JOHN GYE

(circa 1490 - 1538/9) - possibly Dodderidge or Sanford, Devonshire, England

(First Generation - Gye Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN



BIRTH John may have been born circa 1490, based on his 1509 marriage date and assuming it was his first marriage and he married around age 20.
DEATH John died circa 1538/9 [29-30 Henry VIII], when his Inquisition post mortem was held to determine his land holdings after his death[1].
RESIDENCE His son, Robert, was born in either Dodderidge or Sanford, Devonshire, England.
MARRIAGE In 1509, he married Mary PROWSE, daughter of Thomas PROWSE & Jane BAYTUN.

CHILDREN 2. i. Mary GYE Please see her own page.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G11) Grandfather (twice)
FAMILY NUMBER 14,932 (Elias Maverick) and 14,996 (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 261-43.

2. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 115:248-253.

3. [WeisAR7], line 261-44.

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

5. [NEHGR], 69:153.

6. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig.], II:1242.

7. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

8. [NEHGR], ??(April 1915):153.

9. Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1-14, (Boston, 1880-1906), [SLR], 4:328.

10. [NEHGR], 7:750-1.

11. Mary & John, vols. 1+, (Toledo, OH: Mary & John Clearinghouse), [MaryJohn], ??:29.

12. [NEHGR], 7:753; 69:153; 43:326, 49:214, 50:75, 69:153, 96:232.

13. Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner, 5 vols., (Boston, Mass.: 1949, 1955), typescript, [Warner-Harrington], 440.

14. Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1959), [Farr Anc.], 197.

15. Titcomb, Sarah Elizabeth, Early New England People: Some Account of the Ellis, Pemberton, Willard, Prescott, Titcomb, Sewall and Longfellow, and Allied Families, (Boston: W.B. Clarke & Caruth, 1882), [Titcomb], 245.

16. Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin David, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Portland, ME: Anthosensen Press 1928-1939; rpt Baltimore: Gen. Publ. Co., 1972), [GDMNH], 470.

17. Underhill, Lora Altine, Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the Allied Families, (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1910), [Small], 2:670-1.

18. Fish Frances Webster, Ancestry of Frances Webster Fish, (Oakland, CA: 1923), typescript, [FishAnc].

19. Holman, Mary Lovering, The Scott Genealogy, (Boston, MA: 1919), [Scott (1919)], 185.

20. Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines; Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford: Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, Collected by Their Son, Raymon Meyers Tingley, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935), [Tingley-Meyers], 233.

21. Fuess, Elizabeth Goodhue, Cushing and Allied Families, (Andover, Mass., 1931), typescript, [Cushing (Ms)], 308.

22. Cresswell, Beatrix F., The Mavericks of Devonshire and Massachusetts, (Exeter: James Gen. Commin, 1929), [Maverick], 40.

23. [MaryJohn], ??:46.




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