Dorothy Cham

Not the wife of Thomas Foulke

Mother of Thomas Foulke, of Burlington

Notes

PLEASE NOTE: The above information relates to the wrong Thomas Foulke. This Thomas Foulke was the son of Edward ap Foulke of Wales, who Anglicized his name to Edward Foulke when he came to Pennsylvania. This confusion of English and Welsh Foulke family's has been going on for many years. According to English marriage records, Thomas Fouke, of Codnor, Derbyshire, married Dorothy Cham at St.Laurance, Heanor, Derbyshire, on Oct. 30, 1616. St. Laurance (Lawrence) was an Anglican church, and, according to its records, a Thomas Fowke was a substitute church warden there, representing Codnor, in 1613. Dorothy's maiden name has been misspelled as "Chain" and tacked onto the Welsh Foulke family for many years also. For the English Foulke line from Derbyshire with sources, please visit the "Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy" website.

North Wingfield parish register has a Widow Fowke of Holmgate buried on August 23, 1668, in North Wingfield parish. The only Widow Fowke in Holmgate at this time must be Dorothy Fowke, which of course implies that her husband Thomas was deceased by 1668. Thomas and Dorothy Fouke were named as of Holmgate in the 1654 wedding publication of their son Thomas to Mary Richardson, also recorded in the North Wingfield parish register.