Nicholas de Puttenham, of Penn

Eben Putnam ( author of A History of the Putnam family etc citation below) recorded Nicholas Putnam of Penn as a son of William de Puttenham and Anne de Hampden.

Subsequent research and revision of Eben Putnam's work suggests this is incorrect, and that Nicholas of Penn belongs a generation earlier as the son of Henry Puttenham and Elizabeth widow of Geoffrey Goodluck.

Nicholas Puttenham, or Puttnam, of Penn, Co. Bucks. Born about 1445 (vide Heralds' Vistn.). He was associated with Henry Puttenham and about 60 others in an assault on the Abbey of Gt. Missenden about 1466 (vide Chancery Proceedings) and was living about 1479-80 and later. In the Heralds' Vistn. of 1566, this Penn branch of the family used the same Arms as those of Puttenham and Sherfield and the name returned as Puttnam. He was apparently living at Penn in 1495-6 being summoned as a Juror in a case at High Wycombe (vide Ancient Endictments). His name is on the Plea Rolls 1513, in a case re "Dagnall" Co. Bucks and of the parish of Eddlesborough, Bucks in 1517 on Coram Rege Roll and he is a Witness in several Deeds at Eton College; 1484; 1498-9; 1503-4. He was living at the parish of Eddlesborough 19th of Henry VII. (1503-4) when he was a juryman there in an Inqn. on John Rufford's estate of whom later.

Citations:

• A history of the Putnam family in England and America: recording the ... By Eben Putnam Pg.128

http://books.google.com/books?id=kdlIAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PR13&lpg=RA1-P...

• New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ..., Volume 2 edited by William Richard Cutter Pg.1075

http://books.google.com/books?id=1M8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1075&lpg=PA1075&...

Additional links:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kugerrand/mvincent.htm

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(XIV) Nicholas, third son of William and Ann Puttenham, and Penne, in 1534, bore the same arms as his elder brother, Sir George. He had sons: John and Henry.

http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_putnam.htm