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Updated 13 November 2005
1600 Info 3 for the Cromptons of the Stuart Period
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Sir William Gee m.(1) m.(2)1601
of Bishop Burton Thomasine Hutton Mary Crompton (Dame Mary Gee)
b.1553 b.1570 b.1582
d.1612 d.1599 d.
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Son Dau.1 Dau.2 |
all died young |
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John + five children
b.1603
d.1627
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m.~1624
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Frances Hotham
b.
d.
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William
b.1625
d.1678
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m.1~1647 m.2
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Rachel Mary
Parker Spencer
b.1632 b.
d.1650 d.1702
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William Richard William Dau.
b.1648 b.~1657 b.
d. d. d.~1718
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m.~1685 m.1~1664 m.2
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Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth
Ellerker Hotham Cracroft
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Thomas + 10 children 2 children + William
b.1673 b.
d. d.1745
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m.~1725
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Phillipa
Hotham
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Roger
b.~1737
d.
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m.~1762
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Caroline
Warton
Mary Crompton - Dame Mary Gee
Mary Crompton married and became the second wife of Sir William Gee of Bishop Burton, East
Yorkshire. The estate was bought by the Crompton family, who in turn sold it
to William Gee (d.1612) in 1603. It subsequently descended in the Gee family
until being bought by Richard Watt in 1783 (Alison, History of Yorkshire East
Riding iv,pp.3-4).
Henry Gee of Rothley, in Leicestershire, was the father of William Gee (b. circa
1562) who first moved to Hull as a master mariner.
He acquired great wealth as a Merchant of the Staple [wool] and through public
office. He was sheriff of Hull in 1560 and mayor in 1562, 1573 and 1582 and
benefactor of Hull Grammar School. He was secretary of the Council of the North
and Keeper of the Signet from 1604. (Wildridge, Old and New Hull, pp.41, 171-2;
Foster, Pedigrees, iii; English, The great landowners of East Yorkshire, p.25).
He first married Thomasine Hutton, daughter of Mathew Hutton, who died in 1599.
They had one son and two daughters before Thomasine died aged 29 years in 1599.
The son predeceased his father and on the family monument in York Minster, built
by Mary Crompton, none of these children appear suggesting that they all died
young. William Gee's second wife was Mary Crompton, daughter of one of the
queen's auditors [Thomas of Bennyington qv]. There were six children by the
second marriage.
When William died in early 1612, at the age of only 50, Mary was forced to buy
the wardship of his eldest son for £750 to maintain some family control over the
estates (Foster, Pedigrees, iii; English, The great landowners of East Yorkshire,
p.25; Pevsner & Neave, York and the East Riding, pp.147, 330) [DDHE/6/19]
The eldest, by the second marriage, was John Gee (b.1603). John Gee married
Frances, daughter of Sir John Hotham, and they had only one child, William
(b.1625), before John Gee died prematurely in 1627. William Gee married first
Rachel Parker and had one son, William Gee (b.1625) of Beverley, before she died
aged only 18 in early 1650. He then married Mary Spencer and had two sons and a
daughter. The elder son, Richard Gee (b.circa 1657) inherited, through his mother,
lands in Orpington, Kent. William Gee died in 1678; his widow in 1702.
The younger William Gee was MP for Hull and Beverley and a supporter of William
of Orange and also married twice; first, to Elizabeth Hotham by whom he had 11
children and, second, Elizabeth Cracroft by whom he had 3 more children.
Bishop Burton was inherited on his death, in 1718, by his eldest son Thomas Gee
(b.1673), but when he died in 1750 he was succeeded by his grandson, Roger Gee
(b. circa 1737), son of his youngest child, William Gee (d.1745).
The Gee family had slowly accumulated debts and Roger Gee was the last member of
the family to own the manor and hall of Bishop Burton. It was held in trusteeship
for five years before sale in 1783.
Descendants remained in the East Riding, intermarrying with other local gentry
family. (Foster, Pedigrees, iii; English, The great landowners of East Yorkshire,
p.25; Borland and Dunning, Bishop Burton, pp.98,102).
The HUMAD estate papers of Bishop Burton (1552-1897) includes:
NOTE
James Gee married Constantia Moyser in about 1727. Where does James fit the tree?
Information from Hull University Manuscripts and Archives Database is referenced: eg- HUMAD Reference DDCA3/8/14
Link to Search page at HUMAD.
Family records have also been used.
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