1.. William Barker, of Hopton Castle, Salop., m. Elizabeth, sister of William Tittely, of Salop.
1.1. John Barker, d. 1607, m. Edith, da. of John Blanchard.
1.1.1. John Barker was also recorded as John Baker. In Cal. State Papers, Charles I., p. 291, he is recorded as owning “the Mary Rose of Bristol” in partnership with John Taylor and William Pitt, Jan. 2, 1627; the same for June 2, 1626. On Nov. 22, 1627, he is recorded as the owner of the Mary Rose as Baker query Barker. Earler ships manifests record him as Barker or Baker.
1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Barker, m. John Goninge, business partner of Francis Derrick Sr.
1.2. Richard Barker, d. 1614, m. Sarah, b. ca. 1570. Her Will, proved Aug. 25, 1637, shows her owning properties in Redcliffe Street, and the playhouse in Wine Street, which she bequeathed to her son, William. (Mark Cartwright Pilkinton, Rec. of Early Eng. Drama, Bristol, p. 40, 1997).
1.2.1. William Barker, bapt. on May 7, 1592, in St. Werburgh’s, Bristol; merchant and mariner, who deposed his age to be 37 in 1629. William Barker was also a partner of Francis Derrick: April 13, 1639: ‘Bond of Francis Derrick (the younger), of Bristol, and William Barker, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, to the King, in 1,000l. conditioned for the appearance of Derrick (Jr.) before the Council, to answer an accusation of piracy pretended to have been committed by him upon a Spanish ship in a voyage to Virginia, about 11th October 1636’.

Francis Derrick Jr. (whose family hailed from Somerset) was associated with Sergeant John Harris, who was probably he bapt. 1589/90, in Blagdon, Somerset, cousin of Thurston Harris, whose son, William, m. a sister of Francis Derrick Jr., b. 1607 (son of Francis Derrick Sr. of Long Ashton), cousin of James Derrick, who m. a stepdau. of Joan Harris, sister of the said John Harris. Dorothy Harris, the Sergeant’s dau., sold land to Francis Derrick Jr., p. 668, inherited from George Cockett (her probable uncle), a reasonably common name around Blagdon, and, in the Bristol basin patois of the time, similar to Caucot, etc.

Francis Derrick Sr., of Long Ashton (d. 1637), gifted bread to the poor of St. Stephen’s, in Bristol, in 1632. The same year he granted to Humphrey Hooke, and other parishioners of St Stephen’s, a yearly rent of 52s out of his tenement there. Francis Derrick Sr. was part owner in 1629 (with John Goninge and Humphrey Hooke), of the ships ‘The Hope’, ‘The Little Charles’, and ‘The Fortune’. John Goninge’s wife was Elizabeth, was a dau. of John Barker, of Bristol, merchant.

Sir John Banks (Attorney-General), v. Humphrey Hooke, Walter Ellis, John Gonning, junior, Fras. Derrick, Thos. Cole, John Tayler … Ships which sailed with “letters of marque or mart” from the port of Bristol between1625 and 1632 during the war between England against France and Spain. Custom imposts, &c., due on those ships. Disposal of prizes taken by them. Brazil tobacco taken in prize, &c., &c.: Bristol; France; Spain. 1638. (E 134/13Chas1/East320).

ROBERT HOOKE OF THE BRISTOL BASIN FRATERNITY

On Apr. 28, 1711, Robert Hooke patented 80 ac. in the upper parish of Nansemond, S.W. of Summerton Creek, on the corner of John Duke. (B.3, p. 119).

In 1718, Robert Hooke deeded his brother John Hooke, during his life and after his decease to his son John Hooke, land he had purchased from Thomas Altman, lying on the Cyprus swamp near the mouth of Summerton Creek, adjacent to that of William Smelley and Jacob Darden.*
Robert Hooke m. Mary Boseman, dau. of Anthony Branch, business partner of Edward Bland, br. of Theoderick Sr.. She m. 1. Ralph Boseman, Sr., 2. Stephen Powell, 3. Robert Hooke, 4. Thomas Price.

