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Maried Zachary Hammett Drake in 1803. Memorial in St. Mathews Church in Lee Bay, North Devon, England: "In Memory of Frances Drake. Widow of Hammett Drake and daughter obeiress of Charles Newell Cutcliffe." Named in her father's will.
Source: Sir W.R. Drake, F.S.A., inhis "Notes and Notelets" complied in 1887, and is confirmed by the College of Arms (Appendix 'C').
Source also includes "The very Ancient Chruch of Ilfracombe", by Z.E.A. Wade, published by Twiss & Sons, 9, High Street, Ilfracombe about 1900.
lists birth as June 16, 1780.
"Frances Cutcliffe, the eldest daughter of Charles Newell Cutcliffe and Margaret Mervyn, was born 25th May 1780, and was married at Marwood 6th Oct. 1803, to my (William Richard Drake) father's brother, Zachary Hammett Drake then of Chapel, in the parish of Moorwinstow co. Cornwall, by subsequently of Springfield near Barnstaple, the eldest son of Henry Drake of Barnstaple, the eldest son of Henry Drake of Barnstaple, by Ann his wife, daughter of Richard Hammett of Clovelly, co. Devon. Mr. Drake was deputy-Lieutenant and in the Commission of the Peace for the counties of Devon and Cornwall. On the death of Mr. Drake's brother, Lieut-Colonel John Mervyn Cutcliffe in 1822, an arrangement was made ......seventh year of her age, honored and respected by all who had the privilege of her acquaintance. On the death of Mrs. Frances Drake she was succeeded in the Cutlciffe Estates by her Grandson, Charles Henry Drake-Cutcliffe, the eldest of the two sons of Charles Cutcliffe Drake of Springfield (Who died during his mother's lifetime), by Mary, daughter, and eventually, on the death of her sister Ann Cusack in 1867, the sole heir of Henry Cusack, of Girley, co. Meath, Ireland. Mr. Charles Cutcliffe Drake died 21 February 1870."