anthony WINGFIELD
Married 2: George POLLARD of Tetbury
Born: ABT 1534, Hardwick, Derbyshire, England
Died: 1595
Father: Ralph LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Elizabeth LEKE
Married 1: John HARRISON
Children:
1. John HARRISON (Sir)
2. Isabel HARRISON
3. Charles HARRISON
4. George HARRISON
5. Rowland HARRISON
6. Richard Augustus HARRISON (Sir)
Married 2: Richard SLAUGHTER of Sutton
Children:
7. Henry SLAUGHTER
8. Elizabeth SLAUGHTER
9. Anne SLAUGHTER
10. George SLAUGHTER
Father: Ralph LEKE of Chatsworth
Mother: Dau. HARRIS
Married 1: Dau. PRESLAND
Children:
1. William LEKE
2. George LEKE
Married 2: Elizabeth OKEOVER
Children:
3. John LEKE of Carden
4. Anne LEKE
5. Ralph LEKE
6. Elizabeth LEKE
7. Alicia LEKE
8. Joan LEKE
Father: Thomas LEKE of Halloughton
Mother: ¿?
Married: William THOROLD (d. 1569) (m.2 Margaret Hussey)
Children:
1. Anthony THOROLD of Marston and Blankney (Sir) (See his Biography) (m.1 Margaret Sutton - m.2 Anne Constable)
