Person:Thomas Dowse (3)

Children

Children of THOMAS^C Dowse, all baptisms at Kings Somborne:

1. ANNE DOWSE, b. say 1592; named before sister Dorothy in the 1625 will of their brother Cuthbert.
2. ALICE DOWSE, bp. 24 Feb. 1594/5. Not mentioned in the 1625 will of her brother Cuthbert.
3. THOMAS8 DOWSE, bp. 24 Feb. 1595/6; m. MARY GARDINER.
4. CUTHBERT DOWSE, bp. 18 Feb. 1598/9 (as "Cutbard"). As Cutbert Dowse, merchant tailor of London, he left a will dated 8 Aug. 1625, proved 1 Feb. 1626/81 naming brothers Thomas, Tristram, and Anthony, and sisters Anne and Dorothy . Brother Anthony was to be executor.
5. TRISTRAM DOWSE, bp. 5 June 1600; named in the 1625 will of his brother Cuthbert.
6. DOROTHY DOWSE, bp. 8 Oct. 1601; named in the 1625 will of her brother .. Cuthbert.
7. ANTHONY DOWSE, bp. 19 March 1602/3; named in the 1625 will of his brother Cuthbert. He was perhaps the Anthony Dowse, citizen and haberdasher of London, who left a will dated 7 April 1672, proved 13 April 1672 naming sons John, Samuel, Thomas, and Obadiah Dowse; unmarried daughters Mary and Sarah Dowse; daughter Rebeccah Sydenham; Francis Sydenham; son-in-law Thomas Bowler; brother-in-law John Spicer; brother-in-law John Waylett; sister-in-law Anne Waylett; Mr. Edmund Paxton; sister Margaret Freeston; dear loving wife Elizabeth Dowse (to be sole executrix); loving kinsman Mr.Thomas Bassett.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Martin Hollick, "The English Origins of Elizabeth Dowse, wife of Governor Samuel Allen of New Hampshire," , in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   162:164-73., 2008.

   link THOMAS^C Dowse was born say 1570, probably in Hampshire. He was buried at Kings Somborne, Hampshire, on 15 September 1625 as Mr. Thomas Dowse, gent. The name of his wife is unknown.