MRP: Edward Kelke
=Edward Kelke=
b.XXXX, d.XXX
Father: Edward Kelke, of Sandwich, gent.
Uncle: Robert Kelk(e), of Barnetby, Lincolnshire
Edward Kelke was son and heir of Edward Kelke of Sandwich, gent., who was brother of Robert Kelke of Barnetby, Lincolnshire. His father appears in the town of Sandwich records as town clerk of Sandwich. A letter from Edward Kelke senior to Lord Zouch, dated Feb. 3, 1620/1, survives.
The widow of Edward Kelke senior married Edward Boys of Bettishanger, esquire, July 2nd 1630, at St .ary’s, Sandwich.
Edward Kelke was admitted to Grays Inn, November 2nd 1639. He died young, in 1659, having made Elizabeth Dallison his sole executrix.
Primary sources
Letter from Edward Kelk (sic) to Lord Zouch, Feb. 3, 1620/21, printed in Commons Debates 1621, VII, 571-572, cited in Robert E. Ruigh, The Parliament of 1624: politics and foreign policy (Harvard, 1971), p. 133
J.M. Cowper, Canterbury marriage licences, vol. 2 (XXXX, 1894), p. 15
TNA, C 22/52/40
Secondary sources
Arthur Staunton Larken, Lincolnshire pedigrees, vol. 4 (?London, 1906), p. 1214
Alexander Emerson
Alexander Emerson (b.?, d.?1667) married, firstly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Alexander Emerson of Glamford, and, secondly, Frances, daughter and coheir of Robert Kelke of Barnetby, by Dorothy Metham his wife.
Alexander Emerson’s will was dated 12th September 1666 and it was proved 7th August 1667. He was the son of Robert Emerson of Cadney, and of Ellen Lightley (alt. Wainwright).
For background on the Emerson family see Peter Henry Emerson, The English Emersons: a genealogical historical sketch of the family from the earliest times to the end of the seventeenth century, including various modern pedigrees, with an appendix of authorities (XXXX, 1898)
