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Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley (b. 1587 – d. 1628 ) [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was an early settler of the Jamestown Colony and a key member of the Flowerdew family, significant participants in the history of Jamestown.
A relation from the Flowerdew family, John Pory, served as secretary to the colony from 1618 to 1622. [6] And when Flowerdew Hundred sent representatives to the first General Assembly in Jamestown in 1619, one was Ensign Edmund Rossingham, a son of Temperance Flowerdew's elder sister Mary Flowerdew. [7]
Flowerdew Hundred Plantation dates to 1618/19 with the patent by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, of 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the south side of the James River. Yeardley probably named the plantation after his wife's wealthy father, Anthony Flowerdew, just as he named another plantation " Stanley Hundred " after ...
Temperance Flowerdew: Wife of Richard Barrow Flowerdew Barrow, T. Faulcon [55] Uncertain if husband Richard Barrow accompanied to Virginia Nicolas Bennit: carpenter Sea Venture: William Brian: Sea Venture: Jeffrey Briars ️ Sea Venture: Died in Bermuda, c. 1609-1610 Richard Buck: Reverend, Chaplain Bucke or Bucket, R. Sea Venture
Flowerdew became Lady Yeardley when Yeardly became the governor of the colony. [19] Her husband made a treaty in which he had one thousand acres of land granted in his wife's name. After her husband died, Flowerdew married Governor Frances West in 1628. She died a few months later. [20]
In March 1627 West remarried, to the widow of Governor George Yeardley, Temperance Flowerdew. She died in December of the same year, and West unsuccessfully litigated against the former Governor's orphaned children for possession of her estate. [ 10 ]
Through their son Anthony Flowerdew of Hethersett in Norfolk and his wife Martha Stanley of Scottow in Norfolk, Amy Robsart is the great-aunt of Temperance Flowerdew. [106] [107] Amy Robsart's paternal grandparents were Theoderick (Terry) Robsart and Elizabeth (d.20 November 1535 [108]), daughter of Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Syderstone. [107]
Francis West (28 October 1586 – c.1634), esquire, Governor of Virginia, who emigrated to Virginia, and married firstly, before 6 February 1626, Margaret, widow of Edward Blayney, by whom he had a son, Francis West, and a daughter, Elizabeth West, and secondly, on 31 March 1628, Temperance Flowerdew (d.