Col.
Gerard
Fowke
Born about in Gunston, Staffordshire, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Roger Fowke Esq.
and Mary (Bayley) Fowke
Brother of
Thomas Fowke
Husband of
Anne (Thoroughgood) Fowke
— married
about 1661 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Died before
before about age 40
in Charles County, Province of Maryland [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Gerard Fowke is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society
Gerard Fowke was a Virginia colonist.
Birth and Parents
Col. Gerard Fowke was the son of Roger Fowke, Esq. of Gunston, Staffordshire and Mary Bayley.[1][2] He was likely born in Staffordshire, England,[3][4] probably at Gunston (near Brewood), Staffordshire, where his father held lands. He has been said by some to have been his parents' sixth son,[5] however, Gerard's date of birth is unknown and is estimated (see research note, below). He is named in his father's 1649 will in which he was a main beneficiary.[6][7]
Immigration to America
Gerard immigrated by 1654[8] to Westmoreland County, in the Northern Neck of Virginia.[1] His travel to the Colony was sponsored by Mr. Thomas Fowke of that place:[8] a record of a patent of 10 June 1654 refers to land assigned to Gerard's brother Thomas along the Potomac River for the transport of 27 persons, including Thomas and Gerard.[9] In July 1655 he described himself as "of the County of Westmorland in the river of Potomacke".[10]
Virginia
Gerard was Justice of Westmoreland County in 1655[11] and was Captain of the Virginia forces in 1658.[5] He was named as the executor of the 11 May 1660 will of his brother, Thomas Fowke, proved 24 June 1663.[12] He was reappointed as a Justice in April 1661.[13]
In 1658 Gerard became involved in disputes between Giles Brent and Native Americans. An agreement between Giles Brent and the "king of Potomack" was recorded on 20 August 1658.[14] But difficulties continued. In 1661 Giles Brent, Gerard Fowke and two others were accused of "having injured and affronted Wahonganocke, King of the Potomac Indians", and having illegally imprisoned him - a "high misdemeanor" which Giles Brent and Gerard admitted. Gerard himself was also charged with allowing "a murtherer of the English delivered bound into his custody by Wahanganocke" to escape. Commissioners were appointed to resolve land disputes between Gerard and Wahanganocke. Gerard was fined heavily, and ordered to pay compensation to Wahanganocke. On 23 March 1661/2 the Virginia Assembly of Burgesses barred Gerard and Giles Brent "forever" from holding any civil or military public office. Despite this, Gerard was again appointed as a Justice on 7 August 1662.[15] He was elected as a Burgess of Westmoreland County in 1663,[1][5][16][17] with his credentials being checked by a special committee.[3][5] No record has been found of the ban on his holding office being rescinded, but it seems to have been short-lived.
On 30 April 1664, Gerard obtained a patent for 1200 acres of land "abutting northerly on the Potomac, westerly on the Pescatansey creek" and on 7 September 1664, he deeded 400 acres of this land to his "beloved kinsman Richard Hope".[5]
Maryland
Gerard was still a Burgess for Westmoreland County in 1665.[1][5][16][17] About that year he removed to Charles County, Maryland, where he owned a plantation[5] and, according to Douglas Richardson, resided at Gunston Hall (see research note, below). He served as a member of the Charles County Assembly in 1666[1][5][16] and as one of the commissioners for Charles County in 1667.[5]
Marriage and Children
Gerard married about 1661 Anne Thoroughgood, widow of Job Chandler of Virginia and Maryland,[18] and daughter of Capt. Adam Thoroughgood, Gent. of Virginia[16][19] and his wife, Sarah Offley.[1][4] Anne brought to the marriage three children from her first marriage: Anne, William and Richard Chandler.[16] Gerard and Anne had two sons and two daughters together:
- Adam,[1][4][19] died in infancy[3][5][16]
- Gerard,[1] born 1662/3, died 1734;[19] married twice,[3] first to _____ Lomax and second to Sarah Burdett[3][4][16]
- Mary, wife of Col. George Mason;[1][4][5][19] Mary died about 1701[16]
- Elizabeth, wife of William Dent[1][4][5][16][19]
Death
Gerard died shortly before 30 October 1669, when his widow Anne was granted administration of his estate.[1][16] Anne, was living on 2 October 1702,[1] when she was mentioned in the will of their son-in-law William Dent.[16]
Research Notes
Identity
It is uncertain if this is the Gerard who was Gentleman of the bedchamber to King Charles I and Colonel in the British Army and who escaped to Virginia after the battle of Worcester in 1651.[5] The Archives of Maryland Legislature gives this Gerard an immigration date of 1651 and removal to Maryland in 1654.[4] Many sources, such as Hayden in Virginia Genealogies (1891)[3] attribute this description to the Gerard of this profile: however Richardson and Dorman, the most contemporary sources, do not. The Gerard of this biography came to Virginia in 1654, as indicated above, and seems to have been in Virginia as late as 1665.
