Male or Female? Cambourne 1635

[Trees]

Help I have a Lowdie RULE on my tree I have taken the baptism from the Family Search P002071      1558 - 1580 which I thought was an extraction of the Camborne register and therefor Correct 
LOWDIE RULE  male father Jo.  no mother given

Now another chatter has queried this as they have a marriage for said lowdie but SHE was the bride of JOHN TEMBEY   07 JUL 1666      Camborne
The marriage appears on the family search site several times but only as submitted entries

Can any one be kind enough to check the registers for us please.

Trees

[Barbara F]

Hello Trees

Have you seen this site?

http://www.rootschat.com/links/06a1/

This indicates that Lowdie was a twin.  I found the link via the Cornwall OPC site

http://www.cornwall-opc.org/index.htm

Barbara

[osprey]

the transcription here
http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Par_new/a_d/camborne.php

says twin children of John Rule. If they were both boys, it might say twin sons.

I wouldn't put too much trust in the IGI decision on gender. The baptism for the child I'm pretty sure is my gggrandmother says son with no first name on the IGI batch. The original register says child, not son, so looks like guesswork -  correct father & year for my relative.

Wonder if Lowdie is a version of Loveday? Just checked my dictionary of first names Loveday also' found as Lowdy'.

 

sorry Barbara you posted while I was typing but I'll go ahead for Loveday theory

[Trees]

ooh so Osprey you are also a family member A BiG welcome to our extended family have you seen the long discussion I had with other chatters on the Cornwall board"Rule Brynant and Bray,," please take a look at our web site and let me have your comments thoughts etc its our bray line
So Lowdie was a girl
Trees

[toni*]

Possibly if you find a marriage for Lowdrie that will help determine the gender

 

[Trees]

Thats what started all this toni** wimbush1975 had a marriage where lowdie was the bride and the only one we found was the one as a male on my tree whattaistaka to maka 
Trees

[osprey]

sorry to disappiont ,Trees, but I don't think I have any connection to Rule, Bryant & Bray.

 

[Trees]

Sorry Osprey I thought you had said lowdrie was your gt x Gran i can see now you were giving a different example sorry  but we still belong to the great rootschat family 
I like the Loveday idea
Trees

[cornish maid]

Hi there,

I managed to check the transcripts of the Registers today.  The entry reads:

Rule, Robert and Lowdie, twin children of Jo.  11 March 1634

Not much help in itself as to whether Lowdie is a girl or a boy.  However, I too think that if both children were girls or both were boys, then the register would probably have said "twin daughters of" or "twin sons of".  I also checked the transcripts for the marriage you have already come across and this reads:

Timbe, John and Lowdy Rule   7 July 1666

We then have a Lovdey Tembey buried on 28 December 1704 at Camborne.  (I could not find a Lowdie/Lowdy Rule buried in Camborne at any time.)

I would say that Lowdie/Lowdy and Lovdey are one and the same person, and that she was a girl.  I think Osprey is right about the Loveday theory. 

Hope this helps a bit.