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 1625 - 1669

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• Birth	1625  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1669	Maryland   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I7877	Stewart
  Last Modified	01 Mar 2021
  Father	Roger Fowke,   b. Abt 1600
  Mother	Mary Bayley
  Family ID	F2718	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Mrs. Fowke
  Notes	First wife unknown, 2 issues.
  Children	1. Gerard Fowke   2. Jean Fowke
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2021
  Family ID	F2720	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Ann Thorowgood
  Married	12 Feb 1661  [3]
  Children	1. Adam Fowke   2. Elizabeth Anne Fowke > 3. Mary Fowke,   b. 1667, Charles County, Maryland ,   d. Abt 1701, Stafford County, Virginia > 4. Gerard Fowke,   b. 1663,   d. 1734
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2021
  Family ID	F2715	Group Sheet

• Event Map		Event Died - 1669 - Maryland  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	= Address   = Location   = City/Town   = County/Shire   = State/Province   = Country   = Not Set




• Notes

  Gerard Fowke; Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to King Charles I; Colonel in the British (sic, English) Army; escaped to Virginia after the Battle of Worcester in 1651; died in Maryland in 1669. Besides plantations in Virginia, he owned "Gunston", "Cedar Hill", "Hill Top" and other places near Namjemoy and Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. Col. Gerard Fowke was the Gentleman of the Bedchamber for King Charles I and Colonel of Horse in the Royalist Army that was privately funded by him and other royals. Upon immigrating to America he was elected Burgess of Charles County Maryland. [4] Col. F. was "Gentleman of the bed chamber to Charles I and a Colonel in the Royal Army." He came to Virginia with wife Ann (?), and cousin, Col. George Mason, of Stafford, England (BALL, p.109.) [5]

• Sources

  [S200] The Mason Descendents Database, https://gunstonhall.org/wp-content/uploads/masonweb/p37.htm. [S202] Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, Third Edition, Virginia M. Meyer (1974-1981), John Frederick Dorman, F.A.S.G. (1981-1987), (Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd Edition 1987), 610. He died before 30 Oct 1669 "when his widow Anne was granted administration of his estate." [S200] The Mason Descendents Database, https://gunstonhall.org/wp-content/uploads/masonweb/p476.htm. [S200] The Mason Descendents Database, https://www.geni.com/people/Colonel-Gerard-Fowke/6000000001533643553. [S106] Virginia Genealogies, Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, (Baltimore Southern Book Company, 1959), G959.5 H414v., 155.