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HUGH FOULKE
Chapter XV
HUGH FOULKE’S ANCESTORS
With Data from Several Bibles,
Beginning on Page 120 |
Submitted by: David Wallace Tourison, of Sheridan Wyoming - many thanks |
The following is a retype from EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS, with Some
Accounts of Their Descendants, by Clarence V(Vernon) Roberts, assisted by
Warren S. Ely, Originally published Philadelphia, 1925, Reprinted Genealogical
Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore MD 1975. Comments in ( ) are note
inclusions from the publisher/writer; Comments in [ ] are from me personally:
FOULKE -
While Hugh Foulke was the first settler of that family to locate
in “Upper Bucks,” still it is desirable to give a short sketch of his
ancestors, including his parents who came from Wales, in 1698, and settled at
Gwynedd, about twenty miles south of Richland, or the “Great Swamp,” as it was
called at that time.
A Brief Genealogy of Edward Foulke*
With an Account of his Family and their Removal from Great Brittain to
Pennsylvania, written by himself originally in British (or Welsh), and
translated in 1810 by Samuel Foulke, his grandson, who was born and died in
Richland Township, Bucks County, Pa.
* There are slight differences in this genealogy as published from time to
time; that given here is from one of the original copies made by Samuel Foulke,
in 1810, and now is in the possession of the compiler of this work.
“I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke Thomas, the son of Evan, son
of Thomas, son of Robert, son of David Lloyd, son of David, son of Evan-
Vaughan, son of Griffith, son of Mthaddock, son of Jerworth, son of Madock, son
of Ririd Blaidd (Rhirid Flaidd) of the Pool, who was Lord of Penllyn, one of
the Northern divisions of Wales. My mother’s name was Lowry, the daughter of
Edward, son of David, son of Ellis, son of Robert of the Parish of Llanvor in
Merionethshire.
“I was born on the 13th day of 5th Month, Anno Domini 1651, and when
arrived to mature age I married Eleanor, the daughter of Hugh, the son of
Cadwalder, son of Rees of the Parish of Spytn in Denbigh-shire. Her mother’s
name was Gwen, the daughter of Ellis, the son of William, son of Hugh, son of
Thomas, son of David, son of Maddock, son of Evan, son of Cott, son of Evan,
son of Griffith, son of Madock, son of Enion, son of Meredith of Canvadock (Cai-
Fadog) and she was born in the same parish and shire with her husband.
“I had by my said wife nine children (to wit) four sons and five
daughters, whos names are as follows: viz: Thomas, Hugh, Cadwalader and Evan, –
Gwen, Grace, Jane, Catharine and Margaret. We lived at a place called
Coedyfoel, a farm belonging to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhewlas, in Merionethshire
aforesaid. But in process of time I had an inclination to remove thence with
my family to the Province of Pennsylvania, and in order thereto we set out on
the 3rd day of the Second Month (April) 1698, and came in two days to
Liverpool, where with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took
shipping the 17th day of the same month on Board the Robert and Elizabeth and
the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and stayed until the first
of Third Month (May) and then sailed again for Pennsylvania. We were about
eleven weeks at sea and the sore distempter of the Blood Flux broke out on the
vessel, of which died forty-five persons in our passage. The distemper was so
mortal that two or three Corps were cast overboard every day while it
continued. But through the favor of Divine Province, I, with my wife and nine
children escaped that sore mortality and arrived safe at Philadelphia about the
17th of 5th Month (July) where we [page 121] were kindly received and
entertained by our friends and old acquaintenances until I purchased a tract of
about 700 Acres of Land about 16 miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I
settled, and divers others of our company who came over sea together settled
near me about the same time, which was the beginning of November, 1798,
aforesaid, and the township was name Gwynedd or North Wales.”
This account was written the 14th of the 11th Month (January) 1702, in
British (or Welsh) by Edward Foulke and translated (in 1810) by Samuel Foulke.
To which is added a short view of the Progress of American Population
in the Posterity of Edward Foulke:
Thomas Foulke, the eldest son (of Edward Foulke, the first) married
Gwen, the daughter of David Evans of Radnor. (For a continuation of this line
see page 234, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by Howard M. Jenkins).
