[NEHGR 69:146-159] John Mavericke, clerk, baptized at Awliscombe co Devon, 28 Dec 1578, died at Dorchester Mass 3 Feb 1635/6. Married at Islington Co Devon 28 October 1600 Mary Gye who was living in New England as late as 9 Oct 1666.

[NEHGR 115:248-252] MG board probably about 1580, was very young when her mother Grace (Dowrish) Gye died suddenly without making a will. She was the youngest daughter named in the inquisition on her brother George and according to the indenture quoted in it was to receive 80 pounds as each of her older sistes did.

[6155] Grace Dowrish

[NEHGR 115:248-252] Robert Gye, Gent., evidently the son of Robert (below) was in the later part of the reign of Elizabeth I, involved in chancery suits and in fines of the common pleas, with James Courtenay of Upcott, Esq. This litigation concerned lands at Upcott settled by Thomas Prowse in 1509 on Mary Prowse at her Marriage to John Gye, patently this Robert's ancestors. He died probably between 1604 abd 1608.

He was of Prowse, or Higher Dodderidge, in Sandford, and held lands also in Poughill nearby, at Upcott in Cheriton FitzPaine, and in Kingsbridge, south Devon, where his family had been seated as early as the fourteenth century.

He married twice. By the first wife, name unknown, he had a son and heir, Thomas of Poughill, gent,. who seems to have diied between 1615 and 1624, leaving a daughter Jane. By his second wife, Grace Dowrish, daugther of Thomas Dowrish of Dowrish Esq, he had eleven children who were living in 1587: Gilbert, Edmund, John, Walter, Peter, George, Robert, Johan, Jane, Anne and Mary.

[12309] -- Mortimer

[NEHGR 115:248-252] Robert Gye of Dodderidge, or Prowse, in Sandford. In 1588 he was styled "gent" in the will of James Mortymer of Sandford, who appointed him his trustee. It is possible that RG's wife may have been a daughter of James Mortimer of Poughill, sicne in 1622, a RG was styled as cousin of Jane Mortimer of Poughill.

[24617] Mary Prowse

[NEHGR 115:248-252] Mary Prowse who, in 1509, by a marriage settlement, brought to her husband, John Gye, lands called "Upcott" in Cheriton FitzPaine, near Poughill. In 1516, she and her husband calimed the lands of Thomas Prowse (apparently her father) in Poughill, Dodderidge, Islington and elsewhere. Her husband was dead by 1554 and perhaps as early as 1529.