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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Quicke
Given Name:
Elizabeth
Soundex Code:
Q200
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Female
Date of Birth or Christening:
1614
Parish:
Barnstaple
County:
Devon
Nation:
England
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
about 1634
Residence
Parish:
Barnstaple
County:
Devon
Nation:
England
Research Notes
Comments:
"Female emigrants, too, were often bound to fieldwork, or taken as 'maids to wives,' but the girls listed above were not necessarily on the parish, on the streets, or even from poor backgrounds. Elizabeth Quicke, baptised in Barnstaple in July 1614, was the daughter of a goldsmith who had inherited a substantial business from his father, and probably the latter's house in one of the most prosperous streets of the town." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Alison Grant, “Emigration from Devon in the Seventeenth Century,†Michael Duffy et al, The New Maritime History of Devon, Volume I: From Early Times to the Late Eighteenth Century (London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 1992), 148, quoting John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 (1874; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 151-152; also quoting J.F. Chanter, "The Barnstaple Goldsmiths' Guild," Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 49 (1917), 179-180.