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PYKE, Honor
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Name PYKE, Honor Birth Abt 1779 Yarcombe, Devon, England
Gender Female Death 29 Aug 1863 Martock, Somerset, England
Burial 3 Sep 1863 Martock, Somerset, England
Person ID I7870 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family BUTCHER, Joseph, b. 1777, Martock, Somerset, England
d. 1855, Martock, Somerset, England
(Age 78 years) Marriage 25 Oct 1804 Martock, Somerset, England
Family ID F2844 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
HONOR or HONOUR PIKE or PYKE Circa1779 -1863
Honor PYKE was born at Yarcombe, Devon, in about 1779.
(Martock register of burials)
Joseph BUTCHER and Honour [sic] PYKE were married at Martock, Somerset, on 25 October 1804.
(The Martock Genealogist, Book One, by Roy Maber)
From the 1841 census of the parish of Martock, hamlet of Milton, in Somerset:
Joseph BUTCHER, aged 65, agricultural labourer, born in Somerset;
*Honor BUTCHER, aged 55, born in Somerset.
(HO107/951/2/44/7)
From the 1851 census of Milton Falconbridge, Martock, Somerset:
Joseph BUTCHER, head, married, aged 73, agricultural labourer, born at Martock, Somerset [i.e. born in 1777 or 1778];
*Honor BUTCHER, wife, married, aged 67, glover, born at Yarcombe, Devon [i.e. born in 1783 or 1784].
(HO107/1930/90/5)
Joseph BUTCHER of Milton died in 1855 and was buried at Martock on 17 January aged 77.
(GRO March Q 1855 Yeovil 5c 451)
(FreeReg)
From the 1861 census of Hucksters Shop, North Street, Martock, Somerset:
Joseph BANFIELD, head, married, aged 56, shopkeeper, born at Martock, Somerset;
Ann BANFIELD, wife, married, aged 56, born at Martock, Somerset;
*Honor BUTCHER, lodger, widow, aged 76, born at Yarcombe [i.e. born in 1784 or 1785).
(RG9/1642/11/16)
She died at Martock, Somerset on 29 August 1863.
"Aug, 29, in North-street, Martock, the residence of Mr. Joseph BANFIELD, Honor, relict of the late Mr. Joseph BUTCHER, aged 83 years"
(Western Gazette, 12 September 1863)
(GRO September Q 1863 Yeovil 5c 356)
Honor BUTCHER was buried at Martock, Somerset, on 3 September 1863 at the age of 84 [i.e. born circa 1779].
(FreeReg)
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