Transcript

of

James Manning

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), p. 222.

by

A.J.P. Skinner

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Note’s author corrects a Note appearing in volume V of the journal that mistakenly attributed Maria Oke, who married James Manning of Exeter in 1777 to a family residing in Pinhoe (Exeter), rather than the family of gentry residing at Pinney, Axmouth, and provides details of her descent. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 207. JAMES MANNING (V., par. 41-43, pp. 65-67). - From Lyme Regis, Dorset, Parish Church Registers: -

Marriages.

"James Manning, of Exeter, gent., & Maria Oke, 22 October, 1777."

She was one of four daughters of Walter Oke, of Pinney, in the parish of Axmouth (not of Pinhoe, near Exeter, par. 4i), Attorney at Law, and his wife Frances Enchmarch, of Crediton. Walter Oke, bapt., Axmouth, 23 Feb., 1702, was son of Walter Oke, of Axmouth, gent., and his wife Dinah Broughton, married at Axmouth, 19 August, 1684. Marble tablet on south wall of Combepyne Church: -

Sacred
to the Memory of
Walter Oke
late of Pinney in this county who
departed this life the 18th day of July
A.D. 1763, aged 60 years.
Also of Frances Oke his widow
who died 2nd day of March 1806
aged 94 years.
                                                                   A. J. P. S.