Quicke's of Tiverton, Exeter

[mudpuppy2002]

Hello, I am researching the Quicke's of Exeter who ran the Kings Lodge Academy around 1800 - 1900.



Thomas Quicke b 1750 Tiverton, m Sarah Hartman 1768, d abt 1824



Thomas Quicke b 1772 Tiverton, m Susanna Cornish 1791, d 1831 Exeter



Thomas Quicke b 1797 St Ives, Cornwall, m Elizabeth Palmer Gibbs 1818, d Exeter 1870



etc.





Looking at this now I've typed it, I'm wondering about the first 2 being born in Tiverton and then the next in St Ives?



Anyway, I am wondering if anyone recognizes this line and can see if I've made any errors?


I am on Ancestry, my Gedmatch is A523713


Thanks in advance, Helen

[spikeharwood]

Hi Helen, and welcome to the forum.
You match my sister and myself on GEDmatch (T395186 and A251986). About 10cM on Chr1. I've had you sitting in a spreadsheet for a number of years with several other matches but without that segment being identified with any particular line. I've found you on Ancestry with the sister matching "NS" who also matches my second sister who I haven't put on GEDmatch yet. Ancestry is saying 8cM and there are no shared matches.

The match has to be on my mother's line as you don't match my father's kit.She had three Cornish grandparents and one who was half Cornish, half Scottish. I'm inclined to think your Cornish Quicks are going to be too far east to be connected to me. I notice you have a Scottish line, Tait/Bell. That is a possible connection but I can't get back beyond Robert McIntosh b 1840 Fife.

Spike

[Glazin2018]

Hello Helen

CT is the resident expert here on the QUICK(e) family but I do have a Thomas QUICK born in 1797 in St Ives in my database. However he did not marry Elizabeth Palmer GIBBS in 1818. Rather he married Elizabeth BENNATTS in 1817 at St Ives. He was the son of Benedict QUICK and Jane STEVENS.

The Cornwall OPC database does not show any other baptisms for a Thomas QUICK at that time.

The 1851 census has a Thomas QUICKE born in Tiverton around 1798 employed as a headmaster at a school that includes a daughter Elizabeth G., and a son Francis.

Lannanta

[mudpuppy2002]

Thanks for your reply's Spike and Lannanta.  It's great to meet a relative Spike! 

Looking at my Thomas Quicke (1797 - 1870)

I looked closer at Thomas Quicke (1797 - 1870) and I don't know why I have he was born in St Ives. All the census' say he was born in Tiverton, so I've changed him on Ancestry.

Lannanta - you have my Thomas on the 1851 census. He was a schoolmaster/owner of The Academy, Kings Lodge in Exeter for many years.

I've attached a pedigree view of my tree.

Helen in Ohio
Ancestry HelenDuquette44
Gedmatch A523713

Thomas Quicke Tree 2022.docx (171.12 KB)

[Cornish Terrier]

Hello Helen and Welcome to Penwith Genealogy.

Sorry for not having responded to your thread prior to this but other priorities have required more immediate attention.

I see a correction has been made regarding Thomas Quick of St Ives 1797 so you Quick line maintains a direct Devon connection. As Lannanta stated Thomas Quick born St Ives 1797 married Elizabeth Bennetts at St Ives in 1817 and his line can be traced directback to Thomas and Zenobia Quick at Zennor.

To my knowledge there is no known direct connection between the Quicks of West Cornwall and those of Devon although some of the Cornish Quicks did find there way to Devon and beyond during the 18th and 19th Centuries. There are also a couple of pockets of Quicks around mid-Cornwall whose connection in either direction still eludes me but to all intents and purposes there appear to be at least two separate Quick lines existing in Cornwall and Devon .... and possibly others beyond!

I do know that the Quicks of Devon can be found in registers dating back almost to 1538 when registers first came into being whilst the earliest known family in Cornwall appears to be that of Thomas and Zenobia whose first child appears to have been daughter Philippa baptised at Zennor in 1622.
The origins of this Thomas Quick of Zennor are not known and the fact that many of the early Parish Registers have not survived makes it difficult to determine whether or not he may have been born/baptized in Cornwall and whether or not there had been other family in Cornwall.

CT

[mudpuppy2002]

Thank you Cornish Terrier. I had high hopes of joining my Quicke's with the Cornish ones to broaden my tree!

Do you know of anyone working on the Devon Quicke's?

Thanks again,

[Cornish Terrier]

I don't know of anyone in particular who might be specifically working on the Devon Quicks but I don't think you are the first on this forum to post a query about them.

Are you aware there are also Quicks in Ireland? Available information online (for example FamilySearch) suggests they were there very early. In fact FamilySearch has images from the Public Record Office of Ireland 'Index to Prerogative Wills, 1536-1810' which include entries for a Michael Quick of Dublin, Merchant 1610 and a Robert Quick of Drogheda 1589!! (see following link)

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-994X-PVHX?cc=3460908&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AWGHS-ZB3Z

There is also an old legend that suggests the very first members of three Cornish families arrived at Zennor from Ireland in a 'coracle'.
Two of these families were supposedly QUICK and Stevens but I'm afraid I have, at least for the moment, forgotten the third. I am sure there will be someone on this forum who will be able remember the name of the third family.

CT