By Ralph Boseman, Mary had issue: Mary Boseman, wife of Henry Allen of IOW, whose estate appraisal was presented by Thomas Bullock, her 2nd husband; the probable son of William Bullock, a fellow transportee of in 1664 with Ambrose Boseman, father of Ralph, who, in 1673, bought 300 ac. in 10W Co., at the head of Queen’s Creek, a branch of the Western branch of the Nansemond River, from William & Ellenor Smelley.

*Jacob Darden, m. Ann, dau. of Nicholas Hill and Sylvestra Bennett. Their son, Stephen Darden, witnessed a grant of land by Hodges Counsell (grandson of Hodges Counsell), to William Edmondson. Rec. Sept. 28, 1724. Hodges Counsell the elder witnessed the Will of Daniel Boucher (of Bristol), rec. May 1, 1668. which named his “friends” John Hardy and Thomas Taberer as overseers. John Hardy was the likely father of (1) Debora Hardy, wife of Bridgeman Joyner (guardian of a son of Thomas Harris, d.1688); (2) Lucy Hardy, wife of Hodges Counsell.

On April 26, 1698, John Williams was granted 46 ac. in the Lower Parish, in IOW Co., on Black Water, adj. to Ambrose Boseman. George Keeling was the br.-in-law of John Williams, thus, uncle of Ann, wife of William Rasberry, Mary, wife of Henry Graves, parents of Mary, wife of John Christmas. George Keeling was the husband of Agnes Bullock, whose family were highly likely kin of Thomas Bullock, aforesaid.

1. Peter Ridley. 1.1. Nathaniel Ridley, m. Elizabeth Day, dau. of James Day and Mary Bland, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Bennett) Bland. 1.1.1. Nathaniel Ridley Jr., witnessed the Will of Edward Harris Jr., grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. 1.1.2. James Ridley, d. 1781, m. Jane Smith, dau. of Arthur Smith and Mary, dau. of John Bromfield and Olive, dau. of John Hardy, relict of Giles Driver, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.1.2.1. Bromfield Ridley, m. Frances Keeling, dau. of George Keeling and Agnes Bullock, and sister of John Keeling. (Zae Hargett Gwynn (Abstracts of the Wills and Estate Records of Granville Co. NC, 1746-1808). 1.2. William Ridley. Mr. Charles Barham Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672) and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Charles Barham’s sister m. Richard Bennett, d. 1709 (kinsman of Thomas Harris, d. 1672).
John Williams m. (in 1696) Elizabeth Taberer, dau. of Thomas Taberer, by his first wife (B. 1, p. 223), sister of Ruth Taberer, wife of John Newman, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Thomas Taberer m. (2) Ann Bennett, kin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

DERRICK cont.
Francis Derrick’s son and namesake was mentioned as being in Virginia in 1639 (Passenger and Immigration List), and as dying there in 1640. His estate inventory describes him as a merchant venturer ‘who dyed beyound the Seas’ (Bristol Record Office; appraised May 7, 1640).
Sergeant John Harris may have been the father John Harris, who, on May 2, 1654, witnessed a bond of Robert Mosley to John Felton (V.C.R, v. xi, p. 31), concerning lands “joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes lyeing in the County of Surry in Virginia commonly called Upper Chippoakes”. Sergeant John Harris. John Harris, the son, an infant in 1624, probably m. a sister of John Barker (son of William Barker, business partner of Francis Derrick Sr., as noted), who was the admin. of the estate of Elizabeth Harris, relict of William Harris. R. June 16, 1711.
On June 4, 1677, Thomas Drew apparently m. (as her third husband) Frances Ward, relict of (1) *William Barker, mariner, (2) Robert Letherland. Frances Drew petitioned the Court and received custody of her two grandchildren, John and Elizabeth Limbry, the surviving children of her deceased dau., Elizabeth.

