Eke! Wood Dalling, Corpusty...eeeeek!

[robbieuk]

Hello!

I am overrun with EKEs. It appeared once or twice in the tree...and now seems to have taken firm root.

William Eke (b1807 in Wood Dalling) married my relation Sarah Hill (b1806 Wood Dalling). Their family of seven children spread there wings and settled in Stody, Saxthorpe, Norwich, Menston in Yorkshire via Chester le Street, Rotherham via Sheffield - and Wood Dalling.

Other links too for Eke to Bullock and Platten in Saxthorpe area.

Let me know if any of you have connections...

Rob

[Pam Downes]

Hi Rob,
Are you just looking for people who connect with your mob, or are you looking for BMD and census info for them too?
If the latter, I presume you've tried the usual sites? viz
http://www.genealogy.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php
http://www.norfolkhistory.co.uk/ (search engine on home page - you get 13 Ekes)
Pam Downes

[robbieuk]

Thanks Pam, these are both great sites.

I am looking for individuals with connections to the families mentioned.

Rob

[algipug]

Rob,
Re the above and your message re William and Sarah one of those 7 children is my g/grandfather namely William who married Caroline Jarvis and lived at Little London,Corpusty and had 6 children themselves including only one male my grandfather William John Francis.
Two of the sons of William/Sarah, Francis and Richard both ended up in the police force in Yorkshire.

[robbieuk]

Thanks for your message, glad to hear there are some other family historians in the tree.
What part of Yorkshire did the Ekes end up in? My stepmother is from near Keighley, it's a beautiful county.

Rob

[margaretparkin]

do yu have an eke married to a stonex she appears on one worldtree but Im not sure possibly ann
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[Karrie Cutlets]

I am helping a work colleague trace their tree but have come a bit unstuck with the Eke's.

Her gt grandfather was Harry Eke (1861 Islington). Harry's parents were William Eke (1827 Corpusty) & Elizabeth Cook (1831 Water End).

I have William & elizabeths marriage certificate & Williams father was Jonas Eke (1803 Corpusty). I have William on the census with his father Jonas, Jonas' wife Martha & several other children (all the dates & occupation match).

I have come across the following website

http://www.mjra.net/eke-j-1803.shtml

However thats where my problem starts. That website shows William with the same siblings that I have him with. However it says that William remained in Corpusty. My William however moved to Kensington/Islington & I have found that Jonas & martha died in London.

From that website it would appear that Martha wasnt Williams mother, but Jonas had a first wife called Caroline.

I have emailed the creator of the site but not had a reply.

Anyone got any information that may help me confirm that the Williams are in fact the same person & the website is incorrect about where he lived & died?

Thanks

[michaelpipe]

Hello!

I am overrun with EKEs. It appeared once or twice in the tree...and now seems to have taken firm root.

William Eke (b1807 in Wood Dalling) married my relation Sarah Hill (b1806 Wood Dalling)..........

Rob

Hi Robbieuk,
I have an Eliza EKE in Wood Dalling, born around 1805, who married (abt 1825) William Cable from Heydon. Have you come across an Eliza born around this time in Wood Dalling?

Michael

[Karrie Cutlets]

Hi Michael

I havent in the tree that i'm doing at the moment, but i'll keep an eye out

[Geoffers]

Harry Eke (1861 Islington). Harry's parents were William Eke (1827 Corpusty) & Elizabeth Cook (1831 Water End). I have William & elizabeths marriage certificate & Williams father was Jonas Eke (1803 Corpusty). I have William on the census with his father Jonas, Jonas' wife Martha & several other children (all the dates & occupation match).

Which census and where? Don't forget relationships given are to the head of the household. It would be wrong to assume that just because someone is shown as the son/daughter of a chap, the same chap's wife is the mother of the same children.


website shows William with the same siblings that I have him with. However it says that William remained in Corpusty. My William however moved to Kensington/Islington & I have found that Jonas & martha died in London.

Do you have William appearing in a census in London? If so, would you post the details here? It may help to unravel the mystery


From that website it would appear that Martha wasnt Williams mother, but Jonas had a first wife called Caroline.

We have a few Corpusty records indexed on the Norfolk Transcription Archive. These show several children to Jonas and Caroline - als that Caroline popped her clogs aged 35 and was buried at Corpusty in 1838.

Jonas looks to have remarried in Dec quarter 1838 (try freebmd) - there is a Martha REYNOLDS with the same reference.

