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Edward Kelke

b.ca.1620, d.ca.1659
Father: Edward Kelke, of Sandwich, gent.
Uncle: Robert Kelk(e), of Barnetby, Lincolnshire
Unmarried

Family background

Edward Kelke was son and heir of Edward Kelke (b.?, d. before 1630) of Sandwich, gent. Edward Kelke (senior) was the second of three Lincolnshire born brothers. The eldest was Sir Charles Kelke of Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire (b.?,d. ca.1608), with Edward (senior) the second brother, and Robert Kelke (b.?, d. ca. 1653) of Barnetby (in-the-wold), Lincolnshire, the youngest. Their father was Christopher Kelke (b.?, d.?) of Barnetby, Lincolnshire, who was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Carr of Sleaford, Lincolnshire.^[1]

Extract from Kelke of Barnetby, Lincolnshire pedigree

The Kelk(e) family was present in Lincolnshire from at least the early fifteenth century, with earlier Kelke family members resident in the county of York. ^[2] In the mid sixteenth century a Dr. Roger Kelke (b.?, d. 1575/76), son of an earlier but related Christopher Kelke of Barnetby, Lincolnshire, was appointed to a fellowship of St John's, Cambridge (1545) and to the Mastership of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1559-1576).^[3]

Edward (senior) appears in the records of the town of Sandwich in the early seventeenth century as its legally trained town clerk.^[4] A number of letters survive involving Edward Kelke (senior). These include a correspondence involving both Edward Kelke (senior) and Francis Raworth (senior), town clerks of Sandwich and Dover respectively, regarding the rights of the Cinque Ports to representation at the coronation of James I in 1603.^[5] There is also a surviving letter from Edward Kelke (senior) to Lord Zouch, dated Feb. 3, 1620/1.^[6]

The Kelke/Raworth commercial, and probably social, contact of the early seventeenth century extended to the next generation, with Edward Kelke (junior) befriending Robert Raworth, who was a practicing Gray's Inn lawyer, and who was the youngest son of Francis Raworth (senior).

The widow of Edward Kelke (senior) married Edward Boys of Bettishanger, esquire, as his second wife, on July 2nd 1630, at St. Mary’s, Sandwich.^[7] Edward Boys was the son of the well established gentry family of Boys with its seat at Fredville, Kent.^[8]

Career

Edward Kelke (junior) was schooled first with Mr Cholfin(e) of Sandwich and later with Mr Coleby of nearby Tilmanstone.^[9] Admitted to Sidney (Sussex) College, Cambridge in 1637, he transferred to Emmanuel two years later, in 1639.^[10]

In that same year he was admitted to Grays Inn (November 2nd 1639), six years after Robert Raworth's admission to the same Inn.^[11] Edward (junior) was called to the Bar in 1650/51. There are no records of him practising law in the 1650s, but he refers in his will to other former students of Grays Inn, such as Maximilian Dallison, who had been admitted to Gray's Inn in May 1650^[12] He died young, in 1659, having made Elizabeth Dallison his sole executrix.^[13]

Born in ca. 1620 Edward (junior) he was close to Sir George Oxenden in age, and was part of a social group centred on Gray's Inn, which included Sir George Oxenden, Christopher Oxenden, Elizabeth Dallison, Robert Raworth, Francis Raworth (junior), Maximilian Dalison, and others.^[14] He made Elizabeth Dallison the residual beneficiary of his will, the language of which revealing both trust and affection in the widowed Elizabeth, who was ten years older than him.^[15]

The will of Edward Kelke (junior) was unusual in that its principal beneficiaries were friends rather than family. He made bequests to only two family members - Mr. Kelke, brasier (who was almost certainly Thomas Kelke, brasier, of the parish of St. Michael's, Cornhill in London), and John Skepper, whose wife Elizabeth Kelke, lived in St, Michael's, Cornhill, at the time of their marriage in 1657.^[16]

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
Cowper, J.M., Canterbury marriage licences, vol. 2 (XXXX, 1894), p. 15

See will of Edward Kelke
See will of Robert Kelke

TNA, C 22/52/40

Secondary sources

Larken, Arthur Staunton, Lincolnshire pedigrees, vol. 4 (?London, 1906), p. 1214
Maddison, A.R., 'Kelke of Barnetby' in Lincolnshire pedigrees, vol. 2 (CHECK)(London, 1908), pp. 555-557
Venn, John, & J.A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, pt. 1 (Cambridge, 1924), p. 3

Additional information

“[1657] Publication, 3, 10, & 17 June 1657, of a Marriage betw. John Skipper, tallowchandler, & Elizabeth Kelke, sp:r, both of this par.
June 18 [1657] They were marr:d by Ald. Andrewes.”

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 was the main force behind the challenge to Elizabeth Dallison's administration of Edward Kelke's will. Emerson

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).

1. ↑ A.R. Maddison, 'Kelke of Barnetby in Lincolnshire pedigrees (London, 1903), p. 556; Arthur Staunton Larken, Lincolnshire pedigrees, vol. 4 (?London, 1906), p. 1214; PROB 11/228 Brent 166-217 Will of Robert Kelke of Barnetby-le-Wold, Lincolnshire 31 August 1653
2. ↑ A.R. Maddison, 'Kelke of Barnetby' in Lincolnshire pedigrees(London, 1903), pp. 555-557
3. ↑ John Venn, & J.A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, pt. 1 (Cambridge, 1924), p. 3); Lincolnshire Archives: 1ANC2/B/16/II/8 1571
4. ↑ East Kent Archives Centre: NR/CPh1/1; NR/CPh1/2
5. ↑ East Kent Archives Centre: NR/CPh1/1; NR/CPh1/2; East Sussex Record office: RYE/47/64/12; RYE/47/64/14; RYE/47/64/16
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ J.M. Cowper, Canterbury marriage licences, vol. 2 (XXXX, 1894), p. 15
8. ↑ Reverend Bryan Fausett note of wording of Boys monumental inscription in Betteshanger parish church, Kent Archaeological Society, Epitaphs from Kent Churches, manuscript, no named author named, p. 61; published online, contents listed http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsBax+Rice.htm, viewed 07/10/11, Betteshanger page (p.61) listed http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsBetteshanger/01.htm, viewed 07/10/11
9. ↑ John Venn, & J.A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, pt. 1 (Cambridge, 1924), p. 3
10. ↑ John Venn, & J.A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, pt. 1 (Cambridge, 1924), p. 3
11. ↑ J. Foster, (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), fol. 962, p. 224
12. ↑ PROB 11/293 Pell 350-399 Will of Edward Kelke of Gray's Inn, Middlesex 21 June 1659; XXXX
13. ↑ PROB 11/293 Pell 350-399 Will of Edward Kelke of Gray's Inn, Middlesex 21 June 1659
14. ↑ XXXX; PROB 11/293 Pell 350-399 Will of Edward Kelke of Gray's Inn, Middlesex 21 June 1659)
15. ↑ PROB 11/293 Pell 350-399 Will of Edward Kelke of Gray's Inn, Middlesex 21 June 1659
16. ↑ Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), The parish registers of St. Michael Cornhill (London, 1882), p. 37