page_title: Manor of Broad Hempston
section_title: Rowe
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Broad Hempston / Descent of the manor / Rowe
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of "Martyn of Hempston" (Broad Hempston) in Devon: Argent, on two bars gules three crosses formée or. (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.558). These are differenced arms of the ancient family of Martyn / Martin, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon (Argent, two bars gules).
context_page_description: The manor of Broad Hempston was an historic manor situated in Devon, England, about 4 miles north of Totnes. The present village known as Broadhempston was the chief settlement within the manor and remains the location of the ancient parish church of St Peter and St Paul.
context_section_description: Hempston was purchased from the West family by John Rowe (1509-1592) of Kingston in the parish of Staverton, Devon, whose monumental brass survives at Staverton Church. He was the son and heir of John Rowe (d. 1544) of Kingston, serjeant-at-law. It remained a possession of the Rowe family for several generations. A branch of the Rowe family lived at Bearton, within the parish of Broad Hempston, for nearly two and a half centuries. Giles Hussey (1710–1788), the artist who adopted the theory of drawing his portraits according to musical or harmonic proportion, resided some years at Bearton with his nephew Mr. Rowe (d. pre-1822) and died there in 1788 and was buried at Broad Hempston Church. Giles Hussey had inherited an ancient family estate in Dorset, which he bequeathed to his nephew Mr. Rowe of Bearton, who in compliance with the bequest adopted the surname Hussey. In 1822 Bearton was the property of his widow, and was occupied as a farm-house.
caption: Arms of Martin of Hempston Cauntelow[25]
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