Grace Gye

Robert Gye Gent. held lands in Poughill, at Upcott in Cherlton FitzPaine, and in Kingsbridge at Devonshire, England.

He was of Dodderidge or Prowse at Sandford, Devonshire.

Robert was 5 when his father died.

He married N. N. Mortymer, daughter of James Mortymer, at Devonshire.

He sued release, per chancery proceedings, of the rectory of West Allington (lying just north of Kingsbridge in south Devon) to him and to John, his father, since deceased in 1554. He was styled as "Gent." in the will of James Mortymer of Sandford who had appointed him trustee in 1558.

He married Grace Dowrish, daughter of Thomas Dowrish Esq. and Anne Farringdon, at England.

Robert Gye Gent. was involved in chancery suits and in fines of the common pleas with James Courtenay of Upcott, Esq., circa 1600 at later part of Elizabeth I's reign. He brought suit against Radford Maverick in the Court of Requests, alleging that Grace Dowrish's father "gave great sums to Radford Maverick to bring up his daughter Mary, and that Maverick bestowed her in marriage to John Maverick, his cousin german."

Robert died between 1604 and 1608, before 29 September 1608 in England. He died before Michaelmas.

Manor at Prowse. The Prowse property & Dowrish House were next to one another.

Sources:

• 'Ancestral Roots Of Certain American Colonist Who Came To America Before 1700', 7th Edition. AncestryImage
• New England Historic & Genealogical Register, vols. #1, 1845

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Grace died intestate when her daugher Mary was very young.

We are indebted to Wendy (Gwendolyn Jean Edmands) Pearson for research in this line.

See My Lines (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p282.htm#i23283)

from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA

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Note: Some Geni trees call her "Miss Mortimer".