Richard Prowse: NH genealogy

Nielsen Hayden genealogy

Abt 1407 - Aft 1449 (~ 43 years)

Generation: 1

Richard Prowse was born about 1407 in of Chagford, Devon, England (son of John Prowse and Agnes Bamfield); died after 1449.

Notes:

The 1564 visitation of Devon puts a "William Prows" between the Richard Prowse who married Margaret Norton and the John Prowse who married Agnes Bamfield. To our knowlwdge, no other source does this.

Richard married Margaret Norton about 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

John Prowse was born about 1436 in of Chagford, Devon, England; died on 24 Sep 1526.

Generation: 2

2.	John Prowse was born about 1377 in of Chagford, Devon, England (son of John Prowse and Maud Cruwys); died after 1446. John married Agnes Bamfield about 1406. Agnes (daughter of Thomas Bamfield and Agnes Coplestone) was born between 1377 and 1386; died after 1434. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes Bamfield was born between 1377 and 1386 (daughter of Thomas Bamfield and Agnes Coplestone); died after 1434.

Children:

1. Richard Prowse was born about 1407 in of Chagford, Devon, England; died after 1449.

Generation: 3

John Prowse was born about 1347 in of Chagford, Devon, England; died after 1392.

Notes:

Fitch-Northen notes that the Prowse pedigree in the 1564 visitation of Devon is unsatisfactory prior to this John Prowse. This would also clearly apply to the later visitation compilation edited by John Lambrick Vivian.

John married Maud Cruwys. Maud died after 1389. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud Cruwys died after 1389.

Notes:

In noting that she cannot have been, as claimed in the 1564 vistation of Devon, a daughter of Sir Alexander Cruwys, Charles Fitch-Northen's 1988 "The Trowbridge Ancestry" (citation details below) says that it seems "likely, though not documented, that Maud was the daughter of William Cruwys of East Anstey, co. Devon, who held East Anstey in 1346, presented to East Anstey 27 May 1348, and apparently had no sons." But in the Trowbridge ancestry that Fitch-Northen compiled for the eighth edition of Ancestral Roots (2004), he prudently described her only as "a daughter and heiress of the cadet Prowse family of East Anstey, Devon."

Probably sensibly, Fitch-Northen doesn't bother to argue with Vivian's placement of her as "da. of John Cruwys of Cruwys."

Children:

2. John Prowse was born about 1377 in of Chagford, Devon, England; died after 1446.

6.	Thomas Bamfield was born before 1346 in of Huxham, Devon, England (son of John Bamfield and Joan Gilbert); died after 1391. Other Events and Attributes: Alternate birth: of Poltimore, Devon, England Thomas married Agnes Coplestone before 1377. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

7.
Agnes Coplestone (daughter of Adam Coplestone and Alice Ferrers).
Children:

3. Agnes Bamfield was born between 1377 and 1386; died after 1434.

Generation: 4

12.	John Bamfield was born in of Poltimore, Devon, England (son of John Bamfield and Isabel Cobham); died before 1363. John married Joan Gilbert. Joan (daughter of Geoffrey Gilbert and Joan de Compton) died after 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

13.
Joan Gilbert (daughter of Geoffrey Gilbert and Joan de Compton); died after 1371.
Children:

6. Thomas Bamfield was born before 1346 in of Huxham, Devon, England; died after 1391.

14.	Adam Coplestone was born about 1310 (son of Richard Coplestone); died after 29 Nov 1384. Adam married Alice Ferrers. Alice (daughter of John Ferrers) was born in of Churston Ferrers, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

15.
Alice Ferrers was born in of Churston Ferrers, Devon, England (daughter of John Ferrers).
Children:

7. Agnes Coplestone