On 23 August 1815, he married his cousin, Mary Alice Sitwell (–1816), a daughter of his maternal uncle
Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet and, his first wife, Alice Parke (a daughter of
Thomas Parke of Highfield House, West Derby, Liverpool and sister to
Baron of the Exchequer,
James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale). She died, without issue, less than a year later on 3 February 1816. Another brother, John Tait, married their first cousin, Mary Amelia Sitwell (daughter of
Francis Sitwell, MP for
Berwick-upon-Tweed and Ann Campbell). Together, they were the parents of: • Charles Wake (1824–1890), an Admiral in the
Royal Navy; he married Emma St. Aubyn, daughter of
Sir Edward St. Aubyn, 1st Baronet and Emma
Knollys (sister to Gen. Sir
William Knollys), in 1860. • Drury Wake (1827–1891), a barrister who married Louisa Julia Harriet Nethercote, daughter of
Henry Osmond Nethercote and Charlotte Frances Allix, in 1874. • Herwald Craufurd Wake (1829–1901), who married his first cousin, Charlotte Lucy Hurt Sitwell, a daughter of
Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet and Susan Murray Tait, in 1860. • Edward Baldwin Wake (1833–1883), a Lt.-Col. in the
21st Hussars; he married Mary Mangles, daughter of
Ross Donnelly Mangles and Harriet Newcome, in 1861. After her death, he married Ellen Mary Nethercote, also a daughter of
Henry Osmond Nethercote and Charlotte Frances Allix, in 1871. Sir Charles died on 23 February 1864 at age 72 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son,
William. ==Notes==