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Anna Gerrish Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1734
Anna Gerrish Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1734
Status: Located. Portrait of the wife of Rev. Joshua Gee, depicted wearing a white satin gown. John Smibert was colonial America's first portrait painter. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.  
 
2
Bassetsbury Manor, home of Sir Orlando Gee
Bassetsbury Manor, home of Sir Orlando Gee
Status: Located. Located in High Wycombe, Bucks. Sir Orlando Gee lived here from 1689 to 1717. 
 
3
Beddington House, lithograph by Joseph Nash
Beddington House, lithograph by Joseph Nash
Status: Located. Substantial mansion with a stunning hammerbeam roof, set in Beddington Park. Built by Sir Francis Carew. Visitors include Henry VII, Queen Elizabeth I and Jane Seymour. The estate passed to Richard Gee, who took the name and arms of Carew.  
 
4
Beverley Minster
Beverley Minster
Part of a monastery founded around 700 AD, it survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. Several Gee of Bishop Burton and Beverley are buried here. 
 
5
Bishop Burton Hall around 1720, sketch by Samuel Buck
Bishop Burton Hall around 1720, sketch by Samuel Buck
Status: Located. This Jacobean hall, later known as the Low Hall, was built by Sir William Gee (bc 1562). This sketch, done by Samuel Buck around 1720, is from his notebooks. The Hall-Watt family replaced it with the Victorian High Hall in 1874.  
 
6
Bishop Burton, estate of Sir William Gee
Bishop Burton, estate of Sir William Gee
Status: Located. This is now Bishop Burton College. 
 
7
Colne House, Earls Colne, principal seat among the many estates of Osgood Gee, Esq.
Colne House, Earls Colne, principal seat among the many estates of Osgood Gee, Esq.
Status: Located. His widow, Mary, became a famous philanthropist. There is a book on Mary and the house, by S.M. Jarvis.  
 
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Dame Hannah (Gee) Remington, daughter of Sir Wm Gee of Bishop Burton, and her 20 children (1647)
Dame Hannah (Gee) Remington, daughter of Sir Wm Gee of Bishop Burton, and her 20 children (1647)
Status: Located. Painted with husband Sir Thomas Remington of Lund in their home. The painting shows their 15 living children, with shrouds indicating five who had died. 
 
9
Elizabeth Gee of Cottingham Hall (1841)
Elizabeth Gee of Cottingham Hall (1841)
Status: Located. Portrait by Thomas Ellerby. Oil on canvas, this is a companion portrait to that of her husband, Joseph Gee. 
 
10
Fenton House
Fenton House
Status: Located. Joshua Gee (1667-1730) bought Fenton House in 1707. It is the oldest and one of the largest mansions in Hampstead, dating from 1693. Architecturally outstanding, it is now maintained by the National Trust and can be visited. The gate bears the initials of Joshua and his wife. 
 
11
First Appearance of the Name Gee (1332-1333)
First Appearance of the Name Gee (1332-1333)
Status: Located. Robert and William Gee are the first and last names of those taxed in Skidbrooke, a village near Saltfleet, which is near the mouth of the Humber not far from Hull. Parliament granted Edward III a large subsidy. --Subsidy Roll for Skidbrooke 
 
12
Gee--Shalcross Deed 1691
Gee--Shalcross Deed 1691
John Gee senior, John Gee junior and Joseph Gee had previously mortgaged the property to Reginald Bretland. In this document Breland gives his consent (he has signed with a small armorial seal) for the Gees to sell the property to John Shalcrosse.

The parties sealed the document with a signet seal, impressed into wax on a parchment tag… 
 
13
Harry Simpson Gee (1842-1924)
Harry Simpson Gee (1842-1924)
A large and handsome painting was donated to the University of Leicester in 2010 by Clive Simpson Gee, great-grandson of H. S. Gee. Another large painting was given to the Leicester Town Hall portrait collection by HSBC Bank, following the closure of its Granby Street branch in the same year. To mark these donations, Caroline Wessel has written a… 
 
14
Hepworth Hall, manor house of Osgood Gee, Esq
Hepworth Hall, manor house of Osgood Gee, Esq
Status: Located. Hepworth, or Hipworth, is of great antiquity, it appears in Domesday book. It extended into Gosfield, Sible Hedingham, Great and Little Maplestead, Pebmarsh and the town of Halstead.  
 