Hayden mentions a theory held by some that there was more than one Colonel called Gerard Fowke in Virginia in the early 1660s.[3] This theory may have derived at least in part from a Gerard Fowke being barred forever from public office in 1662 and a Gerard Fowke being approved as a Burgess the next year: there may have been a belief that these cannot have been the same person. There is, though, nothing to indicate the existence of two people called Colonel Gerard Fowke in Virginia in the first half of the 1660s.
Possible First Wife
Several sources give Gerard a first wife, name unknown (perhaps ____ Hope), with whom he had issue: Jean, who married a Mercer[4][19] and Gerard, of whom there is no further record[5] and who likely died in infancy.
Estimated Birth
See discussion here: G2G dated February 2015. Note that a 1625 baptism was found for Gerard Fowke in Staffordshire, but it is for a different Gerard (son of Gerard).
Gunston Hall
Richardson states that Gerard removed to Gunston Hall in Charles County, Maryland, probably before 1666. If so, there was more than one Gunston Hall: a different Gunston Hall is located in Mason Neck, Virginia and was built between 1755-1759, long after Gerard's death. See: https://gunstonhall.org/ and the Wikipedia article on Gunston Hall, Virginia.
An article in the 1916 issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine says that among the properties Gerard owned in Charles County, Maryland were "Gunston", "Cedar Hill" and "Hilltop".[5]
Gunston(e), Brewood, Staffordshire was the home of Gerard's father.[20] Gerard's daughter Mary married George Mason, and she was grandmother of the George Mason who built the Gunston Hall in Virginia.
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. II, page 227, FOWKE 15, Google Books.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, vol. III, page 14, FOWKE 20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Horace Edwin Hayden. Virginia Genealogies. Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1891. Online at HathiTrust, pages 155-156.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789. Vol. 426, 1985, page 326. Archives of Maryland Online.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 Gerard Fowke. "Colonel Gerard Fowke of Virginia and Maryland from 1651" in Maryland Historical Magazine, Mar 1921, Volume 16, Issue No. 1, pages 1-19. pdf
- ↑ The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 210 Ancestry image.
- ↑ The National Archives, ref. PROB 11/210/360, Will of Roger Fowke of Brewood, Staffordshire, Discovery Centre catalogue entry.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 George Cabell Greer. Early Virginia Immigrants. Richmond, VA: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912. HathiTrust page 118.
- ↑ Neil Marion Nugent. Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1800, Dietz Print Co (Richmond, Virginia), 1934, pp. 297-298, Internet Archive
- ↑ 1653-1657 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills; [Beverley Fleet]; p.38, quoted on the website "Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties", maintained by Mike Marshall, web, accessed 11 September 2023
- ↑ 1653-1657 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills; [Beverley Fleet]; Page 26, quoted on the website "Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties", maintained by Mike Marshall, web, accessed 11 September 2023: gives date as 22 March 1654 which would be 1654/5
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Ancestry Record 4900 #202: abstract.
- ↑ 1659-1661 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 1; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 38 [36], quoted on the website "Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties", maintained by Mike Marshall, web, accessed 11 September 2023
- ↑ Col. Gerard Fowke and the Indians, in 'The William and Mary Quarterly', Vol. 8, No. 1, July 1899, pp. 23-24, Hathi Trust
- ↑ 1661-1662 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 2; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 16-16a [71-71a]. 7 Aug. 1662, quoted on the website "Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties", maintained by Mike Marshall, web, accessed 11 September 2023
- ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 John Frederick Dorman. Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5. 4th Ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004). Vol. III, pages 329-330 (Ann Thorowgood); pages 332-338 (their issue).
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Jamestowne Society website, Fowke, Gerrard - A2901; died 1669 MD, Westmoreland Co: 1663-1665 (Burgess). accessed 21 September 2021
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1634-1777 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Barnes, Robert, compiler. Maryland Marriages, 1634–1777. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1975. Ancestry image
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 Robert W. Barnes. British Roots of Maryland Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002, page 199. Ancestry image
- ↑ 'Brewood: Introduction, manors and agriculture', in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5, East Cuttlestone Hundred, ed. L Margaret Midgley (London, 1959), pp. 18-40, British History Online, accessed 8 December 2023
- See also:
- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. I [database on-line]. Ancestry.com image.
