JOHN MARKHAM, the eldest, was seated at Sireston in the county of Nottingham, and died in his father's life time, leaving issue by Katharine his wife, daughter of Sir Anthony Babington, one son, Robert, who succeeded him, and two daughters: Sanchia, who married William de Hardwicke, and Anne, who died unmarried.* *"I, Dame Anthony Babington, wife of Sir Anthony Babington, Knight, bequethe to my daughter Markham a rynge, and to her daughter Anne Markham a tablet of gold. 24 Sept. 1587." - Dodsworth MSS. Sir John's second wife was Margery, daughter of Sir Ralf Langford of Langford, who bore him many children. His last wife was Anne, relict of Sir Richard Stanhope, daughter and coheir of Sir John Strelly, who was descended from Walter de Stradlegh in the time of Henry I. By her he had William Markham of Okely, who served as Member for the Borough of Nottingham in parliament held at Westminster, in the lst and 2nd of Philip and Mary. Thomas was the second son of Sir John by his third wife, and founder of the Ollerton branch of Markhams, of whom hereafter. Frances, the eldest daughter, married Henry Babington, and was mother of the unfortunate Anthony Babington, who was attainted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, for conspiring to set at liberty Mary Queen of Scots, condemned and executed. Isabella Markham, the youngest, was maid of honour to Elizabeth, and one of the devoted ladies who, at the instigation of Bishop Gardiner, in Mary's reign, were seized and confined in the Tower. She seems to have been in high favour with her royal mistress, and was possessed of personal charms, which are thus celebrated in a sonnet from the pen of Sir John Harrington, when "he firste thoghte her fayre as she stode at the Princesse's windowe in goodlye attyre, and talkede to dyvers in the courte yarde." I Whence comes my love, O hearte! disclose. T'was from cheeks that shamed the rose, From lips that spoyle the rubie's prayse, From eyes that mocke the diamond's blayze. Whence comes my woe, as freely owne, Ah me! Twas from a hearte lyke stone. II The blushynge cheek speakes modeste mynde, The lips beffittinge wordes most kynde, The eye does tempte to love's desyre, And seems to saye, tis Cupid's fire, Yet all soe fayer, but speake my moane, Syth noghte dothe saye the hearte of stone. III Why thus, my love, so kynde bespeake, Sweete lyppe, sweete eye, sweet blushynge cheek, Yet not a hearte to save my paine, O Venus! Take thy gifts againe; Make not so faire to cause our moane, Or make a hearte that's lyke our owne. We find the same devoted admiration also in the following lines, to which there is no date, but they are thus entitled. JOHN HARRINGTON TO SWEETE ISABELLA MARKHAM. Marvellouse by thy matchles gyftes of mynde, And for thy shape, Erithnia rightlie growen; Recklese of prayse, a prayse rare in thy kinde. Great in desert, small in desyre, well knowen; A mansion meete, where chastitie doth dwell. Rype in all goode, of evill the sede unsowen, Endewed with thewse that do the rest excell, Temp'raunce hathe wonne and constancye doth holde; Wisdom hath taughte that myldness mastereth might.* * Nugæ Antiquæ, vol. Iv. p.256. sonnet xvi. So again in a sonnet which he heads "The Prayse of Six Gentlewomen attending on the Ladie Elizabeth her Grace, Hatfield House," he speaks of Isabella in these inflated terms. "To Markham's modest mynde, That Phœnix bird most rare, So have the gods assygnde, With Gryfylde to compare. Oh happie twice is hee, Whom Jove shall do the grace, To lynke in unitie, Such beautie to embrace!" Hitherto Sir John had only at a distance wooed the fair Isabel, by praising her beauty and modesty indirectly: he now takes a bolder step, and addresses her personally in good set terms. TO ISABELLA MARKHAM Lyke as the rage of rayne Fylls ryvers with excesse. And as the drowghte a gayne Doth make them lesse and lesse So I both fall and clyme, With no and yea somtyme. As they ryse hye and hye So doth encreace my state; As they fall drye and drye, So doth my wealthe abate As yea is match'd with no, My wealth is myxt with wo. As nothing can endure, That lyves and lacks relief; So no state may stand sure, Where change dothe rayne as chief Wherefore I must extend, To bow when others bend. And when they laugh, to smyle; And when they weepe, to wayle; And when they crafte, begyle, And when they fight, assayle: And thynck there is no chaunge, Can make them seeme so straunge. Oh! Most unhappie state, What wight may keepe such coorsse, To love that he shuld hate, Or ellse to do moche worsse; Theise be rewardes for suche, As lyve and love to moche.