Person:John Rowe (4)

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John Rowe
b.Abt 1574
d.1652
m. Abt 1572
  1. Mary RoweAbt 1572 -
  2. John RoweAbt 1574 - 1652
  3. Elizabeth Rowe1575/76 - 1673
  4. Martha RoweAbt 1578 -
  5. Eulalia Rowe1581/82 -
  6. Priscilla Rowe1583/84 -
  7. Robert Rowe1586 -
  8. Nicholas Rowe1589 - 1634
m. Abt 1599
  1. Francis RoweAbt 1600 - 1665
  2. Elizabeth RoweAbt 1603 -
  3. Agnes RoweAbt 1605 -
  4. Robert RoweAbt 1606 -
  5. John RoweAbt 1607 - 1661/62
  6. Nicholas RoweAbt 1609 - 1668
  7. Gertrude RoweAbt 1611 - 1641/42
  8. Joseph RoweAbt 1613 -
  9. Mary Rowe1615 - 1641
  10. Thomasine RoweAbt 1617 -
Facts and Events
Name John Rowe
Gender Male
Birth[5] Abt 1574
Christening[1] 10 Feb 1573/74 Lamerton, Devon, England
Marriage Abt 1599 based on age of oldest child
to Elizabeth Moore
Residence[2] 1641 Lamerton, Devon, EnglandSigned the 1641 Protestation
Death[6] 1652
Burial[6] 20 Jun 1652 Lamerton, Devon, England
Probate[3] Aug 1653 Will proved
References
  1. Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick). The visitations of the county of Devon: comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. (Exeter: For the author by H.S. Eland, 1895).

    Children of Nicholas Rowe of Lamerton and Agnes Fytz
    John Rowe of Tavistock, bap 10 Feb 1573-4 at Lamerton
    m. Elizabeth, dau of Robert Moore of Moore, Devon, Esq., (see Moore ped. P. 574)

  2. Howard, A. J., editor and transcriber The Devon Protestation Returns 1641. Introduction and Index by T. L. Sloate. © A. J. Howard, 1973. West Country Studies Library, Exeter, Devon, England.

    p. iii – all male inhabitants over the age of 18 [b. 1623 or earlier] were required to sign – refusal was taken to indicate recusancy; failure to sign could also result from sickness or absence, esp. absence at sea in coastal parishes
    p. 371, Parish of Lamerton, Hundred of Lifton
    Rowe, Francis
    Rowe, George
    Rowe, John
    Rowe, John jun.
    Rowe, Robert

  3. Will of John Rowe, Gentleman of Lampton, Devon; The National Archives, Prob/11/228/461.

    Extracted notes:
    John Rowe of Lam[*]ton in ____ Devon gentleman
    to Elizabeth my most loving wife: tenements in Lamerton and Tavistock for 30 years; oxen, yearlings, my armour and books, much more
    to my sonne John Rowe: 10£ yearly during his lifetime, to be paid quarterly
    to Elizabeth Rowe and Thomasina Rowe my daughters: land and pasture
    to John Rowe, son of Nicholas Rowe
    to Elizabeth my sister
    to Martha my sister
    to Nicholas Rowe: land for 300 years
    Proved __ August 1653

    *Lamerton is sometimes written missing the "er" in the middle but with a large "E" above. As a result, the will is filed in the National Archives as being from Lampton, however, the text of the will makes it clear that it is for John Rowe of Lamerton.

  4.   Rowe, Kenneth Allyn. Research in Rowe Research. Virginia Rowe, Danvers/Salem, Massachusetts, 1980.

    p. 3 – A Rowe tree from Tavistock begins with Ever(h)ard Rowe of 1190 and goes down to Grace Rowe Newman, g. dau of Rev. S. Baring-Gould of Lewtrenchard, Devon who wrote “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “Now the Day is Over”. It includes John Rowe of Gloucester.
    p. 88 – Sir Everhard Rowe of Lamerton was granted his coat of arms by Richard Lionheart in 1190 for service in the Crusades
    p. 4 - Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) the poet laureate, author of Tamerlane, was 1st to put Shakespeare’s plays into acts and scenes, bur. In Westminster Abbey next to Shakespeare, was grand-nephew of “my” Rowe
    p. 7 – Pedigree:
    Sir Everhard Rowe
    Sir Peter Rowe
    Richard Rowe (1327) m. Mary Rurde
    Robert Rowe
    Sir William m. Maria Vivian………….. John m. Mary Dennys
    John Rowe sgt-at-law…………….…...John Rowe
    m. Agnes Barnhouse ………………….m. Anna Greville
    ……………………………………….….this line continues to Gloucester Rowes
    p. 15 – the stone lintel in Great Haye/Rowe Manor House shows the coats of arms of Rowe and Moore Families for John Rowe of Tavistock (1574-1653) m. c. 1599 Elizabeth Moore (15??-1654) of Moore, Tavistock, whose son John settled in Gloucester after living in Salem and Duxbury
    p. 40 – the Moores were related to the Paulets, who were part of the Vincent family

    Great Haye, Lamerton
    Great Haye is a farmhouse of early 17th Century construction. It is a Grade II listed Heitage Building. (ID. 93918, Longitude/Latitude: 50.5828, -4.1932)

  5. Colby, Frederick Thomas. The Visitation of The County of Devon In the Year 1620, London, 1872
    p. 248.

    John Rowe of Tavistock, aged 46 in 1620
    m. Elizabeth dau of Robert Moore in Devon Esq

  6. 6.0 6.1 Plymouth Deaths & Burials, in England. Birth, Marriage and Death (Parish Registers). (Plymouth and West Devon Record Office Collection).

    John Rowe ye Elder Gent
    d. 1652
    buried 22 Jun 1652, Lamerton, Devon, England