Thomas Fouke

Do not confuse with Thomas Foulke

Profile with sources at "Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy" website. Of Codnor, Derbyshire, when he married Dorothy Cham at St. Laurance, Heanor, Derbyshire, on Oct. 30, 1616 (Find My Past UK database). A Thomas Fowke is listed as a substitute churchwarden of St. Lawrence (Anglican church) at Heanor, representing Codnor, in 1613. He may be the same Thomas Fouke, listed in the Heanor parish register, as being the husband of an Anna Fouke buried on Aug. 8, 1616, at the Church of St. Lawrence there. If this is true, then he had a first wife before marrying Dorothy Cham . A couple of researchers from California, using family notes with no primary sources listed, have him being born in 1571, and being the "Tomas Ffolk" of Cardigan, in South Wales, living there in 1591. This Tomas (Thomas) Ffolk has a separate profile on Geni, until more verification can be obtained. If Thomas Fouke of Codnor and Tomas Ffolk of Cardigan are indeed the same person, this would make him a descendant of Richard Ffolk, the First Mayor of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, in the reign of Henry VII. There has been a Folk family in South Wales, possibly of Norman origin, since at least 1300. The projected 1571 birth year, if validated, would support the idea of his having had a first wife Anna, and marrying Dorothy Cham as a widower.