'Dowse1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Dowse of Browton, Dowse of Moore Court, Douce of Jamaica, Douce of West Malling
| CountyGen (Berry, Hampshire, p312), which follows the Visitation, identifies the arms of this family as "Or, a chev. chequy, ar. and az. betw. three greyhounds, courant, sa. collared gu.". | |||||||||||||||
| Nicholas Dowse of Husborne, co. Southampton (Hampshire) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Allice Ingpen (dau of _ Ingpen of Gallaker) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | William Dowse | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Richard Dowse of Moore Court, co. Southampton | ||||||||||||||
| m. Allice Tutt (dau of George Tutt of Moore Court) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Dowse (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | John Dowse of Moore Court | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Naylor (dau of William Naylor of Bewley (Beaulieu)) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Richard Dowse of Moore Court | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Pawlett (dau of Thomas Pawlett of Melplash, son of William, Marquess of Winchester) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | George Dowse probably the George of Moore Court who was father of ... | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Maria Dowse | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Nicholas Fuller of Chamberhouse (b c1592, d 07.1621?) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Thomas Lee (son of Thomas son/heir of Sir Thomas of Moreton) | |||||||||||||||
| b.+ | other issue - Pawlett, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Thomas Dowse of Browton, co. Southampton | ||||||||||||||
| m. Blanch Covert of Sussex | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Francis Dowse of Browton & Nether Wallop | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Pawlett (dau of Hamden Pawlett 'of Nether Wallop') | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Hamden Dowse | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Thomas Dowse probably the Thomas Douce of Nether Wallop who was father of ... | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Elizabeth Dowse or Douce | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Gosling (b 1684) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Giles Dowse apparently of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Elizabeth Dowse (coheir) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Uvedale of Horton (d before 14.11.1679) | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Anne Dowse (d 1644) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Philip Carteret of St. Ouen (b 1583) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Ester Dowse or Dowce probably of this generation, surname shown as Dowce | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Paulet of Amport (d 1672) | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Allice Dowse | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Grymes "of the North" | |||||||||||||||
| (1)+ | issue - John, Honor, Frances, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| c.+ | other issue - Edward, Richard, Gabriell, John, Elizabeth, Jane | ||||||||||||||
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| BLG1858 identifies the following as "descended from a respectable family in Hampshire, of which county Sir Francis Douce served as high-sheriff 4th Charles II" (1652). Wikipedia ("High Sheriff of Hampshire') does not show such a Francis in/around that year but does showa Francis Douse as High Sheriff in 1628. We suspect that that was the same person as the Sir Francis Dowse of Browton & Nether Wallop shown above. This is supported by the fact that BLG1858 identifies the arms of this family as the same as the above family's. | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Douce (d 1799) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Augustus Douce of West Malling | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Hubble (dau/heir of Benjamin Hubble of West Malling by dau of John Savage of Boughton (not Brighton, son of John by Ann, dau of John Alchorne) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Augustus (or Augustus Thomas) Douce of Malling, later of Debtling in Kent (b 09.1779, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | William Henry Douce | ||||||||||||||
| BLG1858 suggests that William had 1 daughter by his 1st marriage + 3 sons by the 2nd. These may have been just the surviving children as Berry suggests that he had the following family. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Jane Downman (dau of Colonel _ Downman) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | issue - Emma (d infant), Jane (d infant), Ann | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Emily Penfold (dau of Edward Penfold of Loose) | |||||||||||||||
| iv.+ | other issue - William Henry, Thomas Augustus, Alfred, Francis, Emily, Maria, Charlotte | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Sophia Margaret Douce | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Dudlow of West Malling | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | other issue - Francis Hubble (dsp), Charles Benjamin (dsp), George Frederick, Augustus Edmund, Harriet Elizabeth, Frances Catherine | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - Francis (b 1756-7, dsp 26.03.1834, antiquary), William of Bath (had issue) | ||||||||||||||
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| Possibly connected to the above family, but shown here primarily for our convenience, was ... | |||||||||||||||
| John Douce of Clarendon, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Catherine Douce (d 13.05.1782) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Robert Penny (Attorney-General of Jamaica) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Edward Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica (Colonel, MP, son of Sir Jonathan, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Ivy Douce | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Hancock of the Close, Salisbury (d 09.06.1798) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Maria Hancock (d 13.03.1827) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Stephen Robinson of Honiton (MD) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Elizabeth Douce Hancock | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Molyneux Marston of Willenhall (dsp, son of Richard of Willenhall, m2. Rosamund) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Fanny Hancock (d 20.02.1817) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Douce Garthwaite of Shackleford (cousin) | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | Elizabeth Douce (bur 07.12.1774) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Ezekiel Gomersall (b 1663-4, d 12.05.1734, Colonel, Member of HM Council in Jamaica, m1. Mary, dau of Francis Dickinson by Mary) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Edward Garthwaite of Shackleford (d 22.10.1781) | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (originally uploaded to a Temporary page on 28.10.06 then uploaded to DZmisc11 on 23.10.15, reviewed 03.05.17 & 12.03.21) : Visitation (Hampshire, 1530+1575+1622-34, 'Dowse'), 'An Armorial of Jersey' (J. Bertrand Payne, 1859, 'Pedigree of Dowse', p83)
(2) For middle section : BLG1858 ('Douce of West Malling, now of Debtling'), CountyGen
(Berry, Sussex (p96) & Kent (p176))
(3) For lower section :
MGH (NS1, vol 4 (1884), 'Family of Garthwaite, otherwise Gathwaite', p425)
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