* * Nugæ Antiquæ, vol. iii, p.290,1, A.D. 1549. The consequence of these love passages, was a union between Sir John Harrington and "sweete Isabella Markham," which took place under the auspices of the Princess Elizabeth, not long before her committal to the Tower, in the year 1554. The misfortunes of Elizabeth fell with equal weight on those who were about her person, and Lady Harrington with her husband had their full share of them; for she was sequestered from the service of the princess, on account of her so called heretical opinions, and committed to a prison lodging in the Tower with her husband, whose offence was having carried a letter to Elizabeth. This indiscretion, if such it can be called, occurred some time before, as appears by a letter he sent to Gardiner, in which he complains of his own, as well as his wife's imprisonment, in these undaunted terms - "My Lord, "This mine humble prayer doth come with much sorrowe, for anie deede of evil that I have done to your lordshippe: but alas! I know of none, save such dutie to the Ladie Elizabeth as I am bounden to pay her at all times. And if this matter breedeth in you wrath toward her and me, I shall not in this my imprisonment repent thereof. My wife is her servant, and doth but rejoice in this our misery when we looke with whom we are holden in bondage. Our gracious King Henry did ever advance our families good estate, as did his pious father aforetime; wherefore our service is in remembrance of such good kindness, albeit there needeth none other cause to render our tendance, sith the Lady Elizabeth beareth such piety and godly affection to all virtue." The letter continues in the same strain, and thus ends. "If you should give ear to my complaint, it will bind me to thankfully repay this kindness, but if not, we will continue to suffer, and rest ourselves in God, whose mercy is sure and safe; and in all true love to her, the Princess Elizabeth, who doth honour us in tender sort, and scorneth not to shed her blood with ours. I commend your Lordshipp to God's appointment, and rest sorely afflicted, "JOHN HARRINGTON. "From the Tower, 1554." In the history of the Bishop of Winchester, written in the Nugæ Antiquæ by the son of Isabella Harrington, he bitterly complains of that prelate's cruelty, and thus concludes a philippic against him. "Lastly the plots he laid to entrap the Ladie Elizabeth, his terrible hard usage of all her followers, I cannot yet scarce think of with charity, nor write of with patience. My father, only for carrying a letter to the Ladie Elizabeth, and professing to wish her well, he kept in the Tower twelve moneths, and made him spend a thousand pounds ere he could be free of that trouble. My mother, that then served the said Ladie Elizabeth, he caused to be sequestered from her as an heretick, and she was glad to sojourn with one Mr. Topcliff; so I may say, in some sort, this bishop persecuted me before I was born." Elizabeth, when she came to the throne, did not forget the faithful and devoted conduct of her attached servants, or the sufferings they underwent for her sake. She distinguished them by many expressive tokens of her regard; amongst others by standing godmother to their son, and was little less intimate with them than with the best beloved of her own relations. The print of the Princess Elizabeth which fronts the second volume of the Nugæ Antiquæ, is taken from an original plate given by herself to her attendant Isabella Harrington, soon after her enlargement from the Tower. The poetical effusions of Sir John Harrington did not cease with the change of Isabella from the maiden to the marriage state. She still seems to have inspired his muse; and as a specimen of what was considered valuable in a wife of those times, and would be no bad hint to the ladies of the present day, I transcribe the following. JOHN HARRINGTON TO HIS WIFE, 1564. Yf dutye, wyfe, lead thee to deeme That trade most fytt I hold most deere, Fyrst God regard, next me esteeme, Our children then respect thou neare. Our house both sweet and cleanlie see, Order our fayre, thy maydes kepe short, Thy mirth with mean well myxed be, Thy courtesse partes in chaste wyse sorte, In sober weede thee cleanly dress; When joyes me rayse, thy cares downe cast, When grieves me grieve, thy solace cease; Who so me frynds, frynd them as fast. In peace gyve place, whatso I saye; A parte complayne, if cause thou fynde, Let lybrall lypps no trust bewray, Nor jelous humour payne thye mynd. If I thee wronge, thie greifes unfolde, If thou me vex, thine errour grant; To seek strange toyles be not too bold, The stryflesse bed no jarres may haunt. Small sleape and early prayer extend; The idle lyfe, as poison, hate; No credyte lyght nor moche speache spend; In open place no cawse debate. No thawarts, no frownes, no grudge, no stryfe; Eschew the badd, embrace the best; To throthe of worde joyne honest lyfe, And in my bosom buyld thye nest. How long the loving pair lived together, I have not ascertained; they resided however for the most part at Kelston, near Bath, and brought up a considerable family, of which John the eldest was as great a favourite with his godmother Queen Elizabeth, as his father had been. ...

