Thomas Dowrish, II

A "Dowrich" family has been associated with Sandford from circa 1200 to 1717.2 Arms: Argent a bend cotised sable a label of three points and a border engr. of the last.3 Thomas Dowrish Esq. was descended from Nicholas Dowrish, living 41 Henry III. 1256.3 He was of Dowrish House at Sandford, Devonshire, England.1,4 He was born circa 1532 at Sandford, Devonshire, England.5,4 He married Anne Farringdon, daughter of Charles Farringdon and Margery Stuckley.1,4 Thomas Dowrish Esq. died in 1590 at England.4

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Thomas Dowrish (1522–1590), eldest son and heir, who married Anne Farringdon, daughter of Charles Farringdon[16] lord of the manor of Farringdon, near Clyst St Mary, Devon, by his wife Margery Affeton, daughter of Sir Thomas Stukely (1473–1542) lord of the manor of Affeton, Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1521.[17] His children included:

Walter Dowrish, eldest son and heir, see below. Rev. Hugh Dowrish, second son, Rector of Lapford and Honiton, whose wife was Anne Edgecombe[18] (born before 1560–1596) a poet and historian, a daughter of Sir Richard Edgecombe of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall. A small painted heraldic escutcheon representing this marriage survives, among other similar ones, on the wooden cornice in the hall[19] of Dowrich House, and shows the arms of Dowrich (Argent, a bend cotised sable a bordure engrailed of the last[20]%29 impaling Edgcumbe (Gules, on a bend ermine cottised or three boar's heads couped argent).[21] Elizabeth Dowrish (died 1587),[22] the wife of John Northcote (died 1587) of Crediton and mother of John Northcote (1570–1632) of Uton and Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, lord of the manor of Newton St Cyres, whose splendid life-size standing effigy and monument survives in Newton St Cyres Church. Either he or his identically named son (Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676), ancestor of the Earls of Iddesleigh) was Sheriff of Devon in 1626. __________________________________________________________