BARKER cont.
1.2.1.1. John Barker, settled on Chippokes Creek in 1649. Richard Taylor was the br.-in-law of John Barker Sr., having married his sister, Sara, Oct. 27, 1646, in Rappahannock.
1.2.1.2. Sarah Barker, m. Richard Taylor.
1.2.1.2.1. Frances Taylor, m. Richard Bradford, bapt. Nov. 23, 1634, in Easton in Gordano, d. after July 14, 1716, in Westover Parish, Charles City. “‘Whereas by and after the decease of John Barker late of Flowerdue Hundred in Charles City Coun. in Virginia deceased, all that tract commonly called Flowerdue Hundred containing 1,000 acres did lawfully descend and come to Sarah then the wife of Richard Taylor, deceased, and now the wife of Robert Lucy and Elizabeth, wife of Philip Limbry — sisters and co-heirs with the said John Barker”.
1.2.1.3. Elizabeth Barker, m. Philip Limbry Jr.
1.2.1.4. … m. John Harris

TAYLORS OF VIRGINIA

1. John Taylor, was “disabled” as a Bristol member of the Long Parliament a royalist in 1644 (and died shortly after), being replaced by Richard Aldworth.

In the year 1643, the city was taken by the royal forces, and his Majesty visited Bristol; when a committee of the Corporation was appointed to raise £20,000, by assessment on the inhabitants, as a present to him and Prince Rupert. In order to meet the general wants of the Corporation, Mr. Alderman Hooke, Mr. Elbridge, Mr. Alderman Charlton, and Mr. Alderman Taylor, were about the same time appointed to unite with the surveyors of city lands, (of whom Mr. Alderman Long was one, in raising money by granting of estates, and getting in such debts as were due and owing to the Chamber; and this committee appears, amongst sales made by them of city lands, to have effected ‘three sales in fee farm of lands, part of the manor of Congresbury, viz.-one tenement, ‘one cottage, and 59 acres and half a perch to Mr. Alderman Long. The second of these sales was to Mr. Alderman Taylor, and comprised one messuage, two tenements, and 8 acres ; whereof 7 acres were sold in reversion of one life. (Joshua Jones. Further Report on the Accounts of the Corporation of Bristol, p. 84, 1840).

John Taylor, ca. 1585-1645, son of John Taylor, of Lichfield, Staffs.* Burgess in 1609, later sheriff of Bristol.Treasurer of the Merchant Venturers, part owner of several ships (Mary Rose, with John Barker and John Long, involved in trade with New England. He m. Mary, dau. of Alderman Henry Yate. she bapt. Feb. 2, 1599. (Willson Havelock Coates, Anne Steele, eds. The Private Journals of the Long Parliament: 2 June to 17 September 1642, p. 452, 1982). *John Taylor, of Lichfield, m. Julianne Nichols, on Sept. 29, 1575; their son, John, was bapt. on June 24, 1584, in Lichfield.

Abel Kitchen, John Dowle, Humphrey Browne, Richard Holworthy, John Taylor, Giles Elbridge, Robt. Kitchen, John Rowberrow. v. William Wyatt: “Prisage wines” within the port of Bristol, composition made by merchants of London for wines brought into the port. Touching wines brought into Bristol by John Fowke, of London.: Bristol. 1630-1631. (E 134/6Chas1/Mich15).

1.1. Richard Taylor, b. ca. 1615, m. John Barker’s sister. She m. (2) Robert Lucy, and had issue: Mary Lucy, who m. Thomas Anderson. April Court 1673, “Whereas Robert Lucy and Sarah his wife and Phillip Limbrey and Elizabeth his wife jointly own 1000 acres in Flower du hundred, inherited from John Barker Dec’d., brother to sd Sarah and Elizabeth, desire partition. Request that Col. Robt Wynne for the Lucys and Lt. Col Geo Jordan for the Limbreys meet James Minge surveyor on the 22nd instant and divide the land”. (Fleet, p. 347).
1.1.1. Capt. John Taylor, of Flowerdew Hundred, was the guardian for Mary Lucy, the mother of Jane Anderson, in 1694.
1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Taylor, m. Henry Duke. Thomas Hampton assigned part of his patent on Tiaskun Swamp, bordering the land of Henry Duke, to his dau., Mary, relict of Thomas Duke, on Nov. 30, 1670 (B. 7, p. 174). Mary Hampton was the sister of John Hampton, who bought the “Cary Tract”, adjoining his father’s plantation, from Richard Cary, on March 3, 1677. On May 7, 1725, Elizabeth Duke sold land on the north side of Blackwater Swamp, bounded by William Harris, to Robert Hall.
1.2. Capt. Thomas Taylor; d. June 10, 1657 at Warwick Co., VA, at age 44.
1.2.1. Ann Taylor, m. Col. Miles Cary, bap. Jan. 30, 1623 at All Saints, Bristol.

