Nicholas Rowe (1603)

Born 1603 in Muswell Hill, Middlesex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Hayward) Rowe — married 16 Jan 1623 in St Bartholomew the Great, City of London, England

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Biography

Birth and Education

Nicholas Rowe was the firstborn son of Nicholas Rowe of Muswell Hill and his wife Elizabeth Rivers. He was born in 1603, being age 13 in the year of his father's death in 1616. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The two generations of Nicholas Rowe must be distinguished; the father was not knighted, the son was. ^[4]

Nicholas Rowe was admitted to Emanuel College Cambridge on 18 June 1618. ^[5] He was specially admitted (probably at the behest of his father) at the Inner Temple on 13 October 1621. ^[6] There is no record of his receiving a degree or being called to the bar.

Titles

Sir Nicholas Rowe was knighted 16 Jul 1625 at Windsor, one of those knights made at the coronation of King Charles I. ^[7]

Marriage

Sir Nicholas Rowe (Roe) of Highgate, Middlesex, married his first wife, Mary Hayward, when he was 19 years old.[2]

The marriage had one child, Mary Rowe. She died in 1634 and was buried at St James Clerkenwell on 24 April. ^[8]

Parents

Father: Nicholas Rowe of Muswell Hill (Father: Sir William Rowe of Muswell Hill)[3]

Marriage

m.1 Mary Hayward (d. ante 30 Mar 1626). Issue: 1[4]

• Mary (b. ante 30 Mar 1626 - d.1634)[5][6]

m.2 _______ Duncomb (Father: Sir Edward Duncomb). Issue:[7]

• George (bur. 07 Jul 1661 St. James Clerkenwell)[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Mundy, Richard. Middlesex Pedigrees. "Rowe of Muswell Hill", p. 46. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1914. p. 46
2. ↑ Nicholl, John. "Pedigree of Rowe", Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. p. 531. Pedigree.
3. ↑ The Visitation of London 1634, p. 213. p. 213
4. ↑ father
5. ↑ Venn, J A. Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3, p. 492. Camridge University Press. p. 492
6. ↑ The Inner Temple Admissions Database Inner Temple
7. ↑ Knighted[1]
8. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Nicholas Rowe: Islington: St James, Clerkenwell: 1561-1670 Ancestry

• Marriage entry - London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812; "Nicholas Roe of Muswell Hill in the parish of St James Clerkenwell Esq., and Mary Hayward daughter of Sir John Hayward of this parish knight, were married by licence"

Hayward, J. (1840). "Will of Sir John Hayward date 30th March 1626." Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, (Vol. 7, pp. xli - 1). Camden Society.[9].

Robinson, W. (1840). "Biographical sketch of Sir John Hayward, as far as far as he was connected with Tottenham." The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, (Vol. 2). Nicholls and Son.[10]