SIR JOHN MARKHAM is mentioned by Polydor Virgil as one of the leaders who were present at the battle of Stoke in 1488, on the side of Henry VII. He is described as a man of great prowess, and was much employed in public affairs. "But," says Dugdale, "he was an unrulie spirited man, and, striving with the people of Long Benington in Lincolnshire about the bounderies of their lordships, he killed some or other of them (some have it he hanged the priest), for which retiring, he lay hid at a place called Cressi Hall, which he had through his great-grandmother the daughter of Sir John Cressi of Hodsac. Here it was his good fortune to entertain the lady Margaret, mother of King Henry VII., who not only procured his pardon, but married her kinswoman Anne, the daughter and heir of Sir George Neville, to his son, likewise called Sir John," by Alicia his wife, daughter of Sir William Skipwith. At this period the Markham family were at the height of their fortunes, enjoying vast estates in different parts, and the favour of their sovereign; for, though they opposed the line of Lancaster till the union of the Roses, yet the service performed by Sir John at the battle of Stoke (an event which added so much security to Henry`s throne,) obliterated what might have been considered former delinquencies, and established the family again in favour at court.* * A question has long existed in the family, as to what the exact device of our crest is, whether the head of the lion should be surrounded with rays, and what instrument it holds in its paw. This may be set at rest by an entry in one of the Harleian MSS. "Standard of Sir John Markham in temp. Henry VIII. Per fesse, gold and blue. The device (or crest) a lion rampant gules, with wings endorsed or, holding a pair of horse heames of the first. The Lion of St. Mark, and the hames forming a very indifferent pun on the name. (Harl. MSS. Fol.209.) In a beautifully illuminated pedigree attested by Camden's signature, the head of the lion has a sort of cap. So again in MS. of F. Markham, temp. James I. Besides the various properties before mentioned, Sir John Markham had lands in East Bridgenorth on the hill, "next beyond the parsonage in a place heretofore called Sir John Markham's manor;" and there was a great house of friars at Newark of the order of St. Augustine which was in his possession, and in which he occasionally lived. It has been already stated that Sir John Markham's spirit was not of the gentlest, a sad additional proof of which is furnished in a most singular letter of his to Sir Thomas Stanhope, on account of an affront that the latter had passed upon him in some doggrel rhymes. It should be premised that these two quarrelsome old knights were both on the verge of the grave, Sir John being nearly ninety years old, and, however feeble he may have become in his body, his mind seems to have retained the same unruly spirit which led him to hang the priest of Long Benington. The letter is entitled- "Sir John Markham's railing Letter sent to Sir Thomas Stanhope. "Hast thou, base and unworthie knyghte, bene soe longe practysed in Markham's damned devyces, and can thy grosse heade in the conclusion of thy corrupted carcase bringe forthe no better fruits than countlesse fooleries: yet since your cankered knyghtshippe hath in verse given the first occasion of this scolding combat, I in my prose will make replication, not to thyselfe, lest I shoulde so far move thy putriditie, as in thy fearful choler, offeringe to cast my letter from thee, thou with it shouldst cast thy arm from thy body, and soe by thy untymlie deathe cozen the devil of his due. But I to pleasure them, will scold to thee, thy brother, sonne, and sonne in lawe; and if they or any equally of them dares maynteyne thy execrable actions, I doe give them the lye in the throte. "To make answere to thy lyinge lybell, first for the foremost of them, beinge as I thinke some one of thy hundred instruments, I leave him to the revenge fit for a keep doore . . . . And, good well shapte kin, though I be crook backed, yet it is not any disease that makes me sit lyke a deformed ape under a tree, with my head and knees so neare confyned, as if I took some pleasure in my knees that I could not abstain from kissing them. But for my birthright the gallowes, as thy lyinge lybell saythe, if any of my ancestors had chanced to dye so unkyndlie, as one under a tree, I must needs have blushed to have any of my knaves offer the gallows to thee. For thy coarse cuttinge, or any lybell settinge forthe, knowe then, envyous excrement of nature, that to anye of thy followers, kynde, or friends who thynke I touch them for thys and the whole lybell, I give them the lye in the throte. For my name of knave, I thynke surelie thy knavish actions, thy lyinge, and therefore duringe thy life weare thou the title, and at thy deathe leave it thy heyre. But nowe Sir, to conclude, let me question you a lytelle. And you not a slanderous knave upon record? Did you not . . . . .? Are you not . . . . .? Are you not . . . . .? Knowe Sir, if in thys thou be faultie, I hope what slanders and lybelles be set forthe by thee, the world will esteeme to come from a lyer, a slanderer, and one worse than the devil. And now, leavynge unexamined myllions of knaveries, I wist "from thy godsonne who hates thy damned condytions, "John Markham."