Hugh Foulke, the second son of Edward Foulke (the first) married Ann
Williams, October, 1713, and had eleven children, viz: Mary, Martha, Samuel,
Ellenor, John, Thomas, Theophilus, William, Edward, Ann and Jane, who all,
except Edward, lived to marry and raise families and whose posterity are now
become too numerous to trace individually. At the space of seventy years after
their marriage their offspring born amounted to 343 and since that time, as
near as can be estimated, the number is increased to 500 at the present date
(1810) of which number 115 were born of the name of Foulke. (For a
continuation of the line see Foulke Family, Chapter XVI, and page
235, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd”; also page 142, “Old Richland
Families,” by Ellwood Roberts).
Cadwalader Foulke, the third son of Edward Foulke (the first) married
Mary, the daughter of ----------- by whom he had twelve children. (For a
continuation of this line see page 237, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by
Howard M. Jenkins).
Evan Foulke, the fourth son of Edward Foulke (the first) married (1st)
Ellen, the daughter of Edward Roberts, (2d) Ann Coulston, widow. (For a
continuation of this line see page 248, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by
Howard M. Jenkins).
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The eldest daughter of Edward Foulke (the first) named Gwen, married
Alexander Edwards, by whom she had five children, viz: Edward, Alexander,
Thomas, Joseph and Jane. (See page 233, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,”
by Howard M. Jenkins).
| The second daughter, named Grace, married John Griffith, of Chester
County, by whom she had four children, viz: Griffith, John, Evan and Susanna.
(See page 234, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by Howard M. Jenkins).
| The third daughter, Jane, married Ellis Hughes, of Exeter, Bucks
County, whose numerous and respectable descendants it is not possible at this
distance of time and place to trace through the several branches thereof. (See
page 234, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by Howard M. Jenkins).
| The fourth daughter, Catharine, married Theophilus Williams and left
four children, viz: John, Benjamin, Mary and Ellenor. (See page
234, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by Howard M. Jenkins).
| The fifth daughter, Margaret, married Nicholas Roberts, of Gwynedd, and
left three children, viz: Jane, Ellenor and Elizabeth.
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(See page
234, “Historical Collections of Gwynedd,” by Howard M. Jenkins) also a Mss.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John William by George Williams, in Collection
of Bucks County Historical Society at Doylestown, and of the Historical Society
of Montgomery County at Norristown.
[page 122]
Postscript
“Agreeable to the common method of computation (following 30 years to
each generation, and it is found not to err a single year as far back from the
present time as dates have been mentioned), that is for five generations, that
the birth of Meredith, the eldest progenitor in the foregoing genealogy, must
have happened about the year Anno Domini 1236, and in the reign of Henry III,
King of England, and 574 years prior to the present date, 1810. If we
calculate upon the European data for increase in population of each succeeding
generation doubling the former, there ought to be now existing in different
parts of the world 1,048,576 persons, the posterity of the above named Meredity
at the present time (1810). This may seem exaggeration, but it is most certain
that the increase of Edward Foulke’s posterity since his arrival in America has
been tenfold that ration.”
EDWARD FOULKE’S BIBLE
Ann M. Foulke of Quakertown, Pa. (No. 344 Foulke Family, Chapter XVI),
has in her possession the bible [Bible] that formerly belonged to Edward Foulke
of Gwynedd. This volume was shown at the Foulke Family Re-union held at
Gwynedd in July, 1898. The title page is as follows:
Imprinted at London
By the Deputies of Christopher Barker
Printer to the Queens most excellent Maiestie
1599
Cum Priu I Legio
Among the few memoranda of births, deaths, etc., appear the following:
William Greasley I S M Y N A M E
and with my P E n i r - g - t the same
(William Greasley is my name and with my pen I right the same)
{To make the
Sternhold and Hopkins had great alms {Heart full
When they translated David’s Psalms {glad
{It would
But had it been King Davids fate {have made
to i v e heard you sing and translate {him mad
Kezia Foulke’s Book
Presented by her affectionate mother 22nd of 8th Month, 1841
Formerly the property of my Grandfather Samuel Foulke who
inherited from his Grandfather Edward Foulke who left his
native country, Wales, 3rd day of 2nd Month 1698.
