Robert GYE

Male Abt 1531 - 1608  (77 years)


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  • Name Robert GYE  [1, 2
    • He was married for the first time (with one son) to an unidentified wife, and for the second time about 1555 to Grace Dowrish, daughter of Thomas Dowrish, of Dowrish House in Sandford, Devon, by Anne, daughter of Charles Farringdon, of Farringdon, Devon. They had eleven children. She died intestate when her daughter Mary was very young. According to allegations in a suit of Robert Gye against Radford Maverick in 1604 in the Court of Requests, her father "gave great sums to Radford Maverick to bring up his daughter Mary, and that Maverick bestowed her in Marriage to John Maverick, his cousin german." [1]
    Birth Abt 1531  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 1604-1608  [1, 2
    Person ID I82477  Main Tree
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2018 

    Father John GYE   d. 14 Aug 1536 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Mary PROWSE 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1509  Marriage Settlement Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F37474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Grace DOWRISH 
    Marriage Abt 1555  [1
    Children 
    +1. Mary GYE,   b. Abt 1580   d. Aft 1666 (Age 87 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F33645  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2018 

  • Sources 
    1. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.