Joan (Baynton) Prowse (abt. 1475)

Born about 1475 in Faulstone, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Sandford, Devon, England [uncertain]

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Joan Baynton is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project to surety baron Roger le Bigod (see text below).

Biography

Birth

Born: Say 1470-1480.

Rough estimate based on her father likely being born 1445-1450 and a daughter being born 1500. Daughter and heiress of Henry Baynton.^[1]

Marriage

Married: Thomas Prowse, of Prowse in Sandford, co. Devon.

'Jana filia et haer uxor Tho: Prouse de com Devon' ^[2]

Child of Thomas Prowse and Jane Baynton:

• Mary Prowse.

Discussion

This generation is part of the royal ancestry developed for the Great Migration immigrant Mary Gye in 1961.^[3][4] It is lacking in documentation and requires additional evidence to be proven. It hinges a Visitation pedigree where Jane Baynton, daughter and heir of Henry Baynton, is said to have married Thomas Prowse of Devon. An assumption is then made that this Thomas Prowse is identical to Thomas Prowse of Prowse in Sandford whose lands descended to the family of Gye. There is no other evidence which connects the Prowse family of Devon to the Baynton family of Wiltshire.

Sources

1. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013):GYE, vol. 3:183.
2. ↑ Squibb, George Drewry. ed. Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees, 1623, with Additional Pedigrees and Arms Collected … 1628. (Harleian Society Visitation Series, vol. 105, 1954):5-8.
3. ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 115 no. 4 (October 1961): 248-253. The Ancestry of Mary Gye, Wife of the Rev. John Maverick, by John G. Hunt.
4. ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 122 no. 4 (October 1968): 282-283. The Ancestry of Mary Gye, Wife of the Rev. John Maverick, by John G. Hunt.

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013).
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, exp. 2nd ed. in 4 vols, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011).

Acknowledgments

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed by Joe Cochoit and reviewed/approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 17 Nov 2020.

Joan (Baynton) Prowse appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Mary Gye to Magna Carta Surety Baron Roger le Bigod (vol. II, pages 325-326 GYE). This trail was developed in 2019 by Joe Cochoit and was badged 19 Nov 2020 by Thiessen-117. Profiles on this trail can be seen in the Magna Carta Trails section of Robert Gye's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".