Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 27 August 1579.
Place of Burial: Haresfield, Gloucestershire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: Thomas Rowles.
Mother: uncertain.
George is named in Thomas’s will, which also names Thomas’s wife Annys. It is not clear that Annys is George’s mother. (Thomas must have had a wife previous to Annys, since he notes in his will that his son Bartholomew has promised to marry Annys’s daughter Ellen.)
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William Rowles (died about 1588) married Margaret Browning 16 November 1581 in Standish, Gloucestershire.
Henry Rowles
George Rowles (possibly buried 27 November 1594 in Haresfield).
Evidence
The will of George’s brother William:
In the name of god amen the xth day of Maye anno dom 1573 & in the yere of the Reigne of our soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of englnd france & Irelande Quene defender of the faythe &c the fyvethtene I William Rowles of harsfeild in the county of Gloucr husbandman, sicke in bodie but of good and p[er]fect memorie praysed be god do make my last will & testament in manner & forme lollowinge Inprimis I geve remitt & bequethe my sowle unto allmightie God my saviour & redemer & my bodie unto the earth frome Whence it had his originall beginninge & beinge & to be buryed in the church yeard of harsfeild Item I bequeth unto Johan my wyfe the bedd that we do ly on with a payre of sheets a payre of blanckets a couerlett and a boulster. Item an other stockbed in the soller with a payr of sheets a payre of blanckets & a boulster: Item ij potts namely the second best & the third best Item ij pannes the second & third Item ij Candlesticks & halfe a dozen of pewter & also the bedstead which I do ly on. Further the same day before & in the presence of the wittnesses hereunder named the sayd william declared his testament or last will nuncupative as Followethe viz he willed & bequeathed to George Rowles his brother that he should enioy his howse that he nowe dwelleth in with thappurtenances thereunto belonginge duringe his lyf, payinge unto hyme the sayd Willm Rowles & his heires fyve shillings by the yere yerely at ij usuall feasts due the same viz at the fast of St Mychaell tharchangell & thannunciacon of our Lady by equall portions and willed & devised that his heires should pay unto his [proude?] eldest brother yerely fyve shillings of real & lawfull money out of the sayde howse And willed & bequeated that the Residue of his goods not geven nor bequeathed (his debts & legaces beinge payd) shoulde remayne & be distributed amonst his chilldren which shall be moost neede by the discretion of his brother Bartholomew Rowles & George Rowles Robt Smyth Henry Merey & Robt Redferne Theis being wittnesses
[A list of debts]
[Proved 14 May 1573 by his wife Joane and son George]
from the Haresfield parish register:
George Rowles was buried the xxvijth day of August Anno 1579
George Rowles the farmour was buried the xxvijthe of November 1594
References
Haresfield parish register. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 18 December 2020.
Will of Bartholomew Rowles. Proved 1585 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 18 December 2020.
Will of Thomas Rowles. Proved 1549 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 18 December 2020.
Will of William Rowles. Proved 1573 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 18 December 2020.
Will of William Rowles. Proved 1588 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 18 December 2020.