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
- This profile was re-developed for the Magna Carta Project on 14 September 2021 by Thiessen-117.
- Gerard Fowke is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix), and is in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Geoffrey de Say (vol. II, pages 226-227 FOWKE). See the Magna Carta Trail below to see the profiles in this trail.
- Also identified in 2015 were possible trails from Gerard Fowke to surety barons William Mowbray (RF) and Robert de Vere (RF), however these trails have not been verified and are no longer intact. Research is needed to determine whether these trails exist.
- See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
Magna Carta Trails
- Unbadged Richardson-documented trail to Say (MCA II:226-227 FOWKE):
- Gateway Ancestor Gerard Fowke (badged/100% 5-star)
- 1. Gerard is the son of Roger Fowke (badged/R&A 16 September 2021)
- 2. Roger is the son of John Fowke (badged/R&A 17 September 2021)
- 3. John is the son of Jane Raynesford (badged/R&A 23 September 2021)
- 4. Jane is the daughter of John Raynesford (badged/R&A 28 October 2021)
- 5. John is the son of John Raynsford (badged/R&A 28 October 2021)
- 6. John is the son of William Raynsford (badged/R&A 28 October 2021)
- 7. William is the son of Elizabeth Wilcotes (badged/R&A 29 October 2021
- 8. Elizabeth is the daughter of Elizabeth Cheyne (badged/R&A 12 Nov 2021)
- 9. Elizabeth is the daughter of Richard Cheyne (badged/100% 5-star)
- 10. Richard is the son of Robert de Cheyne (badged/R&A 12 Nov 2021)
- 11. Robert is the son of William de Cheyne (badged/R&A 2 Nov 2020)
- 12. William is the son of Agnes de Say (badged/R&A 15 November 2021)
- 13. Agnes is the daughter of William de Say (badged/100% 5-star)
- 14. William is the son of Magna Carta Surety Baron Geoffrey de Say
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There are at least two secondary sources - Richardson, and a 1916 article in the Maryland Historical Magazine - which suggest that Gerard owned a property called Gunston or Gunston Hall in Charles County, Maryland. Richardson will have had a basis for what he said. Richardson is a generally reliable source. He is not infallible and does make some mistakes. Where there is uncertainty about whether what a generally reliable and widely-used secondary source says is right, or it can be demonstrated to be in error, the appropriate course is generally to draw attention to this on the profile. That is what has been done here. If further research proves, or disproves, what Richardson says about Gunston Hall, the profile can be amended.
Speculation about a possible silted-up island is perhaps better avoided.
I have added a little to the research notes.
Report by Gerard on the Doeggs Indians: Mr ffowkes Report of ye great man of ye Geoggs answeare. Mr Gerrard ffowke sent for ye Great man of ye Goeggs according to an ordr of ye last court And three of ye Indians came down & he damanding satisfaction for ye cattle they had killed of Capt Brents, The said Indians denyed that they ever killed any of his, but if any such cattle were killed it was done by forren Indians. But they then tendered about a hundred armes length of Ronoke for ye Gouernr And said they had formerly given both Ronoke & Beauer to Capt Brent although they never did him Injury soe ye said Mr ffowke sent for Capt Brent desireing that he would be pleased to come down & heare what they said or send his man & he sent a note to ye said Mr ffolke undr his hand that he thought it best to referr ye ending of ye treaty wth ye Doeggs. Gerrard ffolke 20 Aug: 1658 This Answear was Recorded. Source: Fowke, Gerard. “Col. Gerard Fowke and the Indians.” The William and Mary Quarterly 8, no. 1 (1899): 23–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/1915791.
According to Wikipedia the Doeg (or Dogue) tribe of Virginia were part of the coastal Algonquian language family. They probably spoke Piscataway or a dialect similar to Nanticoke. According to one account, the Doeg had been based in what is now King George County, but about 50 years before the founding of Jamestown (ca. 1557), they split into three sections, with groups going to Caroline County and Prince William County, and one remaining in King George.[2]: 4 When Captain John Smith visited the upper Potomac River in 1608, he noted that the Taux lived there above Aquia Creek, with their capital Tauxenent located on "Doggs Island" (now Mason Neck, Virginia.) They gathered fish and also grew corn. Other hamlets were at Pamacocack (later anglicized to "Quantico"), along Quantico Creek; Yosococomico (now Powells Creek); and Niopsco (Neabsco Creek). Associated with them were other nearby Algonquian peoples — the Moyauns (Piscataway) on the Maryland side, and the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) in what is now the Washington, DC area. Smith's map also shows a settlement called Tauxsnitania, thought to be near present-day Waterloo in Fauquier County, within the territory of the Siouan-speaking Manahoac tribe.
