JOHN GYE

(b. circa 1470) - Kingsbridge, Devonshire, England Many other properties in Devonshire, England

(First Generation - Gye Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN


LEGAL MENTION This generation of the Gye family is often overlooked. However, proof of the couple stems from an Inquisition post mortem of one Nicholas Spencer, Esq. of Devonshire, held on 1 November 1508:
"Edmund Spencer had wife Joan; he died in Jany 1497/8; his relict Joan died Jany. 1499/1500. Their daughter is Elizabeth, now wife of John Guy; she is of age thirty years and more. In 1497 Edmund had three sons at school: Robert, Nicholas, and Richard; and three daughters: Joan, Isabel and Elizabeth. Nicholas, the heir of Edmund, has now died and his heir is Elizabeth Guy, his sister, afsd. The next presentation to the advowson of the church of Crowcomb, and lands in Plympton, Dunston, Dynnesbeare, Northcote, Possebury, Trefelbe, Bradlaugh, Bremeridge, East & West Putford, Bridweldene, and Newton Bushell, are of the inheritance of the said Nicholas."
(Cal. of Inq.P.M. ... Henry VIII, vol. 3, p. 343-345, no. 573; vol. 2, p. 103-104, no. 153)[1].

In the Chancery Proceedings about 1500 there is a record of John Guy and Elizabeth his wife, and their suit against Edward Prendergast and Thomasyne his wife regarding deeds as to the manors of Possebury, Treselbe, Bridwildene, Bradelaugh, Kyrton (i.e. Crediton&341; and Putowrth, all located in Devonshire, England. (G. Brit. Public Record Office. Lists and Indexes, vol. 20, p. 196)[1].

BIRTH John may have been born circa 1470, based on his son John's estimated 1490 date of birth.
OTHER FAMILY? John perhaps had a brother named Robert. There is mention of a Robert Gye serving as Portreeve of Kingsbridge, Devonshire, England in 1491[3] and as Warden of St. Edmund's Church in Kingsbridge in 1475[3].
MARRIAGE John married Elizabeth SPENCER, daughter of Edmund SPENCER & Joan [surname not known].

CHILDREN 2. i. John GYE Please see his own page.




GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G12) Grandfather (twice)
FAMILY NUMBER 29,864 (Elias Maverick) and 29,992 (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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