* * Lansdowne MSS. It is a melancholy aspect of the times, that men in the position of Sir John Markham could have indulged in such coarse vituperation, and a matter of regret that one so near his latter end should have swollen his natural indignation with so great a breach of christian charity. It is probably, however, that this letter met with its reward, for there is every reason to suppose that it found its way into Lansdowne collection of manuscripts, from having been made the subject of a prosecution in the Star Chamber, and thus became mixed with other documents of less unworthy character. Sir John was twice high sheriff for the counties of Nottingham and Derby, 10 Henry VIII. and 17 Henry VIII. He died at a very advanced age, being near one hundred years old, about the year 1536, and was succeeded by his only son. SIR JOHN MARKHAM married the daughter and heir of Sir George Neville, who on the female side was of royal descent. Her mother, the daughter of Sir Humphrey FitzLewes, was a grand-daughter and coheir of Edmund Beaufort, Marquess and Earl of Somerset (slain at the battle of St. Alban's), the grandson of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster (third son of King Edward III.) and Catherine Swynford, daughter of Sir Payn Roet, Guyenne King at Arms. Independent of the brilliancy of this alliance, considerable property also accrued to the family in consequence of it, for the lady herself was her father's heir, as was her mother of Sir Humphrey FitzLewes. Sir John Markham enjoyed considerable reputation as an able soldier, and among other places of military trust, was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower during the reign of Edward VI., while the Duke of Somerset was Lord Protector, a post then of great importance. When the duke's fortunes however began to wane, and his enemies combined to destroy him, Sir John Markham, his firm friend, also felt the effects of their hostility, for the Earl of Warwick and his confederates contrived for their own purposes to discharge him forcibly from his office, and confer it upon Sir Leonard Chamberlayne in his stead. In King Edward's journal of his own reign is this entry, "a letter directed to Sir Arthur Darcy to take the charge of the Tower, and to discharge Sir John Markham; upon this, that, without making any of the council privy, he suffered the duke to walk abroad, and certaine letters to be sent and answered between David Seymour and Mrs. Poynings, with divers other suspicions." Any suspicion attaching to Sir John's loyalty does not seem to have rested long upon the King's mind, for in a manuscript entitled "Injunctions given by the King's Majesty's Visitors to all and every the Clergy and Laity now resident within the Deanory of Doncastre," will be found the name of Sir John Markham, as the Chief of the King's Visitors for the Reformation in the North. A portion of these injunctions will be found in the Appendix.* * See Appendix (D). Besides the large possessions which devolved upon Sir John, on the demise of his father, who appears by his son's will to have died outlawed,† and those which came by his marriage with the heiress of Sir George Neville, who succeeded to the estates of Sir Humphrey Lewes, whose wife was daughter and coheiress of Edmund Beaufort Earl of Somerset; he had grants of several others, among which is one bearing date 28 Hen. VIII. "The house and site of the Abbey of Rufforth, with large manorial possessions attached, were, under the great seal of the Court of Augmentations, demised to Sir John Markham, Knight, and his assigns for twenty-one years, for the yearly rent of twenty-two pounds eight shillings, which, with a vast deal of other property, was by reason of a certain act for dissolving certain religious houses." † Whether the outlawry of Sir John arose from his attack upon the people of Long Benington, or was a sentence passed on him by the Star Chamber, owing to his "railinge letter" to his kinsman Sir Thomas Stanhope, cannot at this distance of time be determined. The interesting and curious will of Sir John is given in Appendix (E). "Nothwithstanding his prosperity during the greater part of his life," Thoroton relates, "Sir John was at last utterly ruined; yet the Earl of Shrewsbury, whom he had undesignedly made his enemy, helped to raise his children." Sir John was high sheriff for the counties of Derby and Nottingham 30 Henry VIII. and for the county of Lincoln 24 Henry VIII. and again for the counties of Derby and Nottingham 37 Henry VIII. He served also as knight of the shire 1 Edward VI. And 4 and 5 of Philip and Mary. He was thrice married; first to Anne, daughter of Sir George Neville, by whom he had two sons, John and Henry. This latter was in holy orders, and was installed Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral, March, 26, 1550. He died without issue. ...

