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n. (plural of weeke English)
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Weekes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Hailey Weekes (born 2003), Australian model
- Ambrose Weekes (1919–2012), British priest, bishop of Gibraltar
- Anthony Weekes, English Member of Parliament in 1563
- Claire Weekes (1903–1990), Australian general practitioner and health writer
- Dallon Weekes (born 1981), American musician, singer, and songwriter.
- Dan Weekes-Hannah (born 1987), New Zealand-born actor
- Donald Weekes (born 1930), former English cricketer
- Elias Weekes (1809–1881), Australian ironmonger and politician
- Sir Everton Weekes (born 1925), leading former West Indian cricketer
- Hampton Weekes (1880–1948), English priest who was Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
- Harold Weekes (1880–1950), American football player
- Henry Weekes (1807–1877), English sculptor of the mid-Victorian period
- Herbert William Weekes (fl. 1864–1904), English genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period
- James Weekes (1911–1977), American sailor and Olympic champion
- Ken Weekes (1912–1998), West Indian cricketer
- Kevin Weekes (born 1975), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Lesroy Weekes (born 1971), West Indian cricketer who played for the Leeward Islands and English counties
- Liz Weekes (born 1971), Australian water polo player and Olympic champion
- Nick Weekes (born 1981), former English cricketer
- Paul Weekes (born 1969), former English cricketer
- Randy Weekes (born 1956), Canadian politician
- William Weekes (died 1806), lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada
Usage examples of "weekes".
Thomas Weekes had provided his granddaughter with no more than the bare necessities of a bedroom, trusted none of his curiosities to her.
Name Nelly Weekes, unmarried, age about twenty or more, short, well made, slight, dark hair worn long, grey eyes, considered pretty, nervous manner.
You'd better go through everybody in the place for evidence of two strangers being seen with Weekes or granddaughter or round about.
Then Weekes is murdered and his house is ransacked and no papers are left in it.
Natural inference, the crime was committed to obliterate the Weekes - Coole secret: that is, by people who knew there was one and had an interest in it.
It's incredible an educated man should think he could make an end of it by murdering Weekes and stealing his private papers.
The late Weekes had a parrot, stuffed only, nevertheless a parrot, and a model of a ship.
Frayne's never been seen with Weekes and nobody saw him on the day of the murder.
I asked 'em to send out there and, if Frayne or Coole or Nelly Weekes is found, detain 'em.
I made some inquiries and found that Weekes was an old sailor living with a granddaughter.
This morning I read in the papers with horror that Weekes had been murdered in his cottage.
He was hardly coherent, but I gathered that he had discovered the existence of Weekes and the granddaughter and gone to the old man's cottage to make terms with him.
The unfortunate Weekes told him the girl had gone away and jeered at him, told him his father had meant to leave him a beggar - I'll not repeat the sailor's language.
I pointed out that there was nothing left for him to do but confess to the police he had killed Weekes and explain what had driven him to do it.
A few months ago Weekes paid in a cheque for five thousand pounds from Wolseley Coole.