Colonel Gerard Fowke

201. Gerard Fowke; Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to King Charles I; Colonel in the British (sic, English) Army; escaped to Virginia after the Battle of Worcester in 1651; died in Maryland in 1669. Besides plantations in Virginia, he owned "Gunston", "Cedar Hill", "Hill Top" and other places near Namjemoy and Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland.

Col. Gerard Fowke was the Gentleman of the Bedchamber for King Charles I and Colonel of Horse in the Royalist Army that was privately funded by him and other royals. Upon immigrating to America he was elected Burgess of Charles County Maryland.

Family

• Father: Roger Fowke, Esq
• Mother: Mary Bayley

He immigrated to Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1654.

It seems he was twice married.

By the first marriage (name of wife unknown) was:

• Gerard, of whom there is no further record.
• Jean, who married a Mercer.

He married in 1661 Anne Thoroughgood, widow of Job Chandler and daughter of Capt Adam Thoroughgood, Gent, in 1661.

They had four children and removed themselves to Charles County, Maryland:

• 301. Adam, died young.
• 302. Elizabeth, married William Dent, "an eminent lawyer of Namjemoy."
• 303. Gerard, born in 1662 or 63, married Sarah Burdett of Charles County, Maryland, in 1686. Dr. Horner (1822) states that he married a Miss Lomax, and that he "was told so by Mrs. McGruder and Mrs. Alexander;" but no other mention of this marriage has been found.
• 304. Mary, married George Mason of Virginia. George Mason, author of "Virginia Bill of Rights," and James M. Mason of the Civil War period, were among her descendants.

He died shortly before 30 Oct 1669 when his widow Anne was granted administration of his estate.[1][2]

References:

* Dorman, III/328-330

* ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edition 2011, Vol II, page 227

• "Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson, 2013, Vol. III. p. 14
• Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families Abbreviation: Magna Carta Ancestry Author: Richardson, Douglas Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 2005
• Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5 Fourth Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
• "International Genealogical Index (IGI)," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M5WB-XJ3 : accessed 2015-03-14), entry for COL. Gerard Fowke.
• House of Moncure Genealogy Title: House of Moncure Genealogy, Catalogue #67-28800 Author: Marion Moncure Duncon and Adrian Cather, Peyton Sagendorf Moncure Miller Publication: N.p.: The Library of Congress, 1967. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#83 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: A Third Set of Ten Hollywood Figures . . .", www.americanancestors.org/third-set-of-ten-hollywood, (accessed 10/11/2014).
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 197.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 438.
• Hayden, Horace Edwin. Virginia genealogies: a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia : also of the families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and others, of Virginia and Maryland, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891, pp. 155-156, Hathi Trust, accessed 20 November 2019
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