James Feake

"The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America", Contributed by George E. McCracken, Ph.D., Drake University, Des Moines 11, Iowa. Midway across the north coast of Norfolk lies the “Hundred of North Greenhoe” and in it, about three miles south of the sea, the parish, sometime manor, of Wighton in which the FEAKE family, as early as 1435, is found numerously settled. That this family reached prominence only after certain of its sons migrated to London in the sixteenth century and there became prosperous goldsmiths is evident from the complete absence of the surname from the Visitations of Norfolk in 1563, 1589 and 1613.