William Toke

Children of Ralph Toke d 1451:

iv. William Toke, the plaintiff of 1459-1466, when he was aged 23; m. Alice; d. c. 1471.

Child of William Toke:

1. Alice3 Toke; under age in 1471; said to have married (1) Thomas Roper of Brenley in the parish of Boughton-under-Bleane, the son of her father's feoffee; surely m. (2) by 1498/9 William Ashburnham. William Ashburnham and Alice, his wife, daughter and heir of William Tooke of Wingham, sued John Isaak, feoffee to uses, for lands and tenements at Wye and elsewhere, between 1485 and 1529.

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From page 63 of The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, C. 1549-1613: Wife of Thomas Appleton of Little ... By Walter Goodwin Davis

After the death of Elizabeth Doyley her son William Toke sued Thomas Doyley as his father's executor and John Isak, John Oxenden and Thomas Toke, as his father's feoffees, for two tenements called Beltyng and Cosmersblene which he alleged were, according to his father's will, to have come to him at the end of his mother's life-estate. The pleadings in this case, which was entered between 1459 and 1466, disclose further facts about Ralph Toke's family and possessions. He had lands in the parishes of Westbere, Godmersdam, Cosmerysblene, St. Margaretsteye, Westclyff, Guston, Ewell and Bokland, called Russhebone, Lymburg, Estbere, Southbere, and Beltyng, with other tenements in Dover, whereof he had enfeoffed John Toke "now dede," Thomas Doyle, John Isak, John Oxenden and Thomas Toke. John Toke "brother of your besecher" died without issue. It is possible that Ralph Toke left four sons, for the feoffees state that "syth the death of the said Elizabeth [Ralph's widow] & John Toke (they have) been redy to deliver estate of the third part of the said lands to the said William Toke as one of the three brethren and heirs to the said Rauf after the custom of Gavelkynde," while William Toke describes himself as "one of the three brederyn and heirs of the said John Toke."* ....
William Toke, of Wyngham, gentleman, made his will Sept. 4, 1471. He directs that he be buried in the collegiate church of Wyngham. To his wife Alice he leaves all of his movable goods to pay debts and dispose for the good of his soul, and names her and John Ysaac, gentleman, executors. His feofees, John Ysaac and John Roper, gentleman, shall permit his wife Alice to occupy and take the profits of all his manors and lands until Alice his daughter shall come of full age, and enjoy the same for the term of her life, that is to say the manor called Cosmersblene and tenements called Ryshbourn and Biltyng in which John Digges, esquire, William Bertone, Thomas Wood and Thomas Boy are enfeoffed for the life of the said Alice as in a certain charter more fully appears. The said Alice shall enjoy all the said manors and lands except the manor of Swynfilde alias Hall, which Alice, his wife, may sell, if she wishes, to pay his debts. If Alice, his daughter, die before attaining full age, Alice, his wife, shall have the said manors.

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• The Visitation of Kent: Taken in the Years 1619-1623 By John Philipot, William Camden page 153 names him Robertus corrected to Radolphus, 2nd son, no wife listed; children (left to right) Rodolphus s.p., Wiliamus no wife but issue; Walterus; Joanna married Johannis Isaake de Bridge
• The visitations of Hertfordshire, made by Robert Cooke, esq.,Clarencieux, in 1572, and Sir Richard St. George, kt., Clarencieux, in 1634 with Hertfordshire pedigrees from Harleian mss. 6147 and 1546. Ed. by Walter C. Metcalfe by Cooke, Robert, d. 1592; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles) ed; College of Arms (Great Britain) Publication date 1886 page 166 names him Rafe, wife Jane Hawte, children 1. William 2. Walter 3. Jane
• http://genealogy.heritage-files.com/getperson.php?personID=P-180886...
  • Garrett-Sharpe-Brown-Pointdexter and Allied Lines... A Genealogical Study With Biographical Notes, Anne Sharpe Garrett Holmann, (Privately Published by The American Historical Company, Inc., 1971).
• http://www.tookefamily.org/tooke072603fg/f249.htm#f62