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Lineage.
The origin of the Toke (Tooke) family originated with Le Sire de Toque who fought with William the Conqueror (1027-1087) at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Robert de Toke first of this lineage was with King Henry III (1207-1272) in 1264 at the Battle of Northampton.
Toke, de Toke of Westcliffe, County Kent, England, was the great grandson of Robert de Toke.
John Toke of Bere, Westcliffe, County Kent, England married (1) Elizabeth Mallmains, married (2) Ann. (during the reign of Edward III, 1312-1377.)
John Toke of Bere, Westcliffe, County Kent, England married Joyce, daughter of Sir Thomas Hoo, and had three sons: Thomas, Ralph, and John. The line of Thomas inherited Godington Park. Ralph Toke, Dover, County Kent, England married Jane, daughter and coheir of Roger Hawte of County Kent. Walter Toke of Dover, County Kent, England married Mary Stanhope.
Ralph Toke, Godington, County Kent, England married Alice daughter of William Meggs.
William (Toke) Tooke, Popes, County Hertford, England born 1508 died 04 December 1588 married Alice, born 1512, daughter of Robert Barley of Bibbesworth, County Hertford, England. William and Alice are buried in the church at Essenden, County Hertford, England.
William Tooke, Hertford Town, England, died 12 February 1610/11 married Mary, died 29 August 1623, daughter of Nicholas Tichborne, of Roydon, County Essex, England. William and Mary were buried in the church at Essenden, County Hertford, England.
James Tooke, Esquire, Auditor of the Court, of County Hertford, and St. Albans, London, England, was born 29 July 1583, died 21 November 1655 married Dorothy Gray, born 1584, died 28 November 1655 daughter of John Gray of London, England. James and Dorothy were buried in the All Saints church at Essenden, County Hertford, England.
James Tooke, born ca. 1601 Hertfordshire, England. died before 02 February 1662/3 in Virginia. He arrived in Virginia 1621 on the ship "George" and his expenses were defrayed by William Spencer as the ships carpenter. In 1630 his uncle Christopher Tooke of London bequeathed him L50 (in his last will and testament). In 1634 he leased 500 acres on the east side of Lawnes Creek. By 11 November 1640 he had acquired 900 acres in Isle of Wight County, Virginia on the head of one of the branches of the Blackwater near the cartway of Thomas Pritehart. Tooke was a member of the Virginia House of Burgess 1639/40, and in 1646. In 1646-1649, he was Justice of Isle of Wight County. His wife is unknown. James Tooke died in 1655 and Dorothy on 28 Nov 1655. His will was headed All Saints, Hertford, and instructed to be buried at Essenden, Hertford, in the chancel near where his father and mother were buried. He left his son, Edward, all his messuage in St. Sepulcher without Newgate, London, called Abbotts Lodgins; to son, Ralph Tooke, a tenement he purchased in St. Dunstan in the East, London, known by the name of the sign of the Three Queens, from his brother in law, Nathaniel Gray, deceased, in the name of his nephews, Ralphe tooke and Ralph Daniel. To son, Phillip his messuage in Southwark, Surrey, near Battle Bridge known by the sign of the Broode Hen and Chickens. To son, Charles Tooke, the inn purchased in the name of his brother, Nicholas Tooke (deceased) lying in Cambridge known as The Half Moon. To daughter, Maria. To son, John Tooke. Three youngest sons, Charles, Ralph and Phillip. Probated by Edward ooke on 24 Mar 1656.
James Tooke was a possible son of the above James Tooke. James Tooke came to Virginia on the ship "George" in 1621. He became a resident at Pashbehaighs in James City in 1625; appointed Burgess for the Isle of Wight in 1639. A land grant to William Spencer of James city, later Surry, provides the proof that James Tooke came in the ship "George", when Spencer obtained a land grant of 250 acres in 1632, 50 acres of which were on the west side of Lawnes Creek "due in the right of James Tooke who came in the george in 1621, the charges of whose passage he defrayed unto William Dunn, carpenter of said ship" and 50 acres in right of Joseph Deane who came in the Abagail in 1622 whose passage the said Spencer defrayed unto John Tooke, Mariner. James Tooke patented 178 acres of land on one side of the Blackwater branches on 14 Sept 1653. He made his will dated 1659, probated 1662, leaving his son, Thomas Tooke, his silver seal ring. His only daughter was named Dorothy. Issue:
- Thomas Tooke.
- William Tooke.
- Dorothy Tooke, married John Harvey, Governor of North Carolina. Her will dated 14 Nov 1682 made her brother Thomas Tooke executor.
