Thank you Cecilia and Chris, Its 2:40 am here - back tomorrow! David On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:05 AM, cecilia wrote: > David Daniell wrote: >> " . . . Upon which I suspended the said Fry from setting any more in >> H.M. Council till His Royal pleasure was known thereon : This I did >> by >> vertue of the last clause of my 13th Instruction ; for these reasons >> which I cou'd not communicate to the Council, (vizt.) That a majority >> of them were his very near relations by blood or alliance, Mr. Wyke >> being Mr. Fry's own nephew, Mr. Irish married his neice, and is also >> his relation in blood, Mr. Cook and Mr. Hodges are his cozin >> Germans ; >> which if I shou'd have openly mention'd wou'd have been accusing them >> of partiallity; . . . " >> this is what I know including that imputed from the above passage: >> FRY(e) - William Frye a member of the Council (son of a sister of the >> next?) >> WYKE - apparently a brother of Edward Wyke 1682-? sometime >> lieutenant- >> governor of the Island >> IRISH - William Irish, abt 1690-1725 spouse of Sarah Wyke, abt >> 1708-1748 d/o Edward above. Widowed she married Col. Samuel Martin >> COOK and HODGES - first cousins to William Frye (= cousins german) >> and >> so the same to Wyke? >> How is Frye "a relation in blood" to Irish? > > FRY is uncle of WYKE, not nephew. > > COOK and HODGES would be related to WYKE, first cousins to his mother > so first cousin once removed to him. > > If Sarah Wyke is a child of Edward Wyke, it is possibly that WYKE is > also, or Sarah and WYKE may be first cousins with their mothers being > sisters, nee Fry, who married two (one each) men named Wyke that need > not have been brothers, but (given the size of the community) were > probably related. > > There is no indication above how FRY and IRISH are related. I think > it likely to be more distant than first cousin once removed, or it > would have been spelled out, unless the point was felt to have already > been adequately made. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message