GARCE DOWRISH

(died 1603/4) - Sandford, Devonshire, England

(Second Generation - Dowrish Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
THOMAS DOWRISH, ESQ.
ANNE FARRINGDON



DEATH Grance died suddenly in 1603 or 1604, before she could make her will[2].
RESIDENCE They lived at the manor at Prowse in Sandford, Devonshire, England[2]. The Prowse property and Dowrish House were next to one another.
MARRIAGE Circa 1555, Grace married Robert GYE, gent.[7], son of John GYE & Mary PROWSE[8].

CHILDREN (surnamed GYE) i. Gilbert GYE
ii. Edmund GYE
iii. John GYE
iv. Walter GYE
v. Peter GYE
vi. George GYE
vii. Robert GYE
viii. Johan or Joan GYE
ix. Jane GYE
x. Anne GYE
xi. Mary GYE Please see her own page.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G10) Grandmother twice
FAMILY NUMBER 7467 (via Elias Maverick) and 7499 (via Moses Maverick)
SOURCES 1. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came To America Before 1700, 7th Edition With Additions & Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.), [WeisAR7], line 261-42.

2. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 115:248.

3. Ibid. 115:248-253.

4. Vivian, J.L. Lieutenant-Colonel, The Visitations of the County of Devon. Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620. With Additions By Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Vivian (Exeter, Eng.: For the Author by Henry S. Eland), [Vivian], 290,292,339,340.

5. [NEHGR], 115:248-9.

6. [WeisAR7], line 261-43.

7. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993), [RoyalDescent], 295.

8. [NEHGR], 122:282.

9. [WeisAR7], line 231-43.

10. [NEHGR], 115:249.

11. Ibid. 115:251.

12. Ibid. 115:250.

13. [WeisAR7], line 261-44.

14. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Colonial Clergy of New England, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), [WeisCCNE], 137.




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