John Isham

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Biography

Jobn Isham, the eldest son, married twice, first to
Anne, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliain of Milton, county Northampton. According to the Pytchley Regis! er this first wife died when her only child was born. This was Anne Isham, born in London 13 June 1001, and bap- tized at St. Botolpb's Without Aldersgate 18 June 1001; she married twice, first to William Lane of Horton and (Jlendon, who died 21 November 1037, and secondly to Pierce Walsh. John Isham married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Duncb of Little Wittenham, county Berks, but bad no issue by ber. He lived at Braunston, died there 9 December, and was buried there 13 December 1020. His will (P.C.C. 52 Skyimcr), dated 29 September 1024, makes his father Sir Euseby and his brother Thomas Isham his executors; he leaves a sum of money to his daughter Anne Lane " for a remembrance of my love to her, although she bath delt unnaturallie and undutifully with me who have been allwaies tender and carel'ull over ber as the world can witnes and have impaired my estate to advance lier fortunes." A codicil, dated 8 December 1020, in consequence of the death of his father, makes Thomas Isham his sole executor, and contains his wish that his executor shall " provide one treble Dell tuneable to the fower Bells which are in tlie parish Church of Braunston." Elizabeth Isham, his widow, of whom curiously he makes no mention whatever in his will, perhaps because she was well provided for, returns to her own neighbourhood, and during the thirty years of her widowhood linds a home at Sandford in Oxfordshire. Her will (P.C.C, 1190 ttuthen) is dated 7 April 1Ü5G, and was proved in London HO Oc- tober 1057. What property she has she leaves to her own friends. This only concerns Northamptonshire : " Item I give and bequeath unto the Church of Braunston in the County of Northampton where my Joineture lyeth a Comunion Cupp of ffower pounds price. And to the poore of that toune .£10." Finally she desires to be buried in the Church of Little Wittenham "as neere to my Mother as may be, and that it be done in the day and not in the night; 20s to a preacher at my funerall on this text: ' AÍ the dayes of my appointed tyme will I wait till my change cometb ;' £10 to the poor that come thereto." The Communion Cup still exists. It bears the inscrip- tion : " To the faithfull of Braunston iu North'ton the guift of Elizabeth Isham, widdow about 40 yearea who died 0"' August 1057. Have faith and repentance to god each to other charity." It has also arms and crest. Arms : A chevron between three castles. Crest: Out of a three-leaved coronet a goat's head. The cup and cover paten bear tbe Hall-mark of 1057.

Sources

<references />* OF WHOM I CAME; FROM WHENCE I CAME WELLS-WISE, RISH-WISE AND OTHERWISE BY ZELMA WELLS PRICE PUBLISHED 1959. NOTES TAKEN FROM VOL. 6 Pt. 3 P.290*"Some notes on Sir Euseby Isham, of Pytchley in the county of Northampton : with special reference to his Virginian descendants" Author:Longden, Henry Isham, 1859-1942 Pages: 32 Language:English;eng;en Location:Allen County Public Library;http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Subject: Isham family; Eppes family; Randolph family;This can be read here:https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/20751?page=9&given=Euseb...

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