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Last name: Wakley SDB Popularity ranking: 36687 Recorded in a number of individual spellings including Wackley, Wakeley, Wackly, Wakley, Wakely, Wakearly, Wackerley, Wakerley and possibly others, this is an English locational surname. It originates either from the village of Wakerley in the county of Northamptonshire, some eight miles from Stamford, or from Wakeley in the county of Hertfordshire, north of London. Wakerley is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wacherlai, as indeed is Wakeley in Herts. In both cases the development is from the pre 7th century Olde English 'Waca', a personal name of some popularity, and meaning 'watchful' plus the suffix 'leah', meaning a clearing in a wood, and the origin of the popular surnames Lea, Lee and Leigh. Locational surnames were given either to the lord of the manor, although we have no such record in this case, or to people after they left their original homes and moved elsewhere. 'Elsewhere' may be the next village or more probably London, where this surname in all its spellings is well recorded. Interestingly, the first recording that we have of this name is from the opposite direction entirely, and is that of Roger de Wakeley, who is to be found in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of 1332, of the county of Staffordshire, where he held substantial lands. The surname is also well recorded in the city of London where Thomas Wakerly appears in the register of St Giles Cripplegate on June 25th 1704, whilst in Ireland Thomas Wakeley of Ballyburly, Kings County, was a landowner registered with the Ulster Office in 1723. Another interesting name holder was Thomas Wakley M.D., and co-founder with William Cobbett in 1823, of the famous medical magasine 'The Lancet'. He was an early campaigner to prevent manufacturers from adulterating food, a fight which still goes on. © Copyright: Name Origin Research 1980 - 2017

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Elizabeth Humes
Female
about 1604–9 September 1675
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Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Humes was born about 1604, in England, her father, Father Humes, was 31 and her mother, Mother Humes, was 26. She married Thomas Wakely about 1625, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 9 September 1675, in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in India.

Family Members

Spouse

Thomas Wakely
Male
1600–1675

Elizabeth Humes
Female
1604–1675
Marriage
about 1625
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Children (8)

John Wakley
Male
1628–1675

Elizabeth Wakely
Female
1628–1675

Isaac Wakley
Male
1630–Deceased

John Wakely
Male
1632–1675

Isaac Wakley
Male
1634–1676

Daniel Wakeley
Male
1637–1676

Thomas Wakely
Male
1640–1644

Sarah Wakely
Female
1641–1641
Parents

Father Humes
Male
1575–Deceased

Mother Humes
Female
1580–Deceased

Siblings (1)

Elizabeth Humes
Female
1604–1675

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Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Wakely (abt. 1604 - 1675)

Elizabeth Wakely formerly [surname unknown]
Born about 1604 in Englandmap [uncertain]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling%28s%29 unknown]
Wife of Thomas Wakley — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Elizabeth (Wakley) Coe, John Wakely and Isaac Wakley
Died 9 Sep 1675 at about age 71 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Elizabeth's origin and parentage are unknown. She probably came from England to New England in 1634 with her husband Thomas and their children, settling at Hingham. They removed to Gloucester by 1646, then to Casco in what is now Maine, by 1661.[1]

The elderly Elizabeth and her husband Thomas with their son and daughter-in-law were killed in a raid by Native Americans on their home in Casco on 9 Sep 1675.[1]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634–1635, Volume 7, T–Y. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2011, pp. 188-93.
See also:

Little Compton Families: From Records Compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co, Fifth edition, 1997) Vol. I, p. 195.