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Tree: All Trees Alexander Gee of Rothley Charles and Hannah Gee Eason Gee m Jane Byars Edwin John Culverhouse Gee John Gee m. Ann -- Billinge, Wigan, Lancs John Gee of Westchester & Dutchess Counties, NY Peter m Grace Samuel Gee of Mellor Solomon Gee Thomas Gee c 1795 (Hattersley, Hyde) William J. Gee  

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1		"Reforming Mayor" of Chester and Founder of the Chester Races Status: Located. Henry Gee (d. 1545) was sheriff and "reforming mayor" of Chester. His son, Edmund, also served as sheriff and mayor.
2		All Saints, Orpington Status: Located. A ledger stone within the alter rails is inscribed to Mary Gee (1702), wife of William Gee, Esq., of Bishop Burton. In the great chancel, on the north side, are memorials to Richard Gee (1727) and his widow Philippa (1744). There are monuments to William Gee (1815), Richard Gee (1817) and Richard Carew (1816).
3		Anna Gerrish Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1734 Status: Located. Portrait of the wife of Rev. Joshua Gee, depicted wearing a white satin gown. John Smibert was colonial America's first portrait painter. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
4		Bassetsbury Manor, home of Sir Orlando Gee Status: Located. Located in High Wycombe, Bucks. Sir Orlando Gee lived here from 1689 to 1717.
5		Beddington House, lithograph by Joseph Nash Status: Located. Substantial mansion with a stunning hammerbeam roof, set in Beddington Park. Built by Sir Francis Carew. Visitors include Henry VII, Queen Elizabeth I and Jane Seymour. The estate passed to Richard Gee, who took the name and arms of Carew.
6		Beverley Minster Part of a monastery founded around 700 AD, it survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. Several Gee of Bishop Burton and Beverley are buried here.
7		Bishop Burton Hall around 1720, sketch by Samuel Buck Status: Located. This Jacobean hall, later known as the Low Hall, was built by Sir William Gee (bc 1562). This sketch, done by Samuel Buck around 1720, is from his notebooks. The Hall-Watt family replaced it with the Victorian High Hall in 1874.
8		Bishop Burton, estate of Sir William Gee Status: Located. This is now Bishop Burton College.	Bishop Burton, Yorkshire William GEE
9		Brass Inscription for Elizabeth Gee Status: Unmarked. "Dame Elizabeth heare interred is that ladie was of late to Calverley Knighte but first espovsed to Henrye Gee her mate who rvled heare a patron raer as cittie well can shewe. Thvs she in wvrship rvne her race and stille in vertew grew. And soe died Jan 28/[15]79." Over her grave until the rebuilding of the church, then in the tower, now…
10		Brass Inscription for Henry Gee d 1545, Sheriff and twice Mayor of Chester Status: Unmarked. "Herr under lyeth buryed the body of Henrye Gee some tymes Mayor of this cetye of Chester, whyche d'cessyde the vj day of September, An'o d'ni m'o v'e xlv'o on whois soulle Jhu have merci." This is a drawing of the monument, which was in place until the rebuilding. The burial was in the upper aisle by the chancel but is now unmarked. Note the…
11		Carved Wooden Memorial for Edmond Gee Status: Unmarked. This is a drawing of the wooden memorial, which was located in Holy Trinity, Chester, in the upper aisle by the chancel. Following the rebuilding, the present location is now unmarked. In cadency the mullet (star shape, second shield from the right) denotes the third son.
12		Colne House, Earls Colne, principal seat among the many estates of Osgood Gee, Esq. Status: Located. His widow, Mary, became a famous philanthropist. There is a book on Mary and the house, by S.M. Jarvis.
13		Dame Hannah (Gee) Remington, daughter of Sir Wm Gee of Bishop Burton, and her 20 children (1647) Status: Located. Painted with husband Sir Thomas Remington of Lund in their home. The painting shows their 15 living children, with shrouds indicating five who had died.
14		Dr. Samuel Jones Gee, Pediatrician (1839-1911). Oil portrait by Charles Vigor, c. 1900. Status: Located. One of the greatest clinical teachers of the Victorian era, he was appointed Physician to the Prince of Wales (later King George V) in 1901. He wrote extensively and was the first to identify coeliac disease.
