Reverend Archdeacon Stephen Creyke
(1796-1883)
14 August 1861
Volume 5, page 2, sitting number 5509.
Born on 13 October 1796 at Stonehouse (Plymouth) in Devon, his father was Richard Creyke, the Resident Commissioner of the Victualling of Plymouth. Stephen was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became an Anglican clergyman and held the livings of Beeford and, subsequently, of Bolton Percy. From 1845 to 1866 he was the Archdeacon of York.
On 6 September 1823 at York he married Sarah Hotham, eldest daughter of the late Colonel George Hotham of York. Their marriage produced six children.
In 1871 he and his wife Sarah were living at the Rectory in Bolton Percy with their son Walter Pennington Creyke, his wife Caroline and one granddaughter. Also present on the night of the census were a governess and nine servants, including a butler and a footman.
The Venerable Stephen Creyke died on 11 December 1883 at Bolton Percy Rectory in Yorkshire. He left an estate valued at £127,346.
‘The Ven. Stephen Creyke, M.A., Rector of Bolton Percy, Prebend and late Archdeacon of York, died at his rectory on the 11th inst., in his eight-eighth year. He was youngest son of Captain Richard Creyke, R.N., Governor of the Royal Naval Hospital, whose father – the Rev. John Creyke, of Burleigh-on-the-Hill – was a second son of the very ancient Yorkshire family of Creyke, of Marton, which is traced back to Sir Walter de Creyke, Governor of Berwick in 1340. At the age of seventeen the Archdeacon competed successfully for a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 1816 graduated first-class in Literis Humanioribus. He was ordained in 1819, made Canon of York Cathedral in 1841, appointed Archdeacon of York in 1847, and in 1865 (after having held successively the livings of Wigginton, Sutton-on-the-Forest, and Beeford) was presented to the Rectory of Bolton Percy. He married, Sept. 6, 1823, Sarah, daughter of Colonel George Hotham, and by her (who died in 1879) leaves Walter Pennington and other issue’ (Illustrated London News, 22 December 1883).
[From an album compiled by George Robert Denison.]