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.