Jago Vowell1,2

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FatherGevaph Vowell
     Jago was born. He was of Pembroke, South Wales. Jago is usually given as the Cornish for the name James and as an alternate spelling for Iago. Jago married Alice Hooker in Devonshire, England.3 Due to the great respect that he held for his father-in-law and of his estates and fortune, Jago elected to use the Hooker surname and became to be known as Vowell alias Hooker.

Citations

  1. [S1368] "Jago."
  2. [S1660] J. L. Vivian, The visitations of the county of Devon: Comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, page 479 - Hooker alias Vowell.
  3. [S1367] Mary Tacher Rosemary Washburn, Ancestry of William Howard Taft, page 40.