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EDWARD FOULKE, The Immigrant
BIRTH: 13 May 1651 in Coed-Y-Foel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales DEATH: Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania BURIAL: Gwynedd Friends Burial Ground, Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Wales FATHER: Merionethshire, Wales MOTHER: *Lowry verch EDWARD - BIRTH: 1623 in Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales MARRIAGE: 1682 - *Eleanor HUGHES) in Merionethshire?, Wales - BIRTH: 1651 in Spytu Parish, Denbighshire, Wales CHILDREN: 1. Thomas FOULKE - BIRTH: 7 Aug 1683 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 2. Jane FOULKE - BIRTH: 10 Jan 1684 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 3. *Hugh FOULKE - BIRTH: 6 Jul 1685 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 4. Catharine FOULKE - BIRTH: Abt. 1686 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 5. Margaret FOULKE - BIRTH: Abt. 1688 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 6. Evan FOULKE - BIRTH: Abt 1689 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 7. Gwen FOULKE = BIRTH: 13 Jul 1690 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 8. Cadwallader FOULKE - BIRTH: 13 Sep 1691 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales 9. Grace FOULKE - BIRTH: Abt 1693 in Coed-Y-Foel, Rhiwlas, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales  Edward was the third son of Foulke ap Thomas who was the third son of Thomas ap Evan Lloyd. FOULKE, Edward, Pennsylvania, 1698 (Wales): Coat of Arms Blazon: Vert, a chevron between three boars' heads erased argent. Crest: A boar's head erased argent Motto: Blaidd rhudd ar y blaen. Edward Foulke, the immigrant, born in Wales, 13 July 1651, resided at Coed y Foel in Rhiwlas, Merionethshire, Wales. He and his family left for Liverpool on 3 Apr 1698 (some accounts say 2 Feb, 1698) and arrived two days later. They boarded the ship "Robert and Elizabeth" on 17 April and the next day sailed to Ireland. On the 1st of May they sailed again across the sea which took about 11 weeks. They survived the sore distemper of the bloody flux [dysentery] which broke out in the vessel and landed in the province of Pennsylvania and arrived at Philadelphia about 17 July, 1698. He purchased a tract of land of about 700 acres at Gwynedd, or North Wales, and settled there the beginning of November 1698. (From the Foulke Family Tree given to Marjorie Glaze/Hart Gisi by her Aunt Wilma Viola Foulke Stanley in 1984.) "I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke Thomas, the son of Evan, the son of Robert, the son of David Lloyd, the son of David, the son of Evan Vaughan, the son of Griffith the son of Madock, the son of Jerworth, the son of Madock, the son of Ririd blaidd of the Poole, who was Lord of Penllyn, one of the northern divisions of Wales." (Quote of Edward Foulke) "My mother's name was Lowry, the daughter of Edward the son of David, the son of Ellis, the son of Robert, of the Parish of Llanvor, in Merionethshire. " (Quote of Edward Foulke) Edward Foulke's own words, translated from Welsh: "I was born on the 13th of Fifth month [July], 1651, and when arrived at mature age, I married Eleanor, the daughter of Hugh ap Cadwallader, ap Rhys, of the Parish of Spytu, in Denbighshire. I had by my said wife nine children, whose names are as follows: Thomas, Hugh, Cadwallader and Evan; Grace, Gwen, Jane, Catherine and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coed-y-foel, a farm belonging to Roger Price, Esquire, of Rhiwlas, Merionethshire, aforesaid. But in process of time, I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pennsylvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d day of the Second month [April], A.D., 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping, the 17th of the same month on board the 'Robert and Elizabeth', and the next day we set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the 1st of the Third Month (May), and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux [dysentery] broke out in the vessel, of which died five and forty persons in our passage. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted. But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I, with my wife and nine children, escaped the sore mortality, and arrived safe at Philadelphia the 17th of the Fifth month (July), where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintances." "I soon purchased a tract of land of about seven hundred acres, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company who came over the sea with us settled near me at the same time. This was the beginning of November, 1698, aforsaid, and the township was called Gwynedd, or North Wales. This account was written the 14th of the eleventh month (January), A.D. 1702."  |
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SOURCES: 1. Foulke Family Tree given to Marjorie Glaze/Hart Gisi by her Aunt Wilma Viola Foulke Stanley in 1984 2. Title: The Ancestry Of Edward Foulke, Of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. By Charles M. Ffoulke, Text: XVII Pg 23 3. MARRIAGE: U.S. & International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 "Edward Foulke, Gender: male, Birth Place: Ba, Birth Year: 1651 Spouse name: Ellen Hughes Marriage year: 1682 4. In the "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestore, Vol. III": Lists "Foulke, Edward (1689 - 1739) m. Eleanor. - Town Founder." 5. Edward's lineage to Edward I, King of England, through Eleanor de Bar-le-Duc is found: Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Hugh Foulke's Ancestors, p 127. 6. Edward's lineage to Edward I, King of England, through Lady Joan Plantagenet, who married Gilbert, Earl of Hertford, is found: Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania, Genealogical Data, pp 298-300. (An account of his ancestry, tracing in unbroken line to "John King of England, born 24 Dec. 24, 1166, crowned May 27, 1216") 7. IMMIGRATION: 2 FEB 1697/98 Wales (arrived Pennsylvania 17 Jun 1698) Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Edward Foulke Name: Edward Foulke Year: 1698 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Family Members: 9 children Source Publication Code: 9448 Primary Immigrant: Foulke, Edward Annotation: Settlement of "Welsh Tract" lands granted by William Penn, 1681. Mentions many celebrated early immigrants and the ships they took. Source Bibliography: BROWNING, CHARLES H. Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1912. 631p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967. Page: 596 8. Bucks County PA History, From the History of Bucks Co Pennsylvania From the Discovery of the Delaware to The Present Time by William W.H. Davis Second Edition 1905, Transcribed as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family Project, Abbrev: USGenWeb, Bucks Co., History Name: USGenWeb Website http://www.usgenweb.com/
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