Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-04-29
The HERRICKS

been among our substantial. prosper
GU citizens. Generally farmers: dem
ocrats, nearly TO man: people who
attended to their own affairs and let
Others alone: honorable, honest, up
right people and kind, social neigh
bors. Good types OF the Old Ameri
can stock. Their lineage is a proud
one and extends far back in history.
AS far back as discovered when Eng
lish people usually We're minus sur
names, the name was Erick. Through
various TRANSITIONAL lions and the pre-
lily. of the Cockney H" it become
III leyricke, ETC., and in modern times,
Herrick, as we find it today.
/ 1t is traditional that the very an
cient family of the Bricks Einric
signifies ever rich and POWERFUL
descend from Erick, the Forester, a
great Commander, who raised an army
to oppose the invasion of William, the
Conqueror, 1866, by whom he was van
pushed: but was afterwards employed
. to command the forces of that Prince.
In his old age he returned to his home
in Leicestershire, where the family
were free tenants of their own land
two virgates, the fourth of hide,
about fifty acres, which they held on
the payment. OF an annual quit-rent
to the king of pound of pepper.
PEDIGREE
Eyrick, of Great Stretton, and of
Houghton, Leicester, in time of King
/ Henry III, l2l6-72, was a lineal de
scendant of Erick, the Forester, and
had sons, Alan and Henry
Henry Eyrick, of Great Strctton
3 John EyriclS of Stretton, had
children, Robert and Adelena. He died
March IS, 1885, aged
4 Robert Eyrck of Stretton: wife
Joanna: children William. Robert.
John, Adelena.
5 Sir William Eyrick, Knight, of
Stretton; was commissioned toattend
4 the Prince of Wales on an expedition
to Gascony, 1919.
6 Robert Eyrick of Houghton,
about 1850; wife Agnes. Ten children
of whom two We're Robert and
Thomas.
] Thomas Eyrick of Leicester, 1911
4 lie died lois. Will dated Aug. %, l5l1
mentions wife and children; Nicholas,
John: Elizabeth. He was buried in
ST. Martins Church, Leicester.
8 John Eyricll on IIeyrick b. l5l3
He and his Wife are buried in ST. Mar
/ tins Church, leicester
EPITApH
i Here lieth the body of John IIeyricls
late of the Parish, who departed his
life 2nd OF April 1883, being about the
age of 16. He did marry Marie, daugh-
ter Of John Bond of IIardende in the
Conntie Of Warwicke, Esquire, and
did live with the said Mary, in one
house, full tifty-two years: and in all
/ time, never buried man, woman or
1 child, though there We're sometimes
twenty in household. He had issue
! by said Marie, 5 Sonnes and I daugh-
ters. The said John was Mayor of
this Town in ammo 1859 and again in
ammo 1572. The said Marie departed
this life We Sth day of December 1911
being of the age of 81 years. She did
see before her departure, of her child
/ n I AL
their children to the number of l42
1t is said the ''II'' was prefiXed to
the name by the engraver of the
! grave stone.
| Their children, all born in a house
in the Market Place at the corner of
/ Cheapside, Leicester, where he was an
ironmonger, We're: Ursula, Agnes,
/ Robert; Mary, Nicholas, Elizabeth,
/ Helen, Thomas, Christiana, John,
/ William and Alice.
8 Sir William Heyricke, Knight b.
Leicester, 1918, m. at Church of st.
Thomas, the apostle, London May 6,
1896, Joan, daughter of Richard May,
Esq. of Maytield Sussex, and his wife,
Mary (1ilderson) of Devonshire, born
1858; sister of Hew May, Esq, groom
of the inner chamber of King James
| /. He went to London, 1874 to live
with his brother Nicolas a goldsmith
and banker In 1880 he purchased
Beaumanor Leicester from the Earl
of Essex, and in the same year became
d goldsmith and banker: his address
| being Gooldsmyth, at the Rose in
Cheapside. He was attached to the
Court of Queen Elizabeth, by whom
he was sent ambassador to the Otto
man Porte, and on his return was APP
| pointed to a lucrative Office in the Ex-
chequer. NJ. p, 1901 20. Knighted by
King James L., June |, 1905. In 1913
he had a house in Wood street, also
one in Richmond and anotherin West
minister and resided considerably at