15		Elizabeth Gee of Cottingham Hall, portrait by Thomas Ellerby (1841) Status: Located. Oil on canvas. A companion portrait to that of her husband, Joseph Gee.
16		Fenton House Status: Located. Joshua Gee (1667-1730) bought Fenton House in 1707. It is the oldest and one of the largest mansions in Hampstead, dating from 1693. Architecturally outstanding, it is now maintained by the National Trust and can be visited. The gate bears the initials of Joshua and his wife.
17		First Appearance of the Name Gee (1332-1333) Status: Located. Robert and William Gee are the first and last names of those taxed in Skidbrooke, a village near Saltfleet, which is near the mouth of the Humber not far from Hull. Parliament granted Edward III a large subsidy. --Subsidy Roll for Skidbrooke
18		Gee Family Tomb, Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, MA Status: Located. Joshua Gee (d. 1724) became a prosperous Boston shipwright. He bought Tomb #3 around 1717. This marker memorializes the family.	Peter GEE
19		Gee--Shalcross Deed 1691 John Gee senior, John Gee junior and Joseph Gee had previously mortgaged the property to Reginald Bretland. In this document Breland gives his consent (he has signed with a small armorial seal) for the Gees to sell the property to John Shalcrosse. The parties sealed the document with a signet seal, impressed into wax on a parchment tag…
20		Harry Simpson Gee (1842-1924) A large and handsome painting was donated to the University of Leicester in 2010 by Clive Simpson Gee, great-grandson of H. S. Gee. Another large painting was given to the Leicester Town Hall portrait collection by HSBC Bank, following the closure of its Granby Street branch in the same year. To mark these donations, Caroline Wessel has written…
21		Hepworth Hall, manor house of Osgood Gee, Esq Status: Located. Hepworth, or Hipworth, is of great antiquity, it appears in Domesday book. It extended into Gosfield, Sible Hedingham, Great and Little Maplestead, Pebmarsh and the town of Halstead.
22		Holy Trinity Church, Hull--the Nave Status: Located. A mob demolished the stained glass in 1575, during the Reformation. The great east window was so damaged that it fell down completely. William Gee, Mayor at the time, restored it at his own expense.
23		Holy Trinity, Halstead. Built 1843/4 through the generosity of Mrs. Mary Gee of Colne House, Earls Colne, widow of Osgood Gee. Status: Located. One of the first examples of a Gothic Revival church in the Early English style. George Gilbert Scott was the architect. Inside, graceful arcades divide the lofty clerestoried nave from the aisles. Mary Gee also met most of the cost of building St. James, Greenstead Green in 1845.
24		In America before 1631 Status: Located. In New Hampshire (Ordione's Point, in today's Rye, NH) by 1631, perhaps as early as 1623 or 1624. Living in George Mason's stone manor house.
25		Joseph Gee of Cottingham Hall Status: Located. Hull’s dominant ship owner in both sail and steam from around 1830 to 1860.
26		Joseph Gee of Cottingham Hall, portrait by Thomas Ellerby (1841). Status: Located. Oil on canvas. Now at the Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull.
27		Joshua Gee monument, Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, MA Status: Located. Joshua Gee was buried here near the Old North Church, along with his co-pastor, Cotton Mather. He originally bought this plot by deed, this was the marker for the family mausoleum.	Joshua GEE
28		Knighton Frith Home of Henry Simpson Gee (1842-1924).
29		Leicestershire Gee's -- Oldest Family Line? Status: Located. The early Gee's in Leicestershire may represent the oldest Gee line.
30		Merchant's Mark of Edmond Gee of Chester (d. 1550) Status: Located. Sketch taken from memorial to Edmond and Henry Gee, Holy Trinity, Chester.
31		Merchant's Mark of Henry Gee of Chester (d. 1545). Status: Located. Note the similarity with the merchant's mark of William Gee, Merchant of the Staple and mayor of Hull. This mark appeared on Henry's brass monument in Holy Trinity, Chester.
