Isham of PytchleyA documentary genealogy

Generation XII

Thomas Isham

1617–1676

Life

Thomas Isham, son of Zaccheus Isham of Onley in the parish of Barby, Northamptonshire, and Jane his wife, was christened at Hillmorton, Warwickshire, on 4 May 1617.1,2

By his father's will, dated 17 June 1650, Zaccheus Isham left a small close in Willey, Warwickshire, to his son Thomas Isham and the heirs male of his body, to take effect after the death of Zaccheus's widow Jane.3

Thomas Isham was rector of Barby.4 As recorded in extracts from the parish register copied by Sir Justinian Isham, Mr Thomas Isham, rector of that parish, aged 59, was buried at Barby on 23 November 1676.4

  1. Thoms Isham, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1972"
  2. Thoms Isham, "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  3. Will of Zacheus Isham, gent., of Onley in Barby, Northamptonshire, dated 17 June 1650, proved 14 [?] August 1651 (TNA PROB 11/218/97)
  4. Parish Register Extracts from the Notebook of an 18th Century Antiquary, Sir Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet (Barby, Maidwell, Pytchley, Rothwell; Stoneleigh)

Life sketch as written on the FamilySearch Family Tree. Footnotes link each statement to the attached source that supports it; they were matched by machine against the source summaries and should be read as a guide, not a verification.

Records

  1. 1617
    Index
  2. 1617
    Index
  3. 1650
    RecordPROB 11/218

    TRANSCRIPTION (spelling partly modernised; [?] = uncertain reading; [...] = unread).

  4. 1730
    Secondary

    Isham entries (Barby register, now lost; extracts as copied by Sir Justinian c.1730):