CARY

1. William Cary, Mayor of Bristol, bapt. Oct. 3, 1550, at St. Nicholas, Bristol, m. Elizabeth Goodale, Jan. 14, 1572.
1.1. John Cary, Mayor of Bristol, bapt. April 10, 1583, m. istly, Elizabeth Hereford, on May 29, 1609.
1.1.1. Thomas Cary, bapt. Dec. 27, 1613, m. Susanna, dau. of Philip Limbry, and sister of Philip Limbry Jr. Thus, Miles Cary’s cousin, Thomas, was a br.-in-law of Philip Limbry Jr., husband of a sister of John Barker, another sister, Sarah, being the wife of Richard Taylor.
1.2. John Cary, m. 2ndly, Alice, dau. of Henry Hobson and Alice Dans, circa 1617/18.
Hobson v Hobson. Plaintiffs: William Hobson. Defendants: Hester Hobson, John Hollister, Susan Hollister his wife, Thomas Jackson, Margaret Clarke, widow, Miles Cary, Nicholas Burson and Mary Burson his wife. Subject: personal estate of Henry Hobson, Bristol, Gloucestershire. 1664. (C 8/222/15).
1.2.1. Col. Miles Cary, bap. Jan. 30, 1623, at All Saints, Brisol, m. Anne, dau. of Capt. Thomas Taylor; d. June 10, 1657, at Warwick Co., VA, at age 44; of wounds received in the attack of the Dutch fleet on Old Point Comfort. “His relation to Miles Cary suggests that he may have been of the family of John Taylor, alderman of Bristol, who is mentioned in relation to the Bristol Carys in the 1652 will of the Bristol clergyman, Robert Perry”. (P.C.C. Bowyer, 243. See Va Mag, xi, 364).
1.2.1.1. Lt. Col. William Cary, b. ca. 1657; m. Martha, dau. of Lt. Col. John Scarsbrook.
1.2.2. Richard Cary; bapt. July 29, 1621 at All Saint’s, Bristol, sold his tract of land to John Hampton, br. of Mary Hampton, relict of Thomas Duke, which bordered the lands of Henry Duke.

ANOTHER FLOCK OF VIRGINIA DUCKS

I suggest that accounts of a family of Duck in Virginia are amalgamations of various families named Duck/Ducke, The ‘flock’ as follow came from Gillingham, Kent, adj. Chatham, a Medway port; and, if the usual assumption of the Joyners being of Dorset are wide of the mark , certain family associations (to Galle, etc.) suggest that they may have been a distinct breed of Ducks in Virginia. Their names were given variously as Duck or Ducke in the registers, which is standardised to Ducke, as follows:

1. … 1.1. Robert Duck, bapt. Edith Collett, Jan, 17, 1592. 1.1.1. Edmond Ducke, bapt. Feb. 9, 1595. 1.1.2. John Duck, m. Francis Joyner, Aug. 2, 1621, probably close relative of Thomas Joyner (who m. Maryan Adams,1612, probable close relative of John Adams, who m. Margery Williamson, Dec. 3, 1623. John Duck m. (2) Lucy Bently, April 12, 1630.

March 1, 1720, Sameul Merriot 640 ac. in Chowan Precinct joining John Pipkin, the sd. Merriot, ye Beaver Dam Branch, John Duke, John Drury, and Jos. Ballard. William Bently, 640 acs in Chowan Precinct, joining William Barefield, Samuel Merriot, Sector Swamp Branch, and Richard Barefield, same date. (Hoffman, 8, 277).

