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![Orpington Priory Orpington Priory](photos/thumb_) | 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. |
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![Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790. Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790.](photos/thumb_Osgood%20Gee%20by%20Benj%20West) | Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790. Status: Located. Waist length portrait in oil. Currently at the Denver Art Museum. |
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![Peele Hall, Little Mouldsworth (today's Horton-cum-Peele) Peele Hall, Little Mouldsworth (today's Horton-cum-Peele)](photos/thumb_Peele%20Hall%20%28aerial%20photo%29) | 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. |
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![Peter Gee and wife Grace, tombstones in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston Peter Gee and wife Grace, tombstones in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston](headstones/thumb_Peter%26Grace%20Gee) | 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. |
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![Principio Furnace (1715) Principio Furnace (1715)](photos/thumb_Principio_Furnace) | 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. |
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![Rev. Joshua Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1733 Rev. Joshua Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1733](photos/thumb_portraitRevJoshuaGee%2C1733) | 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. |
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![Richard Gee, surveyor. Portrait by John Cawse, 1804. Richard Gee, surveyor. Portrait by John Cawse, 1804.](photos/thumb_Richard%20Gee%20%28ca%201756-1811%29) | Richard Gee, surveyor. Portrait by John Cawse, 1804. Status: Located. Richard Gee (ca 1756-1811) of Northamptonshire was a surveyor and enclosure commissioner. |
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![Rothley in Domesday Book (image) Rothley in Domesday Book (image)](documents/Domesday%20thumbnail.gif) | 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). |
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![Rothley in Domesday Book (translation) Rothley in Domesday Book (translation)](documents/Domesday%20%28text%29.gif) | 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). |
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![Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century](photos/thumb_rothleyin1780) | Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century Status: Located. Map showing field names. |
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![Samuel Jones Gee, M.D., Pediatrician (1839-1911) Samuel Jones Gee, M.D., Pediatrician (1839-1911)](histories/thumb_Dr.%20Samuel%20Jones%20Gee.jpg) | Samuel Jones Gee, M.D., Pediatrician (1839-1911) Status: Located. One of the greatest clinical teachers of the Victorian era, Dr. Gee 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. Oil portrait by Charles Vigor, c. 1900.
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![Sir Orlando Gee, steward to the Earls of Northumberland and Registrar to the Admiralty. Monument by Francis Bird (1705). Sir Orlando Gee, steward to the Earls of Northumberland and Registrar to the Admiralty. Monument by Francis Bird (1705).](headstones/thumb_Monjument%20to%20Sir%20Orlando%20Gee) | 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. |
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![Solomon Gee Headstone Solomon Gee Headstone](headstones/thumb_Solomon%20Gee%20Head%20Stone%202.jpg) | 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.
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![St. George's Beckenham St. George's Beckenham](photos/thumb_Beckenham%20St.%20George%27s.jpg) | St. George's Beckenham In the nave, a monument to Osgood Gee Esq. (1766). |
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![St. Giles, Great Maplestead, memorial to Osgood Gee, Esq. St. Giles, Great Maplestead, memorial to Osgood Gee, Esq.](photos/thumb_St%20Giles%2C%20Maplestead) | St. Giles, Great Maplestead, memorial to Osgood Gee, Esq. Status: Located. A mural monumental inscription in the chancel commemorates Osgood Gee, Esq. of Hepworth Hall and other nearby estates. |
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![Thomas Mapplebeck's house at 39 Lowgate, Hull (early 1800's) Thomas Mapplebeck's house at 39 Lowgate, Hull (early 1800's)](photos/thumb_30%20Lowgate%2C%20Hull--drawing%20by%20Mapplebeck.jpg) | Thomas Mapplebeck's house at 39 Lowgate, Hull (early 1800's) Drawing of 39 Lowgate, Kinston-upon-Hull by Thomas Mapplebeck. Mapplebeck was born in 1819 in this house rented from the Gee family. This is one of the few signed and dated drawings by Mapplebeck. Courtesy East Yorkshire Family History Society. |
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![Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (image) Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (image)](documents/Henry%20Gee%20Will--thumbnail.jpg) | Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (image) Status: Located. Henry was Sheriff and twice Mayor of Chester. He died in 1545. His son Edmund also became Sheriff and Mayor. |
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![Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (text) Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (text)](documents/Henry%20Gee%20Will%20%28text%29.gif) | Will of Henry Gee, d. 1545 (text) Status: Located. Sheriff and twice Mayor of Chester, his will leaves his house on Watergate Street in Chester, The Peel in Little Mouldsworth and his manor in Manley among other properties. |
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