Robert II 2 Lowseley, father of Alice

From the Hyten family archive; subject is Robert II Lowseley (1572–c.1625), a 13× great-grandparent of the compiler in the paternal-grandfather (PP) line. This entry covers his Yorkshire birth, marriage to Elizabeth Mellynge, his daughter Alice, his death in the City of London, and the era context of late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Notable: an early-modern English forebear bridging Yorkshire and London at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Robert II Lowseley, born in 1572 in Yorkshire, England, and dying about 1625 in the City of London, stands among the early-modern English forebears of the Hyten line. His birth in the heart of Yorkshire placed him in one of the largest and most storied counties of Elizabethan England, a region of moors, market towns, and ancient parishes whose families often maintained continuity across generations of yeomen, tradesmen, and minor gentry. The latter half of the sixteenth century, into which Robert was born, was an age of consolidation under Queen Elizabeth I, marked by the settling of the English Reformation, the flowering of letters and drama, and the steady drift of ambitious provincial families toward the capital.

Robert was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Mellynge, and of their union there is recorded a daughter, Alice Marchell Lowesley, who herself lived until 1639. Through Alice the line continued forward into the generations whose descendants would, in time, cross the Atlantic and contribute to the American branches of the family.

That Robert died in the City of London about 1625 is itself a detail of some significance, for it suggests a movement — whether of his own person or of his household — from the northern county of his birth to the bustling capital on the Thames. The London of 1625 was a city in transition: James I died in that very year, succeeded by Charles I, and the metropolis was already a teeming center of commerce, shipping, and craft, soon to be ravaged again by plague. Robert's passing in such a place situates him within the wider currents of early Stuart England.

Robert II Lowseley was a thirteenth great-grandfather of the compiler on the paternal-grandfather (PP) line.