Oliver Mainwaring, Gent.

Biography

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Oliver Mainwaring, Gentleman of Exeter, Sowton and Dawlish, Devon, is the son of Oliver Mainwaring and Margaret Torbock. He was referred to as being about 79 in 1666, so we can place his birth at about 1587.[1]

In 1618, he married Prudence Esse, daughter of Henry, Gentleman of Sowton, Devon, and Loveday, daughter of Richard Moyle of St. Austle, Cornwall.[1]

They had several sons, including

1. Christopher,
2. Esse,
3. Oliver,
4. William and
5. Richard, and three daughters,
6. Anne,
7. Prudence, and
8. Loveday.

He was heir in 1634 to his uncle, Christopher Mainwaring, Esq. His wife, Prudence, was buried at Dawlish, Devon 1 Oct. 1643. Oliver Mainwaring, Gent., died 14 March 1672/3, and was buried at Dawlish, Devon.[1][2]

Oliver's three brothers all entered a Catholic seminary. Oliver, it appears, was the sole exception.[2]

Oliver became heir to his father's older brother, Christopher Mainwaring in 1634, when Christopher died without issue and with no will.[1]

He passed away on March 14, 1672/3, and was buried at Dawlish, Devon.[1]

Sources

1. Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Pages 653-7
2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume III, page 129, < GoogleBooks >
3. Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013) Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume IV, pages 27, 28.
4. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700 (8th edition, 2004), Weis, Frederich Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), Line 217A.
5. Dobson, John B. "The Ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring: The Paternal Line." Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. University of Winnipeg, 2 July 2014. Web. 20 Feb. 2015. uwinnipeg.ca.
6. Foley, Henry. Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus: Historic Facts Illustrative of the Labours and Sufferings of Its Members in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Burns and Oates, 1877. Print. archive.org
7. Stevens, Anne S. "Oliver Mainwaring (1587 - 1673) - Find A Grave Memorial #105029791." Find A Grave. Findagrave.com, 13 Feb. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2015. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105029791>.