Baltimore Sun 10 Apr 1904 SIDE-LIGHTS The Lake Family John Lake of Irby, who married the daughter of ------ Osgodby, had a son, Richard Lake of Irby, whose first wife, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Edward Wardell of Keelby, was the mother of Edward Lake, Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln, a staunch adherent of King Charles I, fought for his sovereign at the battle of Naseby, in recognition of which services he was knighted and granted a coat of arms, being an additional augmentation. Sir Edward Lake was given the privilege of naming his successor to his title and estates. He died in the middle of the seventeenth century and was succeeded by his grandnephew, Sir Bibye Lake, subgovernor of the African Company. [ From: "Frank Lake" Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:35:00 -0400 In [this] article, Sir Edward LAKE, is said to have fought at Naseby. He in fact fought at Edgehill, one of the first battles of the (British) Civil Wars. As stated he was awarded an augmentation to his coat of arms but I have yet to discover whether he already possessed his coat of arms before the augmentation or whether he achieved both at the same time. The article further states that Sir Bibye LAKE succeeded Sir Edward to his baronetcy. This again is not quite true. Sir Edward received his patent of baronetcy from Charles I during the war and it could not be acted on until after Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660. I think Sir Edward was created a baronet of Ireland and therefore ranked below the baronets of England, Scotland but probably above those of Nova Scotia. Sir Edward had served for some years in Ireland as Solicitor General and a MP for Cavan. Sir Edward in his will specified that his baronetcy could only go to a descendent of his brother Thomas who had as a first name Bibye, Seaman, Wadell or Caley and last name of LAKE by birth or change of name. Therefore although Sir Edward's nephew Thomas was his major beneficiary, it was only until after Thomas's death in 1711 that his son Bibye sent the patent of baronetcy to Queen Anne so that she could renew the baronetcy on him. The story goes that the patent of baronetcy was lost but since Sir Bibye had many friends at court, (He was subgovernor of the Africa Company and more importantly governor of The Hudson's Bay Company in which many courtiers and probably the Crown had invested) he was given a baronetcy in which he was described as the first baronet with a creation date of 1711. Had he been able to go back to his great-uncle's baronetcy the creation date of 1661 or 1662 would have given him higher precedence. It seems stupid to our modern eyes but much has changed in 300 years. ] Tradition says that the founders of the Lake family in Maryland left England as the result of religious persecutions following the death of the Martyr King. Those who arrived in the Province after this event were John Lake, who came in 1658, and George and John Lake, who arrived three years later, and were probably brothers. [ From: "Frank Lake" Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:35:00 -0400 Charles I was beheaded in 1649 and his son restored to the throne in 1660. I would question the reason for leaving England although it may be true. If it is assumed the persecution referred to Catholics and High Church Anglicans by 1658 they were in the main tolerated although they may have been fined or had their lands confiscated. After 1660, this would not have happened although they would have had to fight very hard to get compensation for their fines and confiscated lands. Sir Edward tried on a number of occasions and eventually was awarded the Chancellorship of the Diocese of Lincoln. There were a number of radical religious groups, even more so than those running England, who would have been persecuted both before 1649 and after 1660. However, such groups tended to go to New England or PA and not Maryland or Virginia. ] The name, however, appears much earlier in the Maryland records, as in 1637 Robert Lake, planter, an inhabitant of the Isle of Kent, figured in the court proceedings relative to Claiborne's rebellion two years earlier. It is therefore probable that he arrived with the party of first settlers on the Ark. From the many large land tracts patented to the Lake emigrants who settled in the lower part of Dorchester county one section bears the name of "Lake's district," which is still peopled with descendants of the first settlers. Rev. Charles Lake, of Dorchester county, whose name appears in the records as having conducted the services at "the church in Dorchester Parish" in the Colonial period 1739-40, left that county to become the rector of St. James' Parish, in Anne Arundel. He died in the latter county in the year 1764, leaving his books, papers, etc., to Rev. Samuel Keene and Mr. William