In process of time, Sir John Markham became Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; according to Lord Campbell, he filled that office from the year 1396 to 1406, but it is elsewhere stated that he did not resign till 1408, the year before his death. The interesting anecdote of Prince Henry, the son of Henry IV. Having insulted the Chief Justice while on the bench, and been committed to prison for it, has popularly been applied to Sir W. Gascoigne; though the credit has also been claimed for others, and the circumstance would not have been noticed here, had it not been prominently brought forward by Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices. After alluding to several whose friends have imagined them to be the persons, he easily disposes of Chief Justices Hankford and Hody; and then goes on to say "the same impossibility does not stand in the way of a claim set up for Sir John Markham by his descendants, on the strength of some supposed family papers which have not been communicated to the public. He was a chief justice from the twentieth of Richard II. To the ninth of Henry IV.; but then he was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and, although the commitment is sometimes said to have been to the Fleet (the prison of that court), it is quite clear that no arraignment of Bardolph, or any other associate of the Prince, could have taken place in the Court of Common Pleas, which has-cognizance only of civil actions." Lord Campbell then proceeds, "I think I am entitled to a verdict in favour of my client, Sir W. Gascoigne." The evidence, such as it is, does probably preponderate in favour of Sir W. Gascoigne, though all that is really given is on the authority of Sir John Whidden, a puisne judge in the time of Elizabeth, who cites the case as taking place before Chief Justice Gascoigne; for no reliance can be placed on Shakespeare, who makes so interesting a scene of the circumstance in the second part of Henry IV; or on Sir Thomas Elyott, beyond their belief of the fact, for neither one nor the other so much as mention the name of the Chief Justice in question, which is the point at issue. Now in opposition to the case as cited by Sir John Whidden, wherein Gascoigne is said to have committed the Prince to prison, I will adduce the evidence of the "supposed family papers." They consist of memoranda* written by Francis Markham, a lawyer and author, a soldier too, and an accomplished scholar, who was a contemporary of Sir John Whidden and Shakespeare (whose play of Henry IV. He must often have witnessed acted, without ever dreaming that he had other than his own ancestor in his eye, when the chief justice was personated), bearing upon them however evident stamps that they were never intended for the "public," but certainly claiming Sir John Markham as the judge who committed the joyial Prince to the Fleet. The memorandum runs thus:"In H. the IV.'s time Sir John Markham was Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, when a servant of ye Prince of Wales, for coyning of money, was in Newgate to be judged before him: ye Prince sendeing to have him released, ye Judge refused, ye Prince with an unrulie route came and required it, ye Judge refused, ye Prince stroke ye Judge on the face, the Judge committed ye Prince to ye Fleet: ye King being told it, thanked God he had so good a Judge, and so obedient a sonne to yield ye lawe." * Bought a few years ago, when the Fairfax library was sold, and now in my possession - C.R.M. Now, considering the position that Francis Markham held both in learned and literary society, as a scholar and a lawyer, he was as likely to be well informed on such a subject, and to have as easy access to the same authorities, as the "very dull" Sir John Whidden, and his compeer Sir Robert Catlyne; nor was he likely to assert the fact without proper investigation, as in those days, so soon after the event, he might have been easily refuted. Moreover he seems to make the claim with so much ingenuousness, and little fear of being impugned, that at least he must have believed what he asserted to be true, which would scarcely have been the case if the common impression had run in the contrary direction. But Lord Campbell points out another piece of evidence in favour of his client, the circumstance of felonies being invariably tried at the court of King's Bench, and therefore that it was from that court that the Prince must have been committed; but I believe every authority agrees that the Prince was committed to the Fleet, the prison of the Common Pleas, so that on that score it may equally justly be said on the other side, as the Prince was committed to the prison of the Common Pleas, so that act was performed by the judge presiding there, and consequently that it was Markham and not Gascoigne who resented the outrage of the Prince. On the whole then, the evidence seems to be so equally balanced, that it requires all the penetration and acumen of a Chief Justice to decide which scale kicks the beam. But as the eminent lord who now fills that office has given his decision in favour of the judge to whom. "so many chroniclers, moralists, and poets" have attributed the fact, so in courtesy will the descendants of Sir John Markham resign their claim, and leave Sir William Gascoigne in peaceful possession of his high-souled deed. Nothing marks the difference that exists between one period of history and another, more than the value of money, and if we take an interval of several centuries the difference is perfectly surprising. To go back to about