Zachary Hammett DRAKE Zachary Hammett Drake was baptised on 5 September 1777 at Barnstaple, county Devon. [Barnstaple parish register]
Parents: Henry Drake and Anne (née Hammett).
At the time of his marriage in October 1803 Zachary Hammett Drake was living at "Chapel" (or "Chapel Lodge"), in the parish of Morwenstow, county Cornwall.
Frances CUTCLIFFE Frances Cutcliffe was born on 25 May 1780 and baptised on 6 June 1780 at Pilton. County Devon. She was the eldest daughter of the family, and grand-daughter (and eventually co-heir) of John Mervyn of Marwood. Frances was co-heir with her brother, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mervyn Cutcliffe, of Wibbery, parish of Alverdiscott, county Devon.
Parents: Charles Newell Cutcliffe (of Marwood Hill, Marwood) and Margaret (née Mervyn)
Zachary Hammett Drake and Frances Cutcliffe were married on 6 October 1803 at Marwood, county Devon. Marwood is a village and parish located 5 km. NNW of Barnstaple; the parish church is St. Michael’s.
Children: Zachary Hammett, born on 14 February 1805 and baptised at Morwenstow, co.
Cornwall; married Eleanor Penrose Pym.
Frances Mervyn, baptised on 29 September 1806 at Morwenstow.
Charles Cutcliffe, born on 29 September 1808; baptised on 29 September 1808
at Pilton, co. Devon.
(see Appendix for further details)
Zachary Drake was in the Commission of the Peace (a Justice of the Peace), and was Deputy Lieutenant for the Counties of Devon and Cornwall.
W. Hammett Drake is listed as a Commissioner (along with O.S. Saunders and William Spurway) on the Stoke Rivers Land Tax Records for 1817.
Zachary Hammett Drake lived at “Chapel” in the parish of Morwenstow (county Cornwall) and afterwards at Springfield, near Barnstaple.
Frances Drake's brother, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mervyn Cutcliffe, died in 1822 without issue. By the terms of his Will apparently Frances Drake inherited the Cutcliffe estates.
Vellum document (one page) dated 10 April 1828 [measuring 25.5 inches (long) by 31 inches (wide)]:
… a security for £500 on a dwelling and gardens in High Street, Barnstable in the County of Devon. It is between Benjamin Baller, Zachery Hammett Drake, John Gribble, and John Marshall to Joseph Wingnett Hunt. It retains the revenue stamp and the seal and signature of Benjamin Baller. [Description of a document offered for sale on E-bay]
In 1841 Zachary Hammett Drake Esquire and Humphry Worth were listed as the landowners/occupiers of land at the site of the (yet-to-be-built) Woodford Bible Christian Chapel, at the hamlet of Woodford, in the parish of Morwenstow, county Cornwall (field number 1641, described as "common garden"; size one rood, 11 poles) ['Woodford Methodist Chapels: 1841 Tithe Schedule']
Zachary Hammett Drake, of Springfield, died on 11 March 1847 and was buried on 17 March at Marwood, county Devon. His Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 27 August 1847.
Frances Drake died on 5 (or 15) April 1867 and was buried at Marwood. A memorial in St. Mathew's Church at Lee Bay (near Ilfracombe), North Devon, states:
In Memory of Frances Drake. Widow of Hammett Drake and daughter and heiress of Charles Newell Cutcliffe.
When Mrs. Frances Drake died she was succeeded in the Cutcliffe Estates by her grandson, Charles Henry Drake-Cutcliffe, the eldest of the two sons of Charles Cutcliffe Drake of Springfield (then deceased). [W.R. Drake (cited above)].