Stephen Foulke 1895
HUGH FOULKE’S BIBLE
This volume is now (1921) in possession of Susan H. Foulke (No. 294,
Foulke Family, Chapter XVI), daughter of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) Foulke, of
Quakertown, Pa. On the fly leaf appears the following: [page 123]
The new
Testament
of our
Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ
Newly Translated out of the
Original Greek
and with the former
Translations
Diligently compared and revised
By his Majesties Special Command
Appointed to be read in Churches
Oxford
Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University
MDCCXXIII
[followed by handwriting]
Hugh Foulke
His Book anno domi 1730
Hugh Foulke His Hand
The following dates of births, marriages and deaths are written
therein. Note the Old Style Calendar (March being the first month prior to
1752), and the single and double small ff’s used in spelling Foulke:
signature of Hugh Foulke was born the six day of the seventh month in
the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1685
signature of Ann Foulke my wife was born ye 6th day of the 11th mo., in the
year of our Lored 1693
signature of Mary Ffoulke daughter of Hugh Foulke and Ann his wife born
ye 24th of the 9th mo. 1714
signature of Martha ffoulke was born ye 2nd day of 5th month in the year of
our Lord Christ 1716
signature of Samuel Foulke our son was born othe 4th day of the 12th mo.
in the year 1718
[page 124]
Ellin Foulke was born the 19th day of the First month Anno Domi 1720
John Foulke was born the twenty first day of the 12th mon. in the year 1722
Thomas Foulke our son was born the 14th day of the 1st. mo. called March Anno.
1724
Theophilus Foulke was born the twenty first of the 12th mo: Anno Domi 1726
William Foulke was born the 10th of the twelfth month in the year J. Christ 1728
Edward Foulke was born the nineteenth day of the tenth month Anno Domi. 1729
Ann Foulke our daughter was born the first day of the first month in the year
1732
Jane Foulke our daughter was born the Third day of the first mo: in the year
1734
One Thousand seven hundred thirty four
(Page Two)
Children of Theophilus and Margaret (Thomas) Foulke
Theophilus Foulke was born on the twenty first day of twelfth month Anno.
Domini 1726
Margaret Foulke wife of Theophilus Foulke was born the third day of June Anno
Domini 1734
Hugh Foulke son of the above was born the twenty ninth day of August Anno.
Domin i 1758
Jane Foulke was born the Twenty Third day of August 1759
Theophilus Foulke our second son born August the Twenty sixth Anno Domini 1761
Benjamin Foulke born the Fourteenth day of February Anno Domini 1763
Sarah Foulke born December the 28th Anno. 1764
Benjamin Foulke born the 16th day of Aug. Anno – 1766
Benjamina Foulke our second daughter of that name was born the 19th day of
November Anno. 1768
Margaret Foulke born the first of January Anno 1771
Rachel Foulke and Charles Foulke were born Jan. 24 – 1773
Rachel Foulke the second of that name born Mar. 17, 1775
Charles Foulke the second of that name was born July 15th, 1777.
(Page Three)
Hugh Foulke died on the 21st day of May Anno 1760 aged seventy four years eight
month and fifteen days
Ann Foulke died on the tenth day of September Anno 1773 aged seventy nine years
eight month and four days
Theophilus Foulke died on the fourth day of November Anno: one Thousand and
Seven Hundred and eighty five aged Fifty nine years, eight month and thirteen
days
Margaret Foulke died on the thirtieth day of March Anno Dom: 1802, aged sixty
seven years nine month and nineteen days
Benjamin Foulke son of Theos & Margaret above named died February 28th 1821 at
Harrisburg while attending his duty in the Legislature as a Representative from
his native County aged 54 years 6 Mos and 12 days
Sarah Jenkins (Late Sarah Foulke) second daughter before Named died September
15th, 1828: of one of the most Lingering decays ever known; aged 63 years 8
Months and 17 days
(Page Four)
Benjamina Foulke our First Daughter of that name Died the ------- day of April
Anno 1765 aged two years and two months
Charles Foulke Died on the 16th day of March Anno: 1773
Rachel Foulke Died on the 20th day of the same month and aged near two Months
each.
Charles Foulke our second son of that name Died the 26th Day of March Anno 1781
aged three years, Eight Months and Eleven Days.