Keene. The men of the Lake family rendered conspicuous service in the Revolutionary War, as well as in both church and civil life in the Colonial period. Capt. Henry Lake, son of Henry Lake, Sr., was commissioned captain of a company of Dorchester county militia in 1776. Some years later he was appointed judge or justice of Dorchester county, and in the year 1797 the important office of High Sheriff of the county was bestowed on him. Capt. Henry Lake married Rhoda Jewett in the year 1762 and had, among other children, a handsome daughter named Lovey -- a name suggestive of the winsomeness which, added to her high spirit, made her a great belle. An interesting family tradition, in which Lovey was the heroine, tells of her defiantly resisting the attempt of a British soldier to take off her silver shoe buckles. It appears that the marauding party set fire to the Lake house to revenge the pretty Lovey, who, however, not only extinguished the fire, but made her escape through a back window, never stopping until she reached her father's company of soldiers, who put the British ruffians to flight, glad to escape in their boats without their fair prisoner. The mother of this daughter of the Revolution also suffered in the cause, receiving a bayonet wound in the arm while resisting the capture of her husband. The interesting Lovey, or, more properly, Lavina Lake, became the wife of John Stewart McNamara, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and left numerous descendants. Two of Capt. Henry Lake's children married into the Barnes family, two married Slocums, while others formed alliances with the Keenes and Muirs. The wife of Gov. Thomas Holliday Hicks was a great-granddaughter of Capt. Henry Lake, the High Sheriff and Justice of Dorchester county. Another great-granddaughter of this distinguished Revolutionary officer became the wife of the late Mr. Benjamin F. Cator, one of the founders of the firm of Armstrong & Cator. Other direct descendants intermarried with the Hooper, Henry, Eccleston, Craig, Mister, Phillips, Dail, Noble and Medford families. George Lake, the son of Capt. Henry Lake and his wife, Rhoda Jewett Lake, became a captain of the Dorchester county militia in the War of 1812-14 in the Forty-eighth Regiment, Maryland Detached Service, Colonel Jones command. During an engagement with General Ross, men at Honga River in the year 1814 Capt. George Lake had his horse shot from under him. This gallant officer married Catherine Boyne, a descendant of the distinguished old family of Ireland, she being the daughter of Dr. Boyne, of Dublin. The names of "Washington," "Augustus" and "Bushrod" indicate an intermarriage with the family of the first President. Besides the various officers of the Revolutionary Army and the War of 1812-14 many of the Lake men fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the list makes a remarkable showing for one family, all springing from the old Maryland fighting stock: Robert Pinkney Lake, M. D., surgeon in the Army of Northern Virginia. Capt. Levin Lake, quartermaster, Mississippi regiment. He served throughout the war and rendered distinguished service in furnishing Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army with food supplies at Atlanta and Rome, 1864. Capt. Gabriel Perry Lake, Mississippi Cavalry. Richard Pinkney Lake, second lieutenant Capt. R. E. Wynne's company, Mississippi Cavalry, and second lieutenant in command of a brigade at the close of the war. Capt. James Rushrod Lake, aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Bushrod Johnson. Augustus Washington Lake, private in Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment, wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Edwin B. Lake, son of Capt. Levin Lake, lost his life in Texas on an expedition to capture a Federal gunboat. Levin Lake, Jr., aid-de-camp on the staff of General Early's Army of Northern Virginia. Walter S. Lake, ordnance sergeant Seventh Tennessee Regiment, with General Jackson's escort. Craig Lake, member of Maryland regiment, killed in Virginia. Albert Crawford Lake, Charles Henry Lake, George Lake and George W. Lake, Jr., privates in Stanford's Battery. Also many descendants of Capt. Henry Lake of other names were conspicuous in the various wars. Among the many descendants of the Revolutionary officer and High Sheriff of Dorchester county may be mentioned Mr. Chas. Lake, who has for the past 25 years been clerk of the County Court; Mr. Edwin S. Lake, Mrs. L. D. T. Noble, Mrs. William H. Medford, all of Cambridge, Md.; Mr. Richard P. Lake, of Memphis, Tenn.; the children of Hon. William A. Lake, member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional district (1856), having removed to Vicksburg, Miss., some years previously; Mr. George Cator, Mrs. Henry Harian, of Baltimore, and many others in Maryland and throughout the South.