Appendix The children of Zachary Hammett Drake and Frances (née Cutcliffe): Zachary Hammett Drake (born on 14 February 1805 and baptised at Morwenstow, co. Cornwall); married Eleanor Penrose Pym on 1 January 1831 at Tamerton Foliot, co. Devon. Rector of Clovelly. [click a link for further details]
Frances Mervyn Drake was baptised on 29 September 1806 at Morwenstow, county Cornwall. She married Colonel John Graham (H.E.I.C.S.) on 3 July 1838 at Heanton Punchardon, county Devon. H.E.I.C.S. (Honourable East India Company's Civil Service) was the name given to the top general administrative cadre of civil servants in India until 1858. Frances Mervyn Graham died on 19 October 1845 at Dacca, East Indies. Her body was returned to England and she was buried at Ashford, a small village on the north side of the Taw estuary, 2 miles WNW of Barnstaple.
Charles Cutcliffe Drake was baptised on 29 September 1808 at Pilton, county Devon. He married Mary Cusack on 19 May 1836 in Ilfracombe, county Devon.
[Marriage notice, 27 May 1836] On Wednesday, at Ilfracombe, by the Rev. John St. Vincent Bower, Charles Cutcliffe Drake, Esq. second son of Zachary Hammett Drake, Esq. of Springfield, near Barnstaple, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Henry Cusack, Esq. of Girley, County Meath, Ireland.
The couple had the following children:
Dorothy Mervyn, born on 18 February 1837; married Charles Whittington Landon on 18
February 1862 at Pilton, Devon; died on 31 March 1869.
Anne Frances, born on 13 December 1838; married (1) Thomas McGhie Brydges
(2) Joseph Henry Goodban.
Charles Henry, born on 4 June 1840, bapt. 7 July 1840 at Ashford, Devon; surname
changed to Drake-Cutcliffe (by Royal license May 1857); married
Henrietta Maria Landon on 6 October 1868 at Braunton, Devon; died 9
February 1875, buried at Ilfracombe, Devon.
John Rothwell, bapt. 12 September 1842 at Heanton Punchardon, Devon; buried on 24
February 1859 at Marwood.
Charles Cutcliffe Drake was a Justice of the Peace for Devonshire and a Captain in the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry. The name “C.C. Drake, Esq.” was amongst those listed in 1850 with significant estates in the parish of Heanton Punchardon [White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]. The following is a description of a document dated 1851 regarding "a leasehold tenement called Pludd at Ilfracombe":
[Document dated 1851] being the assignment of a leasehold tenement called Pludd at Ilfracombe in the county of Devon, between John Sherard Clay and Alfred Drake both of Barnstaple in the county of Devon, Gentlemen of the first part; John Marshall of Barnstaple aforesaid, Charles Cutcliffe Drake of Springfield in the same county, Henry Ivie Gribble of Barnstaple aforesaid, bankers and co-partners of the second part (being the trustees of the Barnstaple Old Bank); the said Charles Cutcliffe Drake of the third part; William Richard Drake of Parliament Street in the City of Westminster Gentleman of the fourth part; and Francis Drake of the fifth part. [15 sheets of hand-made paper – folded size 16 inches x 13 inches in fine to very fine condition – some storage wear to outside sheet] [Description of a document offered for sale on E-bay]
Charles Cutcliffe Drake (of "Springfield", Heanton Punchardon, Devon) died on 18 October 1858, aged 50 years, and was buried on 23 October at Marwood, county Devon. His Will was dated 11 July 1854; "Adnon. with will attached granted 23 Sept. 1859 to his widow".
Mary Drake’s sister, Ann Cusack, died in 1867, by which Mary became the sole heir of the estates of her father, Henry Cusack, of Girley, county Meath, Ireland. Mary Drake died on 21 February [1880 ? see below], aged 61 years, and buried on 24 February at Marwood. A plaque in St. Matthews Church at Lee Bay, North Devon, reads:
In memory of Charles Cutcliffe Drake, Esquire, younger son of the late Zackery… Drake, Esquire, and Frances, his wife, daughter of Charles Newell Cutcliffe, Esquire. He died 18th October 1858 aged 50. Also in memory of Mary, widow of the above named Charles Cutcliffe Drake, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Henry Cusack of Lara, Co… Esquire. She died 21st. Feb. 1840 [?? possibly 1880] aged 61 years.
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