32		Merchant's Mark of William Gee of Hull Status: Located. This mark is carved several time in the walls of the Hull Grammar School, for which William was a benefactor.	William GEE
33		Monument for Rachel, wife of William Gee Esq. of Bishop Burton, and her daughter Elizabeth Status: Located. Rachel was the wife of William Gee Esq. of Bishop Burton. She died in 1649 at age 33. Her small daughter Elizabeth kneels at her head.
34		Monument to Sir William Gee in York Minster Status: Located. Polychrome monument to Sir William Gee. York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe.	William GEE
35		Old Grammar School, Hull Status: Located. Built on the Market Square in 1583. Endowed by William Gee with 20,000 bricks and 80 pounds sterling. The building was used by the school until 1875. It is now the Hands-On History Museum.	Hull Grammar School, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire
36		Old Grammar School, Hull--Upper Chamber Status: Located. Three stones in the walls show William Gee's merchant-mark and the completion date (1583). Before restoration in 1883 there were two hatchments in the usual lozenge shape, one for a member of the Gee family, probably William Gee.
37		Once Thought to be William Gee, Sheriff & Twice Mayor of Hull Status: Located. Originally believed to be of William Gee. After a recent cleaning this painting has been identified by the coat of arms (at upper right) as that of Alderman John Smith. Painting hangs in what was originally the Hull Grammar School, of which William Gee was a benefactor.	William GEE
38		Orpington Priory Status: Located. A fine example of a medieval flint 'hall house' rebuilt in 1290, it was owned by the Orpington Gee's for 200 years. It was originally a rectory and a stopping place for the priors of Canterbury Cathedral. A solar wing was added in 1393. It now houses a museum and public library.
39		Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790. Status: Located. Waist length portrait in oil. Currently at the Denver Art Museum.
40		Peele Hall, Little Mouldsworth (today's Horton-cum-Peele) Status: Located. Originally built within a moat, it was purchased by Henry Gee, Mayor of Chester, who left it to his daughter Anne. Wm III was entertained here. It was later purchased by the Earl of Plymouth. A peel was the fortified house of a person of significance, although not a noble. Likely this defended the Welsh border.
41		Peter Gee and wife Grace, tombstones in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston Status: Located. Founders of the line of Boston Gee's, they lie here in good company with Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock.	Peter GEE
42		Principio Furnace (1715) Status: Located. First ironworks in Maryland. Investors Augustine and Lawrence Washington (father and brother of George Washington), Joshua, Samuel and Osgood Gee and Sir Nicholas Carew, Bart.
43		Rev. Joshua Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1733 Status: Located. This eighteenth-century copy in oils is by John Smibert, colonial America's first portrait painter. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.	Joshua GEE
44		Richard Gee, surveyor. Portrait by John Cawse, 1804. Status: Located. Richard Gee (ca 1756-1811) of Northamptonshire was a surveyor and enclosure commissioner.
45		Rothley in Domesday Book (image) Status: Located. The Norman inventory in 1086 of the land of Hugh d'Avranches in Guthlaxton Wapentake, Leicestershire. (Folio 237r.) See the translation (under Documents).
46		Rothley in Domesday Book (translation) Status: Located. This translates the description of the lands of Hugh d'Avranches at Rothley. Folio 237r. See the image (under Photos).
47		Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century Status: Located. Map showing field names.
48		Sheriff, Mayor and Benefactor, and his Son Secretary to King James I Status: Located. History of the move from Rothley, Leicestershire, to Hull. William became Merchant of the Staple, Sheriff and Mayor. His son Sir William became Keeper of the Seal for James I, and was in both the Privy Council and the Council of the North.	William GEE William GEE
49		Sir Orlando Gee, steward to the Earls of Northumberland and Registrar to the Admiralty. Monument by Francis Bird (1705). Status: Located. Bust to the waist in white marble, with elaborate peruke and long flowing cravat, holding a scroll and addressing us. In the west gallery of All Saints, Church Street, Isleworth.
50		Solomon Gee Headstone Status: Located. Solomon and his wife were buried in Lyme in the old stone Church burying ground, in the thirteenth row starting at the North Wall in the North East Section, Lyme, CT.	Solomon Gee