 1545 - 1596 (~ 50 years)
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| Name |
Rowe, William |
| Christened |
21 Dec 1545 |
All Hallows Bread Street, London, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
29 Jun 1596 |
Walthamstow, Essex, England |
| Person ID |
I08754 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Rowe, Thomas, b. Abt 1515, Of Essex, England , bur. 2 Sep 1570, Hackney, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 55 years) |
| Mother |
Gresham, Mary, b. 27 Aug 1523, Of London, England , d. 18 Jan 1583, Of London, England (Age 59 years) |
| Married |
24 Jan 1539 |
St Mary Aldermanbury, London, England |
| Family ID |
F02451 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Cheney, Anne, b. Abt 1565, Of Chesham Boys, Buckinghamshire, England , d. 1638-1639, Walthamstow, Essex, England (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1580 |
England |
| Family ID |
F03084 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- In this chapel, there are monuments to the memory of .... and also of William Rowe, of Highham-hill, died 29th June, 1596, aged 40.
Sir John Roe the poet was the cousin, not the uncle, of the ambassador. He was the eldest son of William Rowe (or Roe) of Higham Hill, near Walthamstow, in the county of Essex. William Roe was the third son of the first Lord Mayor of the name Roe. He had two sons, John and William, the latter of whom is probably the person addressed in Jonson's Epigrammes, cxxviii. John was born, according to a statement in Morant's History of Essex (1768), on the fifth of May, 1581. This harmonizes with the fact that when the elder William Roe died in 1596 John was still a minor and thereby a cause of anxiety to his father, who in his will, proved in 1596, begs his wife and executors to "be suiters for his wardeshipp, that his utter spoyle (as much as in them is) maie be prevented." This probably refers to the chance of a courtier being made ward and despoiling the lad. The following year he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford. How long he stayed there is not known, probably not long. The career he chose was that of a soldier, and his first service was in Ireland. If he went there with Essex in 1599 he is perhaps one of that general's many knights. But he may have gone thither later, for he evidently found a patron in Mountjoy. In 1605 that nobleman, then Earl of Devonshire, wrote to Sir Ralph Winwood, Ambassador to the United Provinces, first to recommend Roe to him as one wishing to follow the wars and therein to serve the States; and then to thank him for his readiness to befriend Sir John Roe. He adds that he will be ever ready to serve the States to requite any favour Roe shall receive. By 1608 he was dead, for a list of captains discharged in Ireland since 1603 gives the following: "Born in England and dead in 1608 - Sir John Roe."
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