[page 125]
Benjamina Foulke our second Daughter by that name died on the Twenty Ninth Day
of April Anno One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Four aged Fifteen years
Five Months and ten days.
Theophilus Foulke the second son of Theophilus & Margaret Foulke, died the
Twenty eighth Day of July Dom: One Thousand seven hundred and Ninety eight,
aged Thirty six years eleven months and two days
Jane Foulke the eldest daughter of the first before named Theophilus and
Margaret Foulke Departed this life March the 16th A D 1816 between the hours of
12 and 1 O’clock in the afternoon aged 56 years 6 Mo. 23 Days. She sometime
previous to he decease Verbally bequeathed this Bible to her sister Margaret
during her life and after her Decease to descend to her Nephew B. Franklin
Foulke
(Page Five)
The following evidently were Samuel and Margaret (Morgan) Thomas, and
their children:
------- Thomas was born February 17 A D --------
Margaret his wife born August 23 AD 1693
Births and names of their Children are as follows (to wit)
Elizabeth March 5th 1714
Catherine December 31st 1715
Samuel October 14th 1717
Thomas March 1st 1719 died Oct. 12th, 1780 aged 61
John February 19th 1720
Edward January 23d. 1722 died Apr 4–1782 aged 60 years
Ellin(?) January 19th 1724 died June 6th 1800 aged 76 yr 4M 7d
Mary December 10th 1726
h 1728
, the 2d September 8th, 1730
el, the 2d June 19th 1732
Margaret June 3, 1734
iam February 31st 1736 died April 21st, 1815 at his residence
in Richland-town, State of Ohio.
The page from which the above was copied was badly torn and faded.
Samuel Foulke the Eldest son of the before mentioned Hugh Foulke & Ann married
Ann Greasley 8-m-2, 1743 by whom he had the following Issue.
Eleanor born Sept 5th 1744 Died July 6–1833 aged 88 years & 10 months
Thomas Ditto June 9th 1746
Israel Ditto September 21 1749 Died Sept. 19th 1754
Judah Ditto April 30 1752 Died June 6–1752
Amelia Ditto July 3 1753
Hannah Ditto Sept 15 1756 Died March–1840 aged 83 years
Israel Ditto Feby 4 1760 Died Sept–1824 aged 64 years
& 7 months
Judah Ditto Jan’y 18 1763
Cadwallader Ditto June 14 1765 Died March 22, 1830 aged 64
years 9 months & 5 days
John Ditto Dec. 6, 1767 Died April 6th 1840 aged 72
years 2 months and eleven days
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yr mo.
Samuel Foulke Dec’d Jan’y 21st 1797 aged 78 10 17
Ann Foulke Died May 12th 1797 aged 70 9
Edward Foulke son of Hugh Foulke and Ann his wife of Richland Departed this
life the Eighth day of the first month called March in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven Hundred forty seven years aged: 17 years & nere 3 months and
was buried the Tenth of ye same in Richland burying ground.
Mary Boon our eldest Daughter departed this life the 20th day of 2d mo. called
February new stile in the year of our Lord: A.D. 1756 and was buried: 22d of
eye same in the 42: year of her age.
Jane Foulke’s Jun. Book 1802
Margaret Foulke widow of Cadwallader Foulke and daughter of Theophilus &
Margaret Foulke died May the 16th. 1845 at 10 o’clock in the evening aged 74
years 4 months & 16 days.
John Greasley the Grandfather of the before named Ann Greasley (wife of Samule
Foulke) died August 6th. 1709.
[Graphic of a Coat of Arms]
Arms of Lloyd of Glanllyn and Gwern Y Brechtwn
vert, a chevron between three wolves’ heads erase, argent.
Descent of Edward Foulke, Ancestor of the
Foulke Family of Gwynedd and Richland, and other
Settlers, From the Lloyds of Glanllyn and
Gwern Y Brechtwn, Merionethshire
North Wales.
With the coat-of-arms borne by Rhirid Flaidd (or Blaidd) which by right
Edward Foulke inherited, there seems to have been used two different Mottoes:
One Welsh: “Blaidd Rhudd Ar Y Blaen” – “The Red Wolf to the Front”
One Latin: “Consequitur quod conque petit” – “He gets What he
Seeks”
A re-union on 5th March 30th, 1898, of over five hundred of the
descendants of Edward and Eleanor Foulke was held in the Friends’ [page
127] meeting house at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the two hundredth
anniversary of their arrival in America.