Fare y'well tergether

[michaelpipe]

This thread appears to have been hijacked from the original post by robbieuk regarding Eke originating in Wood Dalling, so I am posting this one again!!!!!



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Originally Posted by robbieuk View Post
Hello!

I am overrun with EKEs. It appeared once or twice in the tree...and now seems to have taken firm root.

William Eke (b1807 in Wood Dalling) married my relation Sarah Hill (b1806 Wood Dalling)..........

Rob
Hi Robbieuk,
I have an Eliza EKE in Wood Dalling, born around 1805, who married (abt 1825) William Cable from Heydon. Have you come across an Eliza born around this time in Wood Dalling?

Michael

[Karrie Cutlets]

Thanks.. after some more resaerch, I can confirm that Caroline was Williams mother.

I have William on the 1861 census with his wife Elizabeth (Cook)& their children Mary, Samuel & Albert.

They are living Islington St Mary

Maybe you misunderstood my query. I wasnt querying William's mother but whether my William (who moved to London) is the same William shown on the Eke website

[Geoffers]

Maybe you misunderstood my query. I wasnt querying William's mother but whether my William (who moved to London) is the same William shown on the Eke website

No, I understood the query and confirming the first marriage to Caroline was intended to assist. My other point's to try and clear up whether there was just one William - or more and to try and establish if either you or the person whose web-site you mentioned had misinterpreted information.

[robbieuk]

Hello,

I hope to tie up some loose ends here.

Algipug:
We are connected through this family (Hill and Jarvis) so please do get in touch.

Michael Pipe:
I checked the IGI site and found an Elizabeth Eke baptised 1807 at Wood Dalling, the daughter of Joseph Eke and his wife Hannah Nobbs. Could this be youyr relative?

This Elizabeth had a brother baptised in 1804 called William (IGI). I believe he grew up to marry my relative Sarah Hill (marriage not yet located) and have 8 known children with her (various sources: IGI, census). William was buried in Wood Dalling in 1862; Sarah in 1874 (she had been living with her brother John Hill in her last widowed years).

(Until the wedding of Sarah Hill and William Eke is located, I cannot discount that Sarah may have been a widow when she married him: her first husband may have been Thomas Betts who married a Sarah Hill in Wood Dalling in 1821 - if anybody has access to WD marriages, could they check for Sarah Hill & Will Eke or Sarah Betts widow & William Eke?).

Of William & Sarah's 8 issue:
1) Elizabeth born 1828 WD, 1841 census then no further trace
2) Joseph born 1831 WD, married Lydia Lambert in 1856 - an ag lab in Saxthorpe in 1881
3) Martha Ann born 1834 WD, had daughter Charlotte in 1857, child died; no further trace
4) John born 1838 WD, married Susan Brett in 1862 and moved to Stody, an ag lab
5) Francis born 1841 WD, married Charlotte Girling in 1863, moved to Yorkshire, in the police, died 1900
6) William born 1844 WD, married my relative Caroline Jarvis in 1865, had 7 children, an ag lab in WD
7) Richard born 1847 WD, married Sarah Girling ion 1867 in Co Durham where he was a coal miner, had 8 chidlren, moved to Yorkshire, where he was in the police
8) Robert born 1849 WD, died in 1866 from a fever

Karrie Cutlets:
IMike Ainscough's site (www.mjra.net) appears to be well researched and documents original sources sometimes (last update 2007?). His Lancashire ancestors were neighbours of my ancestors (who lived in the parish of Deane, Bolton) and we seem to be connected through the Eke family of Norfolk.

Your friend's ancestor, William Eke (born 1826) was the son of Jonas Eke (born 1804 in Corpusty) and his wife, Caroline (have you found a wedding?). I am sure you can trace the line, but an interesting addition which could be missed is that the Jonas Margerson listed as living with Jonas and Martha Eke (and their 3 children William, Jonas and Newton - whose mother was Martha) is the illegitimate son of Jonas Eke by Dorothy Margerson. So, older Jonas had two sons in the same year by different women, and they both lived with him in 1841!

Dorothy Margerson was the daughter of John Margerson and his second wife Susanna Bartram - he was born in Heydon and she was born in Corpusty. I have no trace of Dorothy after the birth of Jonas in 1826...although a Dorothy Margerson married a George Gooch in Norwich St Peter Mountergate in 1830 (IGI) so this could be her.

Anyway - hope that's given something of interest to each of you. Please get in touch if you want to.

Rob