Sir Gregory Isham

• Gregory Isham, Lord of Braunston Manor1
• M, b. 1520, d. 4 September 1558
• Father Euseby Isham, Lord of Pitchley Manor b. c 1491
• Mother Anne Pulton b. c 1495
• Gregory Isham, Lord of Braunston Manor was born in 1520 at Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England. He married Elizabeth Dale, daughter of Matthew Dale, circa 1550. Gregory Isham, Lord of Braunston Manor died on 4 September 1558; Age 38.2
• Family Elizabeth Dale b. c 1530
• Children
  • Sir Euseby Isham, Sheriff of Northamptonshire+ b. 26 Feb 1553, d. 11 Jun 1626
  • Thomas Isham b. c 1554
  • Mary Isham b. c 1556, d. 4 Apr 1589
  • Elizabeth Isham b. c 1558
• Citations
• 1.[S6049] Unknown author, Magna Charta by Wurts, p. 759; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1382; Family Group Sheets in SLC Archives.
• 2.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i...
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• A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the ... By John Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=mDA_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA548&lpg=PA548&dq...
• Pg.548
• Euseby Isham, the eldest son of Thomas, m. Anne, eldest dau. of Gyles Pulton, Esq. of Desborough, and Catharine, his wife, dau. of Thomas Lovet, Esq., sen., of Astwell. By her, in twenty-one years, he had twenty children; the names of ten of whom, five sons, and as many daus., the rest dying young and unm., are transmitted down to us, viz., Gyles, Robert, Gregory, John, ancestor of the Lamport line, and Henry; Catharine, m. to Richard Pagitt, of Cranford, student of the law, (from whom descended, by the eldest son, James Pagitt, on of the barons of the Exchequer in the reign of Charles I.; and by Euseby, a clergyman, Ephraim Pagitt, above forty years rector of St. Edmund, Lombard Street;) Elena, m. 1st, to Thomas Hoyse, and 2ndly, to Thomas Bolesworth, of Great Oakley; Ely, m. to Henry Bellamy, citizen and mercer of Loudon, afterwards of Hadley, near Barnet, Meddlesex; Edith, m. to Richard Slatier, of Braunston; and Isabella, m. to Thomas Barker, Merchant, whose sister was m. to his wife's brother, John Isham.
• GREGORY ISHAM, who d. 4 Sept. 1558, last of Philip and Mary. He m. ELIZABETH, dau. of Matthew DALE, of Bristol, who after his decease, had to her second husband William Roswell, Esq., solicitor-general to Queen Elizabeth. By her he was father of Sir Euseby, Thomas, Mary, the second wife (and by whom he only left issue) of Thomas Andrews, Esq. of Charwelton, who seems to be the sheriff of Northamptonshire, according to Camden, that attended on Mary, Queen of Scots, to her execution, at Fotheringhay Castle; and Elizabeth, m. to Henry Cave, Esq. of Ingarsby, in the co. of Leicester. The son and heir,
• Sir Euseby Isham, Knt. of Picheley and Braunston, received the honour of knighthood from King James I. at the Charter House. He d. 11 June, 1626, and, as tradition delivers it, in no very good circumstances, though, in all appearance, his children were well provided for, of whom he had a good number by his lady, Anne, dau. of John Borlase, Esq. of Marlow, in Buckinghamshire. The sons were,
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• A genealogy of the wives of the American presidents and their first two ... By Craig Hart
• http://books.google.com/books?id=TOae78XVP0kC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq...
• Pg.136-139
• Martha Wayles, b. October 19, 1748, Chesterfield Co., Va.; d. September 6, 1782, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va., m.(1) Bathurst Skelton, m(2) January 1, 1772, Thomas Jefferson, b. April 13, 1743, Virginia; d. Monticello
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• Eusby Isham, b. February 26, 1582, England; d. June 11, 1626, England m. Anne Borlase, b. 1556, England; d. January 6, 1628, England
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• GREGORY ISHAM, b. 1520, Braunston, England; d.September 4, 1558, England, m. ELIZABETH DALE, b. England; d. England
• Sir John Borlase, b. England; d. England, m. Anne Lytton, b. England d. England
• G-8
• Eusby Isham, b. 1491, England; d. December 11, 1546, England, m. Ann Pulton, b. England d. England
• Matthew Dale, b. England; d. England
• Edmund Borlase, b. England; d. England, m. Susannah Isham, b. England; d. England (THESE ARE NOT THE RIGHT PARENTS FOR JOHN BORLASE WHO MARRIED ANNE LYTTON?)
• Sir Robert Lytton, b. England; d. England, m. Frances Cavalery, b. England; d. England
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GEDCOM Note

Biography

Moved to London as a young man and amassed a considerable fortune and amount of property through being a merchant, including "Branston, Farthington, Krick, Creaton and Old, all of which he deceasing left unto his oldest son and two daughters," p. 21 <A Survey of The Ishams in England and America. Compiled by Homer Worthington Brainard. The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. Rutland, Vermont. 1938.> .Some of the property was bought from Henry, Earl of Rutland.

• Fact: Burial (6 September 1558) Braunston, Northamptonshire, England
• Fact: Occupation Sheriff of Northamptonshire
• Fact: Christening (26 July 1593) Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 July 2018, 16:05), entry for Gregory Isham(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L6G8-WYC); contributed by various users.* "Family Tree," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (http://familysearch.org : modified 24 July 2018, 17:25), entry for Gregory Isham(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L5LN-744); contributed by various users.* "Family Tree," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (http://familysearch.org : modified 12 October 2018, 03:31), entry for Sir Gregory Isham Knight(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LY3D-KWS); contributed by various users.* Waters, R.E.C., Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley:Their Ancestors and Descendants, v. 1 Robson & Sons 1878, pp.51
• Gregory Isham in the Peerage
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/n/i/Fred-Knight/GENE8-0021.html
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119000407/gregory-isham