Pinefamily
20-12-20, 23:04
Hello everyone. I hope you are all safe and well in these difficult times.
I have a longstanding puzzle that I was looking over again. Hopefully some fresh eyes can help sort it out.
My ancestor, Ferdinando Dowdeswell, died in 1619 in London. His will lists many relatives as beneficiaries as he didn't marry. My puzzle is who is John Gyne, who is described as "brother". Now I know that can mean brother, brother-in-law, and step/half brother, but I can rule out the first two reasonably confidently.
As far as I can tell Ferdinando only had one sister, Alice. She is named in his will, and also named in their father's will of 1585 (only three children named in this will: Ferdinando, Thomas, and Alice). The father, John Dowdeswell, died when his children were all minors, so it is possible that his wife Christian remarried, possibly to a Gyne/Gine. I haven't been able to find any such marriage of a Christian Dowdeswell to anyone though.
https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/imageviewer/collections/5111/images/40611_311298-00032?pid=907877&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XpU6422&_phstart=successSource
Thanks in advance.
I have a longstanding puzzle that I was looking over again. Hopefully some fresh eyes can help sort it out.
My ancestor, Ferdinando Dowdeswell, died in 1619 in London. His will lists many relatives as beneficiaries as he didn't marry. My puzzle is who is John Gyne, who is described as "brother". Now I know that can mean brother, brother-in-law, and step/half brother, but I can rule out the first two reasonably confidently.
As far as I can tell Ferdinando only had one sister, Alice. She is named in his will, and also named in their father's will of 1585 (only three children named in this will: Ferdinando, Thomas, and Alice). The father, John Dowdeswell, died when his children were all minors, so it is possible that his wife Christian remarried, possibly to a Gyne/Gine. I haven't been able to find any such marriage of a Christian Dowdeswell to anyone though.
https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/imageviewer/collections/5111/images/40611_311298-00032?pid=907877&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XpU6422&_phstart=successSource
Thanks in advance.