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Grace Trosse (b. 1620), wife of Amory Butler, Vicar of Moorlinch, Somerset
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kelsey.jack...@googlemail.com
May 15, 2013, 3:56:50 PM5/15/13
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Dear all,
It's fairly well known that four Butler siblings -- William, Mary, Amory, and John -- active in Westmoreland and Old Rappahannock Counties, Virginia in the late seventeenth century, were the children of Amory Butler, Vicar of Moorlinch, Somerset [1]. In turn, those interested in this family have identified the elder Amory as the man of that name who matriculated as a sizar 20 May 1629 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge [2] and was thus son of Samuel Butler, Master of Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and Joan Amory, daughter of John Amory of Whitechapel Manor, Bishop's Nympton, Devon [3]. To the best of my knowledge, however, the elder Amory's wife has not yet been identified. She was Grace Trosse, they married 15 June 1641 in Rose Ash, Devon [4], only a couple of miles from Bishop's Nympton, and she was undoubtedly the woman of the same name baptised at Rose Ash 20 September 1620 to Roger Trosse, rector of that parish [5].
ROGER TROSSE was baptised 26 August 1594 at Saint Martin, Exeter, Devon [6] and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 26 June 1612, aged 17, as “Roger Trosse of Devon, gent.” He proceeded B.A. 1 February 1615/16, M.A. 27 April 1619, and was presented as Rector of Rose Ash, Devon, 1618 [7]. He in turn was the son of,
THOMAS TROSSE of Exwick, Devon, gent., who was buried 17 December 1613 in St. Martin, Exeter [8]. He married GRACE PARRIS, daughter of John Parris of Bampton [9], who was buried 11 September 1615 in St. Martin [10]. According to his grandson, the nonconformist minister George Trosse, he was “an Esquire by Birth, and bred a Counsellour at Law” [11].
Given the group's interests, I hope this is of interest on its own, but I'd also be interested in any suggestions forthcoming concerning Roger Trosse's wife and the earlier ancestry of these families. The Trosses seem to have married into both the Exeter mercantile elite and the rural Devon gentry over the course of the seventeenth century but their own origins are unclear.
All the best,
Kelsey
Notes
[1] Augusta B. Fothergill, “Underwood Family of Virginia”, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 40 (1932): 91-92.
[2] Alumni Cantabrigienses, s.n.
[3] Frederic Thomas Colby, ed., The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620 (London, 1872), 7.
[4] IGI, M051581.
[5] IGI, C051581.
[6] IGI, C050981.
[7] Alumni Oxonienses, iv. 1512.
[8] J. L. Vivian, Visitations of the County of Devon (Exeter, 1895), 739.
[9] Colby, ed., 1620 Visitation of Devon, 288.
[10] Vivian, Visitations, 739.
[11] The Life of the Reverend Mr. Geo. Trosse, Late Minister of the Gospel in the City of Exon (Exeter, 1714), 1.
It's fairly well known that four Butler siblings -- William, Mary, Amory, and John -- active in Westmoreland and Old Rappahannock Counties, Virginia in the late seventeenth century, were the children of Amory Butler, Vicar of Moorlinch, Somerset [1]. In turn, those interested in this family have identified the elder Amory as the man of that name who matriculated as a sizar 20 May 1629 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge [2] and was thus son of Samuel Butler, Master of Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and Joan Amory, daughter of John Amory of Whitechapel Manor, Bishop's Nympton, Devon [3]. To the best of my knowledge, however, the elder Amory's wife has not yet been identified. She was Grace Trosse, they married 15 June 1641 in Rose Ash, Devon [4], only a couple of miles from Bishop's Nympton, and she was undoubtedly the woman of the same name baptised at Rose Ash 20 September 1620 to Roger Trosse, rector of that parish [5].
ROGER TROSSE was baptised 26 August 1594 at Saint Martin, Exeter, Devon [6] and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 26 June 1612, aged 17, as “Roger Trosse of Devon, gent.” He proceeded B.A. 1 February 1615/16, M.A. 27 April 1619, and was presented as Rector of Rose Ash, Devon, 1618 [7]. He in turn was the son of,
THOMAS TROSSE of Exwick, Devon, gent., who was buried 17 December 1613 in St. Martin, Exeter [8]. He married GRACE PARRIS, daughter of John Parris of Bampton [9], who was buried 11 September 1615 in St. Martin [10]. According to his grandson, the nonconformist minister George Trosse, he was “an Esquire by Birth, and bred a Counsellour at Law” [11].
Given the group's interests, I hope this is of interest on its own, but I'd also be interested in any suggestions forthcoming concerning Roger Trosse's wife and the earlier ancestry of these families. The Trosses seem to have married into both the Exeter mercantile elite and the rural Devon gentry over the course of the seventeenth century but their own origins are unclear.
All the best,
Kelsey
Notes
[1] Augusta B. Fothergill, “Underwood Family of Virginia”, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 40 (1932): 91-92.
[2] Alumni Cantabrigienses, s.n.
[3] Frederic Thomas Colby, ed., The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620 (London, 1872), 7.
[4] IGI, M051581.
[5] IGI, C051581.
[6] IGI, C050981.
[7] Alumni Oxonienses, iv. 1512.
[8] J. L. Vivian, Visitations of the County of Devon (Exeter, 1895), 739.
[9] Colby, ed., 1620 Visitation of Devon, 288.
[10] Vivian, Visitations, 739.
[11] The Life of the Reverend Mr. Geo. Trosse, Late Minister of the Gospel in the City of Exon (Exeter, 1714), 1.
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