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Charles
Edward Francis Drake,
physician and
genealogist, member of
the Most Venerable Order
of the Hospital of St.
John of Jerusalem (MStJ,
2003; OStJ, 2009) the
Royal Order of Francis I
(Cav, 2006) and the
Order of Sts. Maurice
and Lazarus (Cav, 2007;
Uff., 2010), quondam
Baillie of the Barony of
Tranent, educated
Georgia Southern
University (BS, 1973,
physics, Summa Cum
Laude), Medical College
of Georgia (MD, 1977),
University of Louisville
(Internal Medicine,
Cardiology, Nuclear
Cardiology); practice of
cardiology, Savannah
from 1982, quondam
President of the Candler
Hospital medical staff;
Fellow American College
of Physicians, Fellow
American College
Cardiology, Fellow
American Society Cardiac
Angiography and
Interventions; Fellow
Augustan Society; Member
National Genealogical
Society, New England
Historic Genealogical
Society, Virginia
Genealogical Society,
Society Genealogists,
Heraldry Society of
Scotland, numerous
lineage societies,
including Society of the
Cincinnati in the state
of CT, Society Colonial
Wars, Jamestowne
Society, Society
Mayflower Descendants,
Baronial Order of the
Magna Charta, Order of
the Crown of
Charlemagne.
The armiger is the
author of The Drake
Family of Washington
County, Georgia and is
married to Rita Jayne
Elizabeth Chabot,
co-heiress of Raymond J.
Chabot (vide entry for
Rita J. Chabot), and has
issue:
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i.
Vivienne Rita
Caroline Marissa
Drake. |
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arms were designed
to show the
family's
relationship as
cadets of the
Drakes of Ashe,
Musbury, Devon
whose ancient arms
were Argent a
wyvern Gules. The
motto answers
theirs of Aquila
Non Captat Muscas. |
The
armiger has published
research indicating that
the Drakes of Ashe were
originally from
Warwickshire and
ultimately descended in
the male line from
Harold, feudal Lord of
Ewias Harold,
Herefordshire. Harold
was the son of Ralph,
preconquest Earl of
Hereford, and grandson
of Drogo, Count of
Mantes, who was
descended in the male
line from the ancient
Counts of Amiens and
Vexin.
American ancestry:
Richard Drake, of South
Petherton, Somerset,
bapt 1609. Departed
Bristol, Gloucester 1658
for Virginia. Issue
Mary, Thomas, and an
elder son:
John
Drake, bapt 3 May 1647,
South Petherton Parish,
Soms., to VA 1658,
married about 1670
Jemima Parnell, sister
of Thomas Parnell in
Isle of Wight County,
VA; died about 1690.
Issue Thomas, Richard,
and eldest son:
John
Drake, planter, born
about 1675, Isle of
Wight County, VA; died
1753, Southampton
County, VA. Issue seven
children including:
Barnaby
Drake, Sr, planter, born
about 1710, Isle of
Wight County, VA, died
1797, Southampton
County, VA; married Mary
Scott. Issue nine
children including the
eldest:
Exum
Drake, Sr, planter, born
about 1745; Southampton
County, VA; 10th
Regiment, North Carolina
Continental Line; died
after 1820, Georgia.
Issue at least three
sons, including the
eldest:
Richard
Drake, planter and
wheelwright, born
1774-5, Southampton
County, VA; died 1857,
Washington County, GA;
married 1803 Pherabah
Bryant, daughter of
Jonas Bryant,
Southampton County, VA.
Issue an only son:
Francis
Bryant Drake, planter
and wheelwright, born
1806, Nash County, NC,
died 1875, Johnson
County, GA; married 1828
Selina King, dau of John
King. Quondam LT GA
Militia, Esquire in the
Commission of the Peace,
elder of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Issue
eleven children,
including:
Robert
Lemuel Drake, farmer,
born 4 December 1849,
Washington County, GA;
married 1871 Elizabeth
Catherine Watson,
daughter of Joseph
Watson, Johnson County,
GA; died 1923 Toombs
County, GA. Issue eleven
children, including:
Claudus
Hinton Drake, farmer,
born 1891; married 1917
Alice Mabel Gordon
Murray, daughter of
Charles Axon Gordon
Murray; died 1965
Tattnall County, GA.
Issue seven children,
including an eldest son:
Charles
Hinton Drake, physician,
born 1918; recipient of
an English grant of arms
in 1984 (vide the
parallel entry), quandam
MAJOR USAF, Bronze Star,
Croix de Guerre,
despatches, educ Emory
University, Medical
College of Georgia (MD,
1951), married 1946
Estelle Carolyn Nail,
co-heiress of James
Benjamin Nail (vide
entry for Estelle C.
Nail), born 1918,
Tattnall County, GA and
has issue:
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i.
Charles Edward
Francis Drake, the
registrant. |
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ii.
Carol Louise
Drake, CPA, educ
Medical College of
Georgia (BSN,
1977, Magna Cum
Laude), Georgia
Southern
University (BAA,
1987, Magna Cum
Laude); member
American Institute
of Certified
Public
Accountants,
United Daughters
of the
Confederacy,
Daughters of the
American
Revolution. |
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