As promised, here is the ancestry of Thomas Trowbridge as given in "Ancestral Roots" Unlike AR, I am working backwards from latest to earliest. The first number is the Line number of the person and his/her place in line. As you'll note, Thomas Trowbridge is number 46, so I will be breaking the lineage up into pieces. Citation: Weis, Frederick Lewis (1992/2002). "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700," Seventh Edition, The Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore Maryland. 246G-42 Thomas Trowbridge, [note: Thomas and his wife Elizabeth are well covered in an NEHGR article, Vol. 59, p. 291-297 for which I have created a PDF version if anyone wants it, so I will shorten the relatively long entry here] b. ca. 1600, and named in his father John's will. He married Elizabeth Marshall, bapt. at St. Mary's Arches Church, Exeter on 24 March 1562. 246G-41. Agnes (or Annis) Prowse, was bapt. Tiverton 15 April 1576 and m. to John Trowbridge, bapt. St. Mary Magdelen Church 25 Mar. 1570, son of Thomas Trowbridge. The marriage was preceded by a settlement made by Thomas which granted to Agnes an annuity of 30 pounds for life issuing from all his lands at Rowbarton, occupied by his mother-in-law Alice Hutchings for her life. On the same day, Thomas was admitted to a life interest in his father's properties at Obridge and Staplegrove and Pyrland, partly occupied by Thomas' wife Johanne (nee Hutchins). Agnes' marriage took place at St. Peter's, Tiverton, 31 July 1597, 13 1/2 months before her father's death. Agnes herself was buried Taunton 6 June 1622. The above Thomas Trowbridge, Sr. was a leading citizen and charitable founder, a mercer, with a Tudor mansion extant, in the high street and had served as constable and porttreve of the castle manor. Agnes' husband John Prowse was sole son and h. at his father's death 1620, and served Taunton as Mayor & Magistrate 1629 & 1637 also as warden of St. Mary Magdelen, constable & portreve of Taunton castle manor. He m. (2) 11 March 1623/4 Alice reed of Tiverton. 246G-40. John II Prowse, gent. of Tiverton, who, according to his father's I.P.M. was 39 at his death, received from feoffees the large Plymouth manor of Western Peverel, worth, by the year 18 pounds 7s, 2d, with Chevythorn and Tiverton property worth a further 5 pounds 10s. But at John II's own death, 111 September 1598, his I.P.M. taken in 1601 showed that, by then, all the property was entail upon descendants and relatives with tenure for life. John m. 1 June 1567 Elizabeth, h. to Robert Colwick, her father, merchant taylor and clothier and lord of the manor of West More, Tiverton, whose wife, and mother of Elizabeth, his heir, was Richarda Gover, a widow, whose 1st h. and parentage has not been established. He was bur. St. Peter's 8 Aug. 1564. 246G-39. John Prowse, clothier, s. & h. inherited copyhold land in the manor of Chevythorn, Tiverton from his father, which he granted to Robert, his brother of age in 1524 when taxed on 2 pounds worth of goods, by 1546, paid tax in Tiverton on over 40 pounds. At his death, he left 5 manors in Devon & Cornwall, with much other property, by fine, entail for his 5 sons. His wife, Alice White, given as an heiress in Tiverton, perhaps daughter of Christopher Whyte, taxed on 10 pounds of goods 1546. His memorial slab in St. Peter's Church, Tiverton, reads: "Here lyeth John Prowse, Merchante, who departed the third daye of September 1585. And Alice his wife which he had in marriage 47 years, who departed the 13 daye of August ano dni 1583" 246G-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 ascension named Robert Sr. as of Chevythorn Manor. The lord of this manor was Philip Champernown. (some stuff snipped here). 246G-37. John Prowse, s & h., b. ca. 1436, d. 1526, lord of Chagford, m. ca. 1467 Joan Orchard, dau. of John Orchard, d. 1480 "custos rotularum" for Devon under Edward IV. Three published I.P.M.'s cover his heritage and that of his other wife Joan Calwoodley, and son William, who died d.s.p. The ultimate heir to N. Devon holdings in Northam, Bydeford, Abbotsham, and Dodescomb in Bampton was John Prowse's s. & h. Lawrence. 246G-36. Richard Prowse, s. & h. of Chagford, b. ca. 1407, m. ca. 1435 to Margaret, dau. of William Norton, by Elizabeth Crowys of the Morchard, Devon, branch. William was King's Esquier and Usher to the Council Chamber under Henry IV and V with property near Exeter, Devon, and elsewhere. 246G-35. Agnes Bamfield, one of Thomas's five children was probably born betw. 1377 and 1386, and m. ca. 1406 to John Prowse of Chagford, Devon, b. ca. 1377, liv. 1477, s. & h. of John Prowse and Maud Cruwys, who all authorities agree was a dau.. & heiress of the cadet Prowse family of East Anstey, Devon. She and her husband received f rom trustees Chagford lands 1435. 246G-34. Thomas Bamfield, b. by 1345, liv. 1392/3, became the "domicellus" of Huxham Manor, with his mother Joan presenting the priest, by license of elder brother John, who d.s.p. Thos. m. by 1376 Agnes, dau. of Adam Coplestone, by Alice Frerrers of Churston Ferrers, Devon, dau. of Sir John and h. of Hugh Ferrers. 246G-33. John Bamfield III of Poltimore and later Huxham, seen 1361 on presenting the priest, but d. by 1362. He m. Joan, dau. of Geoffrey, sister of WIlliam Gilbert, ancestors of the Elizabethan colonial explorers to N. America, Sir Humphrey and Ralph Gilbert. Geoffrey founded Compton Castle, Marldon, Devon. He was M.P. Totnes 1626, Commissioner, and tax gatherer for Edward II. John and Joan received from her father's feoffees 60 acres of Huxham land with a reversion to their s. & h. John and yr. son Thomas. 246G-32. John Bamfield II of Poltimore, suc. by 1329 when Babcary, Soberest lands conveyed to him by Fine, naming his first wife Isabel, dau. of Lord Henry Cobham's yr. brother Sir John Cobham of Blackborough, by Amicia de Bolhay,, dau. of Sir James of Poltimore Manor, Devon. By 1337, Bamfield had m. (2) Joan, dau. of Wm. Huxham of that Devon manor, who d.s.p. as Bamfield's widow. He also paid homage to his cousin John, Lord Beauchamp of Hatch for lands held of him. 246G-31. Eleanor Beauchamp, dau of Sir Humphrey Beauchamp (246B-30 [see next post]) by Sybil Oliver. He first served overseas 1274 and by military summons against the Scots, as holding 40 pounds Som. & Dorset lands. Knight of the Shire in parliament for Devon 1312, Devon & Dorset 1313. Eleanor probably b. ca. 1275 as seen m. 1292 in deed 395 of Sir Wm. Pole's collection, when her husband John Bamfield of psh of Weston Somerset, permanently moved the family seat, by purchase, to the manor of Poltimore, Devon. (See TAG, 57:32 (1981) and The Genealogist IX:9-10 (1988))