15
Holy Trinity Church, Hull--the Nave
Holy Trinity Church, Hull--the Nave
Status: Located. A mob demolished the stained glass in 1575, during the Reformation. The great east window was so damaged that it fell down completely. William Gee, Mayor at the time, restored it at his own expense. 
 
16
Holy Trinity, Halstead.
Holy Trinity, Halstead.
Status: Located. One of the first examples of a Gothic Revival church in the Early English style. George Gilbert Scott was the architect. Inside, graceful arcades divide the lofty clerestoried nave from the aisles. Built 1843/4 through the generosity of Mrs. Mary Gee of Colne House, Earls Colne, widow of Osgood Gee. Mary Gee also met most of the cost of… 
 
17
Joseph Gee of Cottingham Hall, portrait by Thomas Ellerby (1841).
Joseph Gee of Cottingham Hall, portrait by Thomas Ellerby (1841).
Status: Located. Oil on canvas. Now at the Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull. 
 
18
Knighton Frith
Knighton Frith
Home of Henry Simpson Gee (1842-1924). 
 
19
Merchant's Mark of Edmond Gee of Chester (d. 1550)
Merchant's Mark of Edmond Gee of Chester (d. 1550)
Status: Located. Sketch taken from memorial to Edmond and Henry Gee, Holy Trinity, Chester. 
 
20
Merchant's Mark of Henry Gee of Chester (d. 1545).
Merchant's Mark of Henry Gee of Chester (d. 1545).
Status: Located. Note the similarity with the merchant's mark of William Gee, Merchant of the Staple and mayor of Hull. This mark appeared on Henry's brass monument in Holy Trinity, Chester. 
 
21
Merchant's Mark of William Gee of Hull
Merchant's Mark of William Gee of Hull
Status: Located. This mark is carved several time in the walls of the Hull Grammar School, for which William was a benefactor. 
 
22
Old Grammar School, Hull
Old Grammar School, Hull
Status: Located. Built on the Market Square in 1583. Endowed by William Gee with 20,000 bricks and 80 pounds sterling. The building was used by the school until 1875. It is now the Hands-On History Museum. 
 
23
Old Grammar School, Hull--Upper Chamber
Old Grammar School, Hull--Upper Chamber
Status: Located. Three stones in the walls show William Gee's merchant-mark and the completion date (1583). Before restoration in 1883 there were two hatchments in the usual lozenge shape, one for a member of the Gee family, probably William Gee. 
 
24
Once Thought to be William Gee, Sheriff & Twice Mayor of Hull
Once Thought to be William Gee, Sheriff & Twice Mayor of Hull
Status: Located. Originally believed to be of William Gee. After a recent cleaning this painting has been identified by the coat of arms (at upper right) as that of Alderman John Smith. Painting hangs in what was originally the Hull Grammar School, of which William Gee was a benefactor.  
 
25
Orpington Priory
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. 
 
26
Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790.
Osgood Gee, portrait by Benjamin West ca. 1790.
Status: Located. Waist length portrait in oil. Currently at the Denver Art Museum. 
 
27
Peele Hall, Little Mouldsworth (today's Horton-cum-Peele)
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. 
 
28
Principio Furnace (1715)
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.  
 
29
Rev. Joshua Gee, portrait by John Smibert, 1733
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.  
 
30
Richard Gee, surveyor.  Portrait by John Cawse, 1804.
Richard Gee, surveyor. Portrait by John Cawse, 1804.
Status: Located. Richard Gee (ca 1756-1811) of Northamptonshire was a surveyor and enclosure commissioner. 
 
31
Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century
Rothley in the late Eighteenth Century
Status: Located. Map showing field names. 
 
32
St. George's Beckenham
St. George's Beckenham
In the nave, a monument to Osgood Gee Esq. (1766). 
 
33
St. Giles, Great Maplestead, memorial to Osgood Gee, Esq.
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. 
 
34
Thomas Mapplebeck's house at 39 Lowgate, Hull (early 1800's)
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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