Peke, Richard

Notes:

Probably husband of Joan Pyke. The Blackawton Manor Court Rolls show that in 1517 he occupied a tenement at Abbotsleigh belonging to William Erlyans. In 1517/18 the lease of this tenement was formally granted to him by the court with reversion. In May 1535 Richard Peke acted as a juror in the manorial court, and he may also have been the Richard Peke involved in a debt case in February 1540. He may, however, have died in the late 1530s at the time of the dissolution of Torre Abbey. He was certainly dead by 1543/44, when his presumed wife Joan died,she being then described as a widow. Richard Peke paid lay subsidy for goods in Halwell in1524 and 1525.

Family/Spouse: Pyke, Joan. Joan died in C 1543/44. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Second of three lives at Abbotsleigh, having obtained the reversion to the farm on 23 March 1543/44 on his mother Joan Pyke's death. Plaintiff in a case before Blackawton Manor Court in 1564/65. Assessed in subsidy rolls for goods at Halwell in 1545/46. Died 19 September 1570 (Blackawton Manor Survey, 1585). His wife Alice Peke is mentioned in the Blackawton Manor Court Roll for October 1597 as the occupant of the tenement in Abbotsleigh, together with one furlong of land, for as long as she remained a widow. Her son John Peke who of the three lives, had held the reversion of the Abbotsleigh property since the death of his father in 1570, surrendered his rights in favour of his son Richard Peke. The court granted the tenancy to the latter or life as the rightful heir, provided that he allowed his grandmother Alice Peke to continue in occupation until her death, when the property would revert to him. Alice Peke died in 1614 and was buried at Halwell on 4 June 1614.

Family/Spouse: Alice. Alice died in 1614; was buried on 4 June 1614 in Halwell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Presumed brother of Richard (Pyke) Peke (c.1520-1570). He and his brother William are mentioned in the Halwell Subsidy roll 1524/25 for goods, while a William Peke is shown in 1523/24 as assessed for land in Ashprington. John Peke is mentioned in the Blackawton Manor Court Roll for 1544 and may have been the John Peek of Halwell whose will was proved at Exeter in 1577. Both were probably married and had descendants, although no details are known.

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Presumed brother of Richard (Pyke) Peke (c.1520-1570). He and his brother, John are mentioned in the Halwell Subsidy roll 1524/25 for goods, while a William Peke is shown in 1523/24 as assessed for land in Ashprington. John Peke is mentioned in the Blackawton Manor Court Roll for 1544 and may have been the John Peek of Halwell whose will was proved at Exeter in 1577. Both were probably married and had descendants, although no details are known.

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Several references to him in the Blackawton Manor Court Rolls. In 1573/4 and again in 1578/9 and 1593 there are mentions of "Richard Peike's land", while in 1592/93 he and his nephew Richard Peke (1572-1625) both appeared before the manorial court and swore allegiance to the Queen.
Richard Peke senior was probably free tenant of Shapley (Shepleigh) (Blackawton Manor Survey, 1585). Shepleigh adjoins Abbotsleigh on the east side. Richard Peke was buried at Halwell 12 March 1593/94.
In 1569 his name appeared on the muster roll of fit and able men of Halwell as "Richard Pecke, pikeman", along with John Wadland, pikeman, and Richard Tucker, one of several harquebusiers.
There is no evidence that this Richard Peke ever married, but a Robert Peke (Peike), son of a Richard Peke and baptised at Blackawton on 27 October 1566, may have been his son.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Third of three lives at Abbotsleigh, having been granted the reversion to the property on 19 September 1570 on the death of his father Richard (Blackawton Manor Survey, 1585).
John Peke married his first wife nâee Alis Sparke at Blackawton, and after her death in 1580 he married Joan Langworthie at Blackawton. She died in childbirth ("in sonne") in 1587 shortly after her daughter Joan.
In October 1597 John Peke appeared before Blackawton Manor Court and surrendered his reversion to the Abbotsleigh farm and land, which had been occupied by his mother Alice Peke since the death of her husband, in favour of his elder son Richard Peke (1572-1625), who was admitted as tenant.
John Peke died in either 1595 or, more probably, 1615 at Halwell, where the burial of a John Peke is recorded on 17 November.

John married Sparke, Alis on 27 Jan 1571/72 in Blackawton,. Alis (daughter of Sparke, Thomas) was born in 1552; died in 1580; was buried on 4 Oct 1580 in Blackawton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Langworthie, Joan on 11 Nov 1582. Joan died in 1587. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 22 Feb 1550/51, Blackawton

Joan married Tucker, William on 22 Sep 1574 in Blackawton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1566, Blackawton

Notes:

Baptised Blackawton 27 October 1566, son of a Richard Peke who may possibly have been the Richard Peke (Peike) (c.1543-1593/94) , although there is no evidence that the latter ever married.
Robert Peke is mentioned in the Blackawton Manor Court Roll for October 1597 as having stood pledge for his presumed cousin Richard Peke when the latter took his inheritance of the tenancy of the Abbotsleigh property from his father John. In the subsidy rolls Robert Peke is assessed for goods at Halwell in 1599/1600 and for a substantial amount of land at Blackawton in both 1609/10 and 1627/28. In the last-mentioned entry he is described as 'dead'; he was buried at Blackawton in 1627. His marriage to Willmot Collins had taken place there on 11 July 1584. There are also two other mentions of Robert Peke in the Court Roll for 1608/09.

Robert married Collins, Willmot on 11 Jul 1584 in Blackawton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1592/93 he and his uncle, Richard Peke (c1543-1593/94) both appeared before the manorial court and swore allegiance to the Queen.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 8 Jan 1573/74, Blackawton

Other Events:

• Baptism: 21 Jun 1579, Blackawton