♂Richard Fowle

Richard Fowle (born about 1514 – buried 5 May 1572) was a landholder of Frittenden, in Kent, England, who also held lands in Marden. He was the twelfth great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007) by two separate lines of descent, through his son Thomas Fowle (1540–1592).

Richard was probably born soon after September 1514, most likely a son of Thomas Fowle of Marden, who made his will that year, and his wife Johane. The name of Richard’s own wife is not known, and she died before him. They had a son, Thomas, born about 1540, and daughters Alice and Joane; another daughter, who had married a man named Donner, also died before her father, leaving a son, John. Richard made his will as Richard Fowle of Frittenden on 3 September 1570, leaving Thomas lands in Frittenden and Marden. He was buried at Frittenden on 5 May 1572, and his will was proved on 20 October that year.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through his son Thomas Fowle, Thomas’s son Richard Fowle (1569–1632) and Richard’s daughter Joan Fowle (1604–1688), who married Richard Borden. They meet again in Salena Sherman (1806–1842), whose parents Waite Allen (1766–1850) and Batchelder Sherman (1761–1828) both descended from Richard.

Notes

Sources

His will, his burial, his lands and his children are from G. Andrews Moriarty’s account of the family, “Fowle-Borden”, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 75 (1921), pp. 226–233, built from the Frittenden and Headcorn parish registers, Kent wills and the lay subsidy rolls. Moriarty names Alice, Joane and the grandson John as living on 3 September 1570, the date of the will, and the daughter married to Donner as dead by then. No baptism is printed for him; Moriarty gives his birth as “probably soon after 8 Sept. 1514”.

Parentage

Moriarty calls Richard “probably a son of Thomas Fowle of Marden, co. Kent, the testator of 1514, and his wife Johane”.

His wife

Moriarty gives her name as unknown. She had died by 3 September 1570, when Richard made his will.