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Dewnes GLANVILLE
Est 1574 - 1635 (~ 61 years)
Has 4 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Dewnes GLANVILLE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1574 Gender Female Died - After her father wrote his will on 30 Aug 1598 (then unmarried)
Buried 16 Sep 1635 The Church of St. Mary Blessed Virgin, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 May 2016)
"the 16th daie buried [blank] the wief of Sr William Strowde knight" - under heading 'September 1635'
On monument to her husband, this words appear above an effigy of Dewnes:
"Dewnes hath merited no slender prayer
In that she well supplyd the former's dayes
Conceive how good she was whose very worst
Unto the knight was this that she died first."
Siblings4 brothers and 3 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
John GLANVILLE, b. Est 1510, d. Between 12 Jan 1580 and 1 Feb 1580 (Age ~ 70 years) (Grandfather)
Elizabeth POYNTER, b. Est 1539, bur. 1 Jan 1614, St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England (Age ~ 75 years) (Mother) Notes - (Research):Named (still living) when her father wrote his will
Person ID I20606 All Last Modified 22 Sep 2025
Father Nicholas GLANVILLE, Gent., b. Est 1536, d. Between 30 Aug 1598 and 31 Oct 1598 (Age ~ 62 years) Mother Elizabeth POYNTER, b. Est 1539, bur. 1 Jan 1614, St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England (Age ~ 75 years) Married Est 1562 - Wife's Christian name from his will, whole name and her father's name from Harl. MS.Order of sons and order of daughters in Vivian (Cornwall), how the daughters were dispersed amongst the sons not shown.
It is not clear if they had 2 sons called John and 2 called Tobias or if this is a mistake by Vivian. One John is shown by Vivian as dying without issue, the other with, but the 'ob. s. p.' is shown as added by Vivian, not (as some others are) as being in the 1620 visitation. Six sons are numbered, the only 2 for whom a spouse and children are shown are a Tobias and a John for whom no birth order number is given, hence me thinking Vivian may have added the same 2 twice. I am only adding one with each name for the moment.
Family ID F8156 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Henry VOSPER, [Parents?], d. Yes, date unknown Married Between 30 Aug 1598 and 1600 - Dewnes was a Vosper when she married Sir William Strode.
Dewnes was still a Glanville when her father wrote his will in 1598, but a quitclaim of 1600 refers to 'Henry Vosper of Tavistock, merchant, and Dewnes his wife' DHC ref.: 1262M/T/1161 (so far I have only seen the catalogue entry which does not give the actual date).
They probably married in Tavistock but the PRs don't go back far enough to see.
It must be this Dewnes who married Henry Vosper as (1) her cousin with the same name married Thomas Polwhele in 1605/6 (evidence for both from wills), and her uncle John's monument in Tavistock Church shows it was his daughter Dionise who married Thomas Polwhele.
Also, Dewnes 2nd husband Sir William Strode mentions a brother of Dewnes, Nicholas, in his will - this Dewnes had such a brother, Dewnes daughter of her uncle John did not.
Children - In Henry's will he leaves a bequest to his wife and her heirs, but otherwise bequests were to his brothers Robert and John and John's heirs. He mentions no children or other descendants of his own, so it seems reasonable to suppose if he had had any children they did not survive him.
Last Modified 22 Sep 2025 Family ID F8514 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Sir William STRODE, Knight, b. Abt 1562, d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 75 years)
Other Partners: Mary SOUTHCOTE m. 15 Jul 1581Married 31 Mar 1625 St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 May 2016)
"William Strode knight and Mistres Dewnes Vosper were marryed the 31 of March" - under heading 'March 1625' Dewnes had no children with Sir William, and may have had none by her previous marriage, certainly no step-children are mentioned in her husband's will. On marrying William she became a step-mother, with some of his children in their teens.
Second son William was aged about 30 when they married, but included Dewnes when he had a monument placed in Plympton St Mary Church in memory of his parents, saying in the incription:
"Patri Guilielmo, matri Mariæ et Dionysiæ quasi matri Monumentum hoc posuit Guilielmus Strode" - "To his father William, to his mother Mary and to Dionise, virtually a mother to him, William Strode placed this monument".
Who was Dewnes?
On the Glanville tree on p. 411 of Vivian (Devon Visitations) Vivian shows Dewnes' as marrying Sir William Strode after her marriage to Thomas Polwhele.
Sir William Strode did marry in Tavistock, presumably his bride's parish as he was of Newnham in Plympton St. Mary, on 31 March 1625, and a John Glanville was involved with the marriage settlement (see DHC catalogue entry for rec. 1039 M/F 13). This shows that Dewnes' was a widow when she married William.
Despite this on p. 719 of Vivian (Devon visitations, the Strode tree) Vivian shows Sir William Strode's 2nd wife as Dewnes Vosper daughter of Stephen Vosper. This seems to be an error, maybe Stephen was Dewnes' father-in-law. Of course Dewnes' could have been both wife and daughter of a Vosper, but the arms on a monument in Plympton St. Mary's Church to William and his two wives shows Dewnes' arms as the Glanville ones.
The question then is which Dewnes Glanville did Sir William marry, the daughter of Judge John (as shown by Vivian) or of his brother Nicholas (as on Wikipedia, citing the Glanville tree in Vivian despite not agreeing)?
We know that one married Henry VOSPER bet 1598 and 1600, and the other married (as a spinster) to Thomas POLWHELE in St Breage in Cornwall in 1606. The latter is clearly the daughter of John Glanville and Alice Skirret: John's monument in Tavistock Church shows his daughter as having married Thomas POLWHELE and in 1606 Alice was living with her second husband at Godolphin in St. Breage parish.
Last Modified 4 Aug 2025 Family ID F8515 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Married - 31 Mar 1625 - St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England 
Buried - 16 Sep 1635 - The Church of St. Mary Blessed Virgin, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
