'Vowe1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Vowe of Hallaton

                               
Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Or, on a bend between two cottizes Gules, three mullets of six points Argent, pierced of the field".
William Vowe
m. Margerie (Margaret) Dexter, heiress of Hallaton (dau of William Dexter (son of William by Margaret, sister/heir of William Hackluit of Hallaton), widow of John Myton)
Commoners & BLG1847 jump from this generation down to the Leonard who m. Dorothy Cotton. Nichols provides the intervening geneations.
1. John Vowe (d 1545)
  A. Thomas Vowe (b 1515)
  i. William Vowe
  a. Thomas Vowe (dsp)
b. Leonard Vowe (a temp Mary who r. 1553-58)
  (1) Thomas Vowe (a 1585)
  (A) Thomas Vowe (d 1624-5)
  m. Thomasine Fisher
(i) Leonard Vowe of Hallaton (d 03.1645)
  m. Dorothy Cotton (b 1582-3, d 15.06.1666, dau of William Cotton of Laughton)
  (a) Thomas Vowe (b 1628, d 1691)
  m. Jane Dowley (dau of Rev. Robert Dowley of Elford)
  ((1)) Leonard Vowe of Hallaton (b 1664, d 03.05.1709)
  m1. (1690) Elizabeth Reynolds (d 1691, dau of Rev. Edward Reynolds (archdeacon of Norfolk))
  m2. Martha Butler (d 1744, dau of Richard Butler of Preston Copes)
  ((A)) Thomas Vowe (d 1738, 4th son)
  m. Martha Fenwicke (d 1725, dau of John Fenwicke)
  ((B)) George Vowe (youngest son)
  m. _ Sutton
Nichols shows that it was the above Thomas who was father (by Martha) of the following Thomas. Commoners & BLG1847 show that it was George who was father of ...
  ((i)) Thomas Vowe of Hallaton (b c1736, d 27.01.1785)
  m. Elizabeth Smalley (b c1740, d 05.08.1782, dau of John Smalley by Elizabeth, dau of Sir Richard Halford of Wistow, Bart)
  ((a)) Leonard Vowe of Hallaton (b c1767, d 08.02.1793)
  m. (11.10.1788) Anna Pocklington (dau of Thoroton Pocklington of Kinmoulton (Kinoulton))
  (((1))) Thomas Vowe of Hallaton (b 22.03.1792) had issue
  m. (15.07.1820) Sarah Howes (dau/heir of James Howes of Thorington)
  (((2))) Elizabeth Ann Vowe
  m. John Sutton Webster of Nottingham
  ((b) Elizabeth Vowe
  m. Joseph Gregory (vicar in Leicester)
  ((c))+ other issue - George, Thomas, John, Hungerford, Mary Anne
  ((C))+ other issue - Henry (d 1698), Leonard (d 1699), John (d 1720), Richard, William, George, Mary (d 1742-3), Elizabeth (d 1743)
  ((2)) Thomas Vowe (d 1738)
  m. Martha Forde (d 1725)
  ((3)) Jane Vowe (b 1654)
  m. Richard Foster of Nassington
  ((A))+ 3 sons
  ((4))+ other issue - Elizabeth, Hannah

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John NichoÏs, vol 2, part 2, 1798, 'Pedigree of Vowe of Hallaton', p602) with some input/support from Commoners (vol 2, 'Vowe of Hallaton', p97+), BLG1847 ('Howe of Hallaton')
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