Selection of Court Records from: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties:
https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2259&tree=Tree1
1653-1657 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills; [Beverley Fleet]; p.69. Patent. 19 Oct 1653. Rd Bennett Esqr, etc. grants Mr Jno Rosier, Clerk, 700 acres in Northumberland Co on N.W. side Nominy River. Adjs a small branch dividing the land from that surveyed for Lewis Burwell deceased, N by W parellel to Nominy River bounding on a tract surveyed for Tho Youll, S by W on Nominy river. This land due Mr Rosier viz: 500 acres part thereof granted to Major Lewis Burwell 17 Nov 1650, and by Burwell assigned to Tho Youll and by him assigned to Rosier. The 200 residue on the North of the 500 acres, due for the transportation of 4 persons into the colony. P.69 John Rosier assigns above to Edmund Brent merchant. 31 Mar 1657. Wit: **Giles Brent**. John Wethers. (prob. Withers). P. 69 Elizabeth Rosier, wife of John Rosier, relinquishes rights in above. 31 Mar 1657. Wit: **Giles Brent**. John Wethers. = witness
1659-1661 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 1; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 34a [32a] [D&W 1, Page 141-42]. 12 Feb. 1660 [1661]. Col. Gerrard Fowke being impowered by law by copartnership with **my brother Thomas Fowke** now residing in England, to Robert Mosely, Gent. 4621/2 acres being the most northerly halfe of a devidend of land formerly sould by Henry Facson to my said brother and Mr. William Monford and adjoyning to the land of **Capt. Giles Brent** on Potomak river. Gerrard Fowke Wit: **Giles Brent,** Fr. Doughty, Robert Sherley. 14 Feb. 1660 [1661]. Acknowledged by Coll. Gerrard Fowke. =
1659-1661 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 1; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 42 [40] [D&W 1, Page 144]. 4 June 1661. Gerrard Fowke of Westmoreland County, Gent., to Joseph Edmans of same, marener. The moyety or halfe of a pattent whereof Mr. Robert Mosely hath the other halfe. Gerrard Fowke Wit: **Giles Brent**, Will: Horton. 26 June 1661. Acknowledged. =
1661-1662 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 2; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 1 [56]. 14 July 1655. It is agreed between the **King of Potomeck** and Gerrard Fowke, Gent.: Gerrard doth give the Kinge an horse with bridle and saddle upon these considerations that Gerrard shall build himself an house on the same land where the Kinge now liveth on and Gerrard shall put thereon what English servants hee pleases and plant tobacco and corne and keepe what cowes hee pleases, hee giveing to him one cow to give his children milk. If the Kinge of Potomeck cause any Indians to joyne in the crop hee shall have one moity according to their laboure. Gerrard Fowke The Kinge of Potomeck marke Wit: Richard Heaberd, William Woodward. 11 Dec. 1661. Recorded. =
1661-1662 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 2; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 3 [58] [D&W 1, Page 158]. 22 Jan. 1661 [1662]. Gerrard Fowke, by vertue of a letter of attorney from Mr. Abraham Rowse, to William Tillet and John Keech [Coock in marginal entry]. For 7000 pounds of tobacco upon 10 October next and 3000 more on 10 Oct. 1663. 800 acres at the head of Pasbitansie Creeke in the woodes adjoyneing William and Richard Heaberd's lands pattent Rowse hath for the land. Gerrard Fowke Wit: Richard Fowke, **George Mason**. - 4 Feb. 1661 [1662]. Acknowledged. =
1661-1662 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 2; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 7 [62] [D&W 1, Page 159-60]. 15 May 1660. Patent of Sir William Berkley, Knt., to Mr. Gerrard Fowke of 268 acres bound westerly by the land of Axton and John Browne, southerly with Potomeck Creeke, easterly with a swampe that partes the land from the land of Thomas Fowke Gent., northerly with the maine wood ... due for the transportation of six servants into this Collony. William Berkley Willm. Claiborne, Secr. 7 Feb. 1661 [1662]. Gerrard Fowke to John Rossier. All my interest of the within pattent. Gerrard Fowke Wit: John Washington, Richard Robinson. 7 Feb. 1661 [1662]. Acknowledged. =
