Sir Herbert Pelham of Droitwich

Sir Herbert Pelham, Knight was born at of Droitwich, Worcester, England 1544. He married Mrs-Herbert Pelham Abt 1559 at of Droitwich, Worcester, England . Mrs-Herbert Pelham was born at Droitwich, Worcester, England Abt 1538 .

They were the parents of 1 child:

1. Eleanor Pelham born 7 Oct 1560. Married Edward Winslow.

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From Paine ancestry. The family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration ... By Sarah Cushing Paine, Charles Henry Pope Pg.58

Edward Winslowe, asserted by the author of the Winslow Memorial to have been "the only son of Kenelm of whom we have any knowledge," and to have been born at St. Andrew's parish, Worcester, 17 Oct., 1560, is supposed to have married for his first wife, Eleanor Pelham, daughter of Sir Herbert Pelham of Droitwich, by whom he had a son Richard, born about 1585, and who died 20 May, 1659.

quoted in http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=barbpretz...

Meredith B. Colket Jr. has pointed out (supra 42:56) that the birth date of Edward Winslow Sr. has long been recognized as 17 Oct. 1560. As far as can be learned, this date first sprang out "from under a rock" so to speak, in D.P. Holton?s Winslow Memorial 91877). In its account of Governor Winslow the Dictionary of National Biography, accordingly, accepts this as gospel, and the date is again accepted in 1925 in Americana Illustraed 19:534, which solemnly assures us that governor Winslow?s father was Edward, born in 1560 ?in the parish of St. Andrew, Worcester, who first married Lady Eleanor, a dau. of sir Jerbert [sic] Pelham of Droitwich (evidently referring to Sir Herbert Pelham, a personage who cannot, so far as can be discovered, have lived at Droitwich. .

Indeed, we cn find no record attesting the existence in worcestershire of any Pelham family at that or any related era.

Other compilers, including the one cited by Mr. Colket, have swallowed this date and the Pelham marriage without apparently troubling themselves to ask what is the basis for this "family record" . . .If, as, and when the original of this so-called record can be produced for examination, or of it can be substantiated by any parish entry or bishop?s transcript entry, we may change our susicion about the date 1560 in connection with Edward Winslow Sr., but until such time, we view this as an invented record of no value whatever."

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Sir Herbert Pelham
BIRTH 27 Dec 1545
East Sussex, England
DEATH 12 Apr 1620 (aged 74)
Dorset, England
BURIAL
St George's Churchyard
Fordington, West Dorset District, Dorset, England
MEMORIAL ID 149149186

Family Members
Parents
Anthony Pelham
1492–1566
Margaret Hall Pelham
1515–1560

Spouses
Catherine Thatcher Pelham
1550–1593
Lady Elizabeth West Pelham
1573–1633

Children
Herbert Pelham II
1575–1624
Anne Pelham Clark
1602–1630
Elizabeth Pelham Humfrey
1604–1628

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