Margaret Stafford

Not the same as Elizabeth Margaret Dunham

Disputed Marriage

Evidence needed to support the claim that “Margaret Stafford , another daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neville, Duchess of Buckingham, married sir Robert Dunham.”

“Robert Dunham (in the Visitation chart) married Margaret Stafford, daughter of Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham. You won't find that anywhere else, except all over the internet.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Stafford,_1st_Duke_of_Buckin...

Sources conflict over the precise details of the Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham & Anne Neville, Duchess of Buckingham progeny.[note 13] The antiquarian I. W. Dunham, writing in 1907, listed them as Humphrey, Henry, John, Anne (married Aubrey de Vere), Joana (married Viscount Beaumont before 1461), Elizabeth, Margaret (born about 1435, married Robert Dinham),[note 14] and Katherine (married John Talbot, the future 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, before 1467). [note 15] James Tait lists the daughters as Anne, Joanna, Elizabeth, Margaret and Catherine and suggests that Elizabeth and Margaret never married.[note 16] Rawcliffe gives the following as dates of birth and death for three of the daughters: Anne, 1446–1472; Joan, 1442–1484; and Katherine, 1437–1476.[1] Edward and the twins, George and William, died young. The seventh son has gone unremarked in the sources.[171]

Margaret (born about 1435, married Robert Dinham),[note 14] The Dinhams were one of the wealthiest gentry families in Devon of the period.[167]

167. Cherry 1981, pp. 7, 106. Cherry, M. (1981). The Crown and the Political Community in Devon, 1377-1461 (PhD thesis). University of Wales (Swansea).

Source: Adrienne Anderson chart of Scandinavian Norman Descent of Hamblins

Disputed descendants

http://rogergilbert1.tripod.com/id48.html

With regard to erroneous data on John Dunham, the "Dunham Genealogy, Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669 and His Descendants", compiled by Isaac Watson Dunham (Hartford, Conn. 1907), is the old "standard" Dunham Genealogy. That book has also spurned a number of "family group sheets" and "histories" which have been interchanged. It sets forth that Deacon John Dunham was descended from a long line of Dunhams or Donhams reaching back to a Rychert Donham, b. 1294, who established himself in Devon. A descendant of this Rychert was said to be a Robert Dunham, b. 1430, who married a Margaret Stafford, b. 1435, a daughter of Humphrey Stafford, the first Duke of Buckingham, and his wife, Anne Neville, herself a great granddaughter of King Edward III. As forcefully stated in Paul Reed's article in TAG 73:101, that account is fraudulent. Prior to the Reed and Ward articles, and the comments by Anderson, there was an article by A. D. Gates "Some Saint John Loyalist Dunhams" [New Brunswick <Canada> Genealogical Society publication, "Generations", Issue 37, Sept. 1988, pages 14-18], which commented, as to the old published ancestry, "this offers interesting possibilities, for the forbears of King Edward III can easily be traced back to the Saxon kings and also to French royalty, and even to Viking invaders who established themselves in such places as Normandy and Kiev."

But, Gates continues "Unfortunately, it is probably not true. Among other things it would require proof that Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth was indeed descended from Robert Dunham and Margaret Stafford through a Sir John Dunham in the 16th century. The 'Dunham Genealogy' says that Sir John had a son, Ralph Dunham, b. 1526, but printed records from England indicate that the John Dunham in question 'died young' and give no evidence of marriage or issue."

References

• The visitations of the county of Nottingham in the years 1569and 1614 : with many other descents of the same county by (Flower, William), d. 1588; Saint-George, Richard, Sir, d. 1635; Mundy, Richard; Withie, John; Marshall, George William, 1839-1905; College of Arms (Great Britain). “Donham.” Page 160. Archive.Org
• https://thehistoryjar.com/tag/margaret-stafford/
• http://chazzcreations.com/robert_brewer__dunham_family_history_cone...
• The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 : made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy king of arms by Flower, William, ca. 1498-1588; Norcliffe, Charles Best; College of Arms (Great Britain). “Dunham.” Page 100. Archive.Org lists the wife of Robert Dunham as Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmond Sanford, of Derbyshire.