1658-1662 Charles County, Maryland Circuit Court Records; Liber A [TLC]; 8 Jul 1662, Page 216 - 217 517. Mr. Job Chandler of Portobacco, deceased, desired that his 3 children, Nancie, William and Richard Chandler, should each have a share of his estate; Col. Gerrard Fouke of Westmoreland County, gent., recently married their mother and binds himself to Robert Sly of St. Mary's County, merchant and overseer of the children's estate, to carry out the intent of the distribution of cattle to the children; 12 Feb 1661/2; /s/ (Gerrard Fouke; wit. Robert Littlepage, Jeremiah Dickison (mark) = 1662-1666 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 5; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 533 COL. GARRARD FOWKE, 1050 acs. N'umberland Co., 20 Oct. 1665, Page 427, (505). Nly. upon Potomack Riv., S.Ely. upon Chotanck Cr. & S.W. upon land of Jno. Waltham. Granted to SamlI. Taylor 9 Sept. 1653, by him sould to Richard Turney & by him assigned to sd. Fowke. SAME. 925 acs. in Potomack Riv. adj. land of Capt. Giles Brent, 20 Oct. 1665, Page 428, (505). Being the moyety of a pattent granted to Peter Knight & said Capt. Cutt 13 Oct. 1653. Granted to Mrs. Eliz. Cutts 26 Feb. 1656 & by Capt. Jackson, who marryed sd Elizabeth, sould to Capt. Tho. Fowke & now become due to sd. Col. Gerrard as heire to sd. Thomas, dec'd.
edited by Deb Cavel
I have replaced the Uncertain marking for parents on Thomas's profile with a Confident marking. Even though we have no baptism record, we have enough other primary sources to meet the high threshold the Magna Carta Project requires before marking relationships confident. I do not think, though, that the Project will want to ask to adopt Thomas as a Gateway Ancestor as he appears to have left no children, so he was not anyone's direct ancestor.
I am about to start on revising Gerard's profile. I may finish this today, depending how long it takes and what else crops up. Thanks again for your input :-D
edited by Michael Cayley
Also, the sources quoted in Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties are transcripts. I'll take a look at the Maryland Court records which are all online, and make sure they are accurate. In my experience Dorman has been reliable in the past, but it never hurts to check. I have all of these in a file somewhere, transcribed from the originals in 1979 when I had a chance to spend several days at the National Archives and genealogy section of the Public Library in Ft. Worth. I just have to dig that stuff out.
I've also added some sources to Thomas' profile. Same source.
edited by Deb Cavel
Is it possible this Gerard Fowke is the brother of Thomas Fowke?
Edit: In November 1662 Gerard Fowke records the inheritance of 3350 acres of land in Westmoreland County previously granted to his brother Thomas Fowke. Thomas died sometime before this date. [Nugent page 489]
Edit: Thomas Fowke, immigrant to Virginia and husband of Susanna ----, is listed as son of Roger Fowke and Mary Bayley: The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 438.
edited by Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)
So, it looks like there is a family chart (from when not said) that had its information published in 1980, which listed Gerrard and Thomas as brothers but Richardson listed only Gerrard as a Gateway Ancestor. The information that I didn't copy from the quoted material noted that four of the additional brothers named were "Turkey merchants". Richardson's entry for Gerrard (FOWKE 15) states that his wife Anne Thoroughgood, was the granddaughter of "Robert Offley, Turkey merchant of London" (her mother Sarah's father). That connection seems to lend an air of collaborating evidence to Thomas being Gerrard's brother.
@Magna Carta Project - The above, plus information on Thomas's profile (e.g., Gerrard, Thomas and John Bayley were among headrights listed for land in Westmoreland County granted to Thomas in June 1654)... is that enough to connect Thomas Fowke-307 as a son of Roger & Mary or no? I checked through the changes for both parents (and their merged profiles) & it looks like Thomas was never attached... Gerard was added as a son in 2015 to one of the merged profiles (from this changes page).
The question is therefore whether the other evidence is firm enough to make Thomas a Gateway for the Magna Carta Project. I have little expertise in genealogy of the American colonies, nor am I at all familiar with this family, but to me it looks like there is at least a strong probability that Thomas falls within the Magna Carta Project definition of Gateway. But if there is room for some doubt, the better course is to add a research note to both Thomas's and Gerard's profiles. We add Gateways not listed by Richardson only if the evidence is absolutely clearcut.
This book should be included in the Bibliography here
See https://gunstonhall.org/