I am still researching the family which played a huge part in Hethersett's story. One of the family I have found a considerable amount out about is Temperance Flowerdew.
Trevor Radley contacted me to say that he believed her character had featured in the BBC Drama "Jamestown."
A tiny bit of digging found this to be true and below are the details from the BBC web site. If you want to read more about Temperance from my own Hethersett website go to
https://hethersettherald.weebly.com/flowerdew.html
"Temperance Flowerdew is one of the real-life housewives depicted in the period drama Jamestown. She is believed to have been in her 20s when she landed in Jamestown in August 1609. She had left England a married woman aboard one of nine ships that made up the third supply mission to Jamestown. Only seven of the nine vessels made it to the colony, which desperately needed supplies. A hurricane first drove the fleet’s flagship, Sea Venture, ashore on an east Bermuda beach. Another ship was lost at sea.
"Her journey was very difficult but worse conditions lay ahead of her. Relations with the Powhatan, with whom the colony traded with for food at the time, were severed when an injured John Smith returned to England for treatment. Stranded and without food, 90 percent of the colony Temperance had just joined would die during what is now referred to as the Starving Time.
"Secrets of the Dead: Jamestown’s Dark Winter revealed that colonists were so desperate to survive that they resorted to cannibalism.
In May of 1610, Temperance was one of 60 surviving colonists who greeted the arrival Sea Venture, which had been presumed lost at sea. Among the crew who eventually made their way to Jamestown were John Rolfe and George Yeardley, who was captain of the bodyguard group for the new governor Sir Thomas Gates, who also arrived on the Sea Venture. (Rolfe’s wife and infant daughter had died while the Sea Venture was in Bermuda; he would eventually marry Pocahontas).
By 1618, Temperance was a widow and she married George Yeardley, who was appointed Governor of Virginia that year. They had three children.
For many years, Temperance assisted her husband with business and financial affairs on their plantation, the Flowerdew Hundred. As depicted in the show, the Yeardleys owned some of the first African slaves to be brought to the New World. After George Yeardley died 1627, Temperance married his successor, Governor Francis West. Temperance died the following year, in December 1628."