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To mowsehowse and a j m , I have just seen your entries.  You both need to see John Street's 'A Genealogy of the Rouses of Devon' in which chapter 6 is devoted to what he calls Rowse of Wembury.   It has all the details of the John Hele Rowses.
Copies of Street's book in England are at the Society of Genealogists and libraries in Exeter and Plymouth. Your local librarian might help locate a copy for you
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Graham:   Have just seen your entry.    Much work has been done on the ROUSE/ROUS/ROWSE family of Devon and Cornwall.  Copies of Street's A Genealogy of the Rouses of Devon and Peters' A Rouse Family of Devon (both include Cornish branches) are in West Country Studies library, Devon FHS library (both in Exeter) and the Soc. of Genealogists (London)   To date it has been impossible proving that the Anthony bap Truro 1619 was the son of William, the one-time MP for Truro (William married Mary Robarts).
The Anthony born 1658  was 3rd child of Anthony and Frances and from them the line from St Agnes is well documented to the present day although Burke once carried an entirely erroneous family tree.  (No descent is known from Anthony's brother or sister  -  Stephen baptised 1654 and Frances bap 1655)
Col. David Rouse (pronounced Roose) of this family has only recently died 
The likelihood is that any ROUS person born in Devon or Cornwall before 1600  that (so far) cannot be proved to be linked to the main line at St. Dominic or Modbury came from a junior line two, three or more generations before Sir Anthony Rous (died 1620) of Halton at St. Dominic.

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