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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 ...
Edmund Rossingham was the nephew of and factor for Sir George Yeardley, who was Governor of the Colony of Virginia, three times between November 1616 and November 1627, and his wife Temperance Flowerdew.
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]
Arthur Flowerdew (1906–2002), British engineer; Bob Flowerdew, British organic gardener and television presenter; Edward Flowerdew (d. 1586), English politician and judge; Gordon Flowerdew (1885–1918), Canadian cavalry officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross; Temperance Flowerdew (1590–1628), early settler of the Jamestown Colony of ...
Flowerdew Hundred dates to 1618–19 with the patent of 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) on the south side of the James River in Virginia. Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, may have named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. Their primary residence was in Jamestown when Sir George called the first ...
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.