Henry Isham

Henry Isham, fifth son of Euseby Isham (1486 - 1546) and his wife Anne Pulton, was born about 1527-30; died after May 12, 1595.

Henry Isham and his brother, John Isham, were London mercers. Both were wardens of the Mercers’ Company, Henry Isham in 1575, and John Isham in 1576. See the will, dated 22 September 1594 or 1595, of John Isham, TNA PROB 11/87/356, and Sutton, Anne F., The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578, (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005), p. 560.

Henry Isham married Anne Fogge as her third husband[1] Lord of the manor of Walmer in right of his wife, Anne Fogge.[2]

In summary, it seems Anne Fogge married firstly William Scott (d.1536), secondly Sir (George?) Pollard (d.1545), and thirdly Henry Isham, and that after the death of Sir (George?) Pollard and during her marriage to Henry Isham, she continued to be styled ‘Dame Pollard’, as was customary at the time

Among the State Papers of Queen Mary is a document dated April 29th, 1576, from the Lords of the Council to Sir Thomas Scott, Mr. Thomas Wotton and others, “authorizing them to hear and determine all matters in controversy between Captain William Hawkes of Walmer Castle and Mr. Henry Isham. The latter by virtue of his marriage with Anne, widow of William Scott and eldest daughter and coheir of Thomas Fogge, Serjeant Porter of Calais to Henry VII. and Henry VIII., was lord of the manor of Walmer.

By Henry Isham, Anne Fogge is said to have had a son, Edmund (or Edward) Isham.

See Ireland, W.H., England’s Topographer, (London: George Virtue, 1828), pp. 690-1 at: < GoogleBooks > [Thomas Fogge] serjeant porter of Calais under Henry VII. and Henry VIII. Anne, daughter and coheir of the latter, entitled Henry Isham, esq. her second husband, to this property; whose son, Edmund, having an only daughter, Mary, she conveyed it by marriage to George Perkins.

Henry Isham married Joan Brinsley. They had seven children:

1. Gregory, of Barby, m Elizabeth Cateyne.
2. Nathaniel of St. Dunstans in the East, m Katherine (unknown); d in 1609, had a son Henry, a minor in 1609.
3. Zaccheus, m Jane Sturtivant
4. Matthew, m Meriel Tisdale; second Margaret (unknown)
5. Susan, b __; m first Edmund Borlase; m second Francis Sturtivant
6. Apollonia, m Rowland Leigh of London; had daughter Mary Leigh, wife of Peter Mytton
7. Miles, m Giles Parslowe of London, citizen and grocer.

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Origins

It seems possible, however, that The English Baronetage and Burke are in error, and that the Henry Isham who was the son of Thomas Isham and Elena Vere was of an earlier generation, and that the Henry Isham who married Anne Fogge was a younger son of Euseby Isham (c.1486-1546). See the will of Gregory Isham (d.1558), TNA PROB 11/41/322, in which he leaves a bequest to the wife of his brother, Henry Isham, and the will of Robert Isham (d.1564), TNA PROB 11/50/333, in which he names his brother, Henry Isham, as one of his executors.

References

• Ishams in England and America, page 19, person # 6 < MyHeritageImage>; page 31-32, person # 6< MyHeritageImage > “ … Apollonia Isham m Rowland Leigh of London both dead in 1612; had daughter Mary Leigh, wife of Peter Mytton.”
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Aug 4 2015, 16:41:36 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Isham-64 cites
• http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-43_ff_457-8.pdf see page 8
• Elvin, Charles R.S., Records of Walmer, (London: Henry Gray, 1890), pp. 21-2, 63-5, 68-9, 227-8, 401-2 at p. 69: https://archive.org/stream/recordsofwalmert00elvi#page/68/mode/2up
• ”An Index of the Ishams in England and America" including Isom and Ison. Nine Hundred Years of History and Genealogy. Compiled by Edward Paul Isham. Copyright November 1984, 732 pages. Page 17.
• http://www.mikesclark.com/genealogy/descent%20from%20Hugh%20Capet.html