| |
|
We Served, We Settled
Patriots and Pioneers - The legacies of the Shane and Beck families
|
 |
|
 Abt 1475 - 1529 (~ 54 years)
-
| Name |
Prowse, Robert [1] |
| Birth |
Abt 1475 [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Aug 1529 [1] |
| Person ID |
I2329 |
Shane and Beck |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Father |
Prowse, John, b. 1436, Chagford, Devon, England  d. 1526, Chagford, Devon, England (Age 90 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Orchard, Joan, b. 1458, Chagford, Devon, England d. 1480 (Age 22 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1479 [2] |
| Family ID |
F910 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
-
| Notes |
- 38. ROBERT PROWSE, b. ca. 1475, dead 6 Aug. 1529, founder of the Tiverton,Devon, branch was named as yr. son of John & Joan in Pole's "Description'. His Prowse shield of arms, with 4th son's martlet for difference, hung in St. Peter's Church, Tiverton, where he and his unnamed wife are buried, according to will of his yr. son Robert. Henry VIII's general pardon, at his accession, named Robert Sr. as of Chevythorn Manor. The lord of this until 1545 was Philip Champernown, whose dau. mothered Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. The overlord was the Earl of Westmorland. Robert was feoffee of a Tiverton charitable trust, which revealed his death ante 1529. He paid tax on "goods" totalling ; £70 in Chagford, Tiverton, and Kenton
1524. Robert's granddaughter was Richarda Prowse Gifford, Lady of Tiverton Castle. A deed to a Chevythorn parcel of land, 1589, revealed that her grandfather was "Robert, son of John Prowse of Chagford'. Richarda's bro. George Prowse of Wellington, Somerset, signed the Visitation pedigree with Prowse quarterings down to Orchard, inclusive. (Cal. Pat. R. 8 Hen. 8.; The Gen., cit., p. 12).
|
-
| Sources |
- [S210] Weis, Frederick L, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who came to America before 1700, (Name: Genealogical Publishing Co; Location: Baltimore MD; Date: 2004;), Line 246G-38.
- [S210] Weis, Frederick L, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who came to America before 1700, (Name: Genealogical Publishing Co; Location: Baltimore MD; Date: 2004;), Line 246G-37.
|
|
|
|
