Genealogy Wylie » Robert Gye , of Prowse, Esq (± 1531-< 1608)

Personal data Robert Gye , of Prowse, Esq 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Household of Robert Gye , of Prowse, Esq

He is married to Grace Dowrish.

They got married about 1555 at 2nd wife.Sources 1, 3


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Gye  ± 1580-> 1666 


Notes about Robert Gye , of Prowse, Esq

Robert Gye, Gent., was involved in the reign of Elizabeth I, in Chancerysuits and fines of the common pleas courts with James Courtenay ofUpcott, Esq. This litigation concerned lands at Upcott settled by ThomaProwse in 1509 on Mary Prowse at her marriage to John Gye. He probablydied between 1604 and 1608. Robert was of Prowse or Higher Dodderidge, inSandford, and held lands also in Poughill, nearby, at Upcott in CharltonFitzpaine and in Kingbridge, south Devon, where the family had beenseated since the fourteenth century. He married twice. By the first wifewhose name has not been discovered, he had a son and heir; and in alltwelve shildren. (Westward Ho from Massachusetts Bay to Oklahoma)

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Gye

Thomas Prowse
± 1475-1516
Joan Baynton
± 1480-????
John Gye
± 1500-1536
Mary Prowse
< 1502-± 1561

Robert Gye
± 1531-< 1608

± 1555

Grace Dowrish
± 1552-> 1581

Mary Gye
± 1580-> 1666

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Sources

  1. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS, 166
  2. The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993, 295
  3. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS, 166
  4. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 261-43
  5. The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993, 295

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