William Bentley was a grandson of Richard Bentley and his 2nd wife (m. July 3, 1677), Lydia Mann, who was probably a sister of William Mann, who, on Feb. 20, 1725, deeded to John Bartlett 120 ac. in Perquimans Precinct that had been granted him for importing three persons into the colony, on May 1, 1694 (Winslow, op. cit., p. 88). William Mann was the br. of Thomas Mann Jr.; both were brs. of Elizabeth Mann, wife of Thomas Joyner, br. of Bridgeman Joyner. On Sept. 13, 1693 Thomas Mann Jr., planter, of IOW, deeded to Sarah Mann, the wife of Francis Davis, 100 ac. on Corowack Swamp along the line of Charles Mann. Wit. Wm. Duck and Margaret Duck.

1. … 1.1. Thomas Bennett. 1.1.1. Richard Bennett. PROB 11/351/440. Will of Richard Bennett of Nansemond River, Virginia. Aug. 3, 1676. 1.1.1.1. Anne Bennett, b. 1641, m. 1st, Theodorick Bland of Westover, 2nd, Colonel St. Leger Codd of Northumberland Co.. 1.1.1.1.1. Theodorick Bland (born 1663); m. Margaret Mann. She was probably the dau. of Thomas Mann Sr., who, with his wife, Elizabeth, sold 150 ac. on Blackwater to Theophilus Joyner, br. of Thomas Joyner. This was part of a 300 ac. grant to Thomas Mann, dated Sept. 22, 1682, adj. Bridgeman Joyner. (Boddie, p. 594).

1.2. Elianor Bennett. m. Richard Harris, Oct. 6, 1594, in Wivelscombe, Somerset. 1.2.1. Thomas Harris, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. 1.2.1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.1.3. Thomas Ducke, bapt. Aug, 29, 1602, m. (1) Elizabeth Lorrimer, May 19, 1636. (2) ? Mary, dau. of Thomas Hampton. Re. a patent of April 20, 1682, to Mrs. Mary Wade, widow of Thomas Duke, for lands assigned by Thomas Hampton. The patent was for 463 ac. on a branch of Tiaskun Swamp, with boundaries on Tiaskun Swamp, down Warreny Run, Preston’s Spring Branch, and the land of Capt. Henry Duke, formerly patented to Mr. Thomas Hampton, who sold 100 ac. to Preston and assigned the remainder to Mary Wade, Nov. 30, 1670. (B. 7, p.174). 1.1.3.1. Capt. Henry Duke?, by either wife, m. Mary Hampton.

1.2 David Duck, m. Mary Short, Dec. 3, 1599. 1.2.1. William Duck, bapt. Dec. 29, 1603, m. Sussanah. 1.2.1.1. William Ducke. 1.2.1.1.1. Henry Duck Jr., bapt. Dec. 16, 1654. 1.2.2. Thomas Duck, bapt. July 14, 1605. 1.2.3. Mathew Ducke. 1.2.3.1 George Ducke, bapt. Nov. 7, 1630.

1.3. William Duck, m. Ann Galle, Oct. 28, 1601. March 1, 1668: Stephen Durden, in Nansemond Co., 250 ac. adj. the land of sd. Durden, Robert Hooke, Israel Johnson, Thomas Powell, and Thomas Galle. (B. 6, p. 208). 1.3.1. Robert Duck, bapt. Dec. 14, 1606. 1.3.2. Henry Ducke, bapt. Nov. 10, 1616. 1.3.3. Mary Ducke, m. William Hall, Henry Duke Sr. (of Virginia): An indenture of May 7, 1725 between his relict, Elizabeth, of Martin Brandon Parish, Prince George Co., sold to Robert Hall half a tract of land on the N. side of Blackwater Swamp, beginning at the corner between William Harris and the sd Elizabeth Duke; witnessed by Richard Kennon, Elizabeth Mallory, Wm. Short (probable father-in-law of William Harris). Henry Duke Jr., son of aform., Henry Duke. June 16, 1727, grant, of land to Robert Harris, 100 ac. “beginning at a corner Gum upon the New Found River belonging to Henry Duke, thence along the said Duke’s line … to a corner Hickory on New Found River. (B. 13, p. 149).

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