“The site of the original house, on which is located an old and
interesting home, west of the railroad and about five hundred feet north of
Penllyn Station, was also visited, as well as the burying ground adjoining the
meeting house where Edward Foulke is buried.”
A volume prepared by a committee appointed at this re-union, published
soon after, gives the ancestry of Edward Foulke slightly different from that
given by himself and shows that Rhirid Flaidd (or Rhirid the Wolf) was the son
of Georgenen, son of Colwyn ap Moreidig, who was a descendant of the King of
Gwynedd, who reigned Anno Domini 330. It is also noted that Sir Gruffyd
(Griffith, son of Mtaddock) “became one of the richest and most distinguished
men of his race. He led a band of Welshmen to the French wars, was with Edward
III, at Crecy, and subsequently commanded a company of free lances, which
terrorized the Department of the Seine and Loire in 1357, pillaging all except
such as were strongly garrisoned.”
A line of ancestry amplified by the compiler of this work and confirmed
by Thomas Allen Glenn, author of “Merion in the Welsh Tract,” is as follows:
Edward Foulke, from Wales, settled at Gwynedd 1698
(Son of) Foulke ap* Thomas
Thomas ap Robert
Robert Lloyd w h o m a r r i e d Mary
David Lloyd ap David daughter of Lowry
David ap Ievan Vychan daughter of Ellissau
Ievan Vychan of ap Gruffyd
Llannwchllyn son of Lowry
Ievan ap Gruffyd daughter of Owen
Gruffyd ap Madoc ap Llewlyn
Madog ap Iorwerth son of Eleanor
Iowerth of Penllyn daughter of Thomas
Lord of Penllyn ap Llewlyn
Madog of Rhiwaedog son of Eleanor de
Rhirid Flaidd Barr
daughter of Eleanor
daughter of Edward I.
son of Henry III.
son of John, King of
England, born December
24, 1167, crowned 1199,
signed Magna Charta
June, 1215, died October
19, 1216
* Ap, used in Welsh pedigrees, meaning son.
[page 128]
The following article was published in the early summer of 1918, in the
New York Evening Sun and gives an interesting account of the Foulke Family in
England, also mention of the different ways of spelling the name:
“Sir William ffoulkes of Hillington Hall and Compton Lodge, in Norfolk,
whose only son and heir, a lieutenant of the Royal Rifles, has been killed at
the front in France, is a near neighbor of King George who indeed rents most of
the Hillington shooting from him. The relations between Hillington Hall and
Sandringham have always been very close ever since the late King Edward first
settled in Norfolk, and the Rev. F. A. ffoulkes, who now becomes next heir to
his brother’s baronetcy and entailed estates, is one of the principal chaplains
of his sovereign.
“The late Baronet, who also bore the name of Sir William ffoulkes, was
for a number of years Mayor of King’s Lynn and as such welcomed Edward VII to
King’s Lynn on the occasion of his visiting that ancient town for the first
time after his succession to the throne. The King signalized the event by
bestowing upon Sir William the star of the Victorian Order, using for the
purpose of knighting him, not, as usual, the sword of one of his equerries, but
the very self-same sword that had belonged to King John 700 years ago. It had
been the most highly prized possession of the municipality of King’s Lynn ever
since it was presented to the Mayor of the town by King John, whose principal
title to fame is that he granted to the English Barons ‘Magna Charta’ in June,
1215, which may be regarded as the foundation of the constitution and of the
civic rights and liberties of the English.
“The ffoulkes are a very old family of East Anglia, who first came to
the fore in the reign of Henry V. Sir William ffoulkes was a dignitary of the
Court of Henry VI and Martin ffoulkes was Attorney-General to Queen Catharine
of Braganza, consort of Charles II.
“With regard to the peculiar spelling of the name, it is due to the
fact that in olden times it was found more easy to substitute two small f’s for
a single capital letter, and there are a number of old families whose name
begins with an “f” that continue to spell their names in this fashion.”
[END] David Wallace Tourison, Sheridan Wyoming, 27 MAR 2002
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