Edward the Fourth's reign, we shall find the price of various articles, or the pay of common labourers, or the salaries of high officers of the crown, as compared with those of the present day, to be almost incredible. For instance, good arable or pasture land in those times would let for six pence an acre, worth now from thirty to forty shillings: wheat in the year 1463 sold for two shillings a quarter, when in our time sixty or seventy shillings was not an unusual price: sheep then could be bought for four pence, and are now worth from thirty to forty shillings: a labourer's wages were a penny a day, a master carpenter's four pence, a bailiff twenty-three shillings a year. And if we go higher in the scale, we find that the emoluments of the officers of the crown were at the same ratio. It is recorded by Dugdale, that Chief Justice Markham, who lived in the reign of Henry IV. had for his salary only one hundred and seventy marks, little more than one hundred and fourteen pounds per annum; and even in the time of Henry VIII. the salary was only increased by thirty pounds. The salaries however were probably much increased by fees. What a change took place very soon after; for we find in Sir Edward Coke's time the salary, comprising fees, had risen to four thousand pounds a year; and in our own time both salary and fees have been computed at seven thousand pounds. In the fifteenth year of Richard II., the whole of East Markham became the property of Sir John Markham, and it was handed down entire to his descendants. Of the habits of thriftiness of his ancestor, Francis Markham gives but a sorry account, "for he added," says he, "to his father's land but twenty nobles a yeare and tyed yt with more fynes and assurances than all his rest was." Whether Sir John was addicted to feats of arms, as Sir John Fortescue the Chief Justice of the King's Bench was, some years after, will admit of more than a doubt when we consider the nature of a bequest made to him in the year 1392, by one Robert Usher de Est Retford, in which probably the taste and habits of the legatee were consulted. After a long list of legacies to different persons, follow these to himself and wife -"j pannum deauratum et chaumpe de bleu, et j coupe argenti stantem super tres leones, cum cooperculo in parte deauratio et inamyld." These were for his own use. For his wife, "j unam ollam argenteam enamyld cum cooperculo eidem pertinenti, et j annulum aureum cum quatuor marjoryss et j diamond interpositis." "Item lego Johanni Markham omnem armaturam meam exceptis uno hauberjon et j payr glovys de playt, quas lego Ricardo de Thyrston.* * Festamenta Eboracensia. Sir John Markham was married twice: his first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Henri de Cressi, in direct descent from Sir Roger de Cressi lord of Hodsac in the time of Henry II. Sir John de Clifton, of Clifton, who was afterwards killed at the battle of Shrewsbury, married the elder sister Katharine, and at the death of their brother Hugo de Cressi, his property was divided between the two sisters at Retford, in the tenth year of Henry IV., when Hodsac fell to the Cliftons; and Cressi Hall, Risegate, Braytoft, and Exton in Lincolnshire to the Markhams. Sir John married for his second wife Milicent, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Bekeryng, and widow of Sir Nicholas Bourdon, by whom he had two children: Sir John, afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England,† "the greatest ornament," says Camden, "of this family, who tempered his judgments with so much equity that his name will endure as long as time itself;" and Margaret, who married Sir Walter Pitwardyn. Milicent died in 1419. Upon a fair marble tomb in the church of East Markham was this inscription - Hic jacet Domina Milicensia quæ obiit 27 Sept. 1419. Upon it are impaled the arms of her different husbands on several coats. † He was the founder of the Sedgbrook line of Markhams, in the chapter on which family his life will be found. In an autograph at Clifton was to be seen, "not many years ago, the seal of Sir John Markham, l0 Henry IV., which is, Party per fesse, and on the upper part a demi lion rampant, which the elder branch still bear." The judge died in the tenth year of Henry IV., as may be seen by his monument still existing in East Markham church on the north side of the chancel. It bears the following inscription - Orate pro anima Johannis Markham Justiciarii, qui obiit in festo Sti Silvestri, anno Dom. 1409.* * Festamenta Eboracensia. By his first wife, Elizabeth de Cressi, Sir John had two sons and one daughter, Adela, the wife of Sir Robert Stanhope, who had a monument erected to their memory in York Minster now destroyed; Henry was the second son, who appears never to have been married, and the eldest succeeded his father. SIR ROBERT MARKHAM married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Burdon and Elizabeth de Bekeryng his wife; by which marriage the manors of Maplebec and Boughton were settled upon him. By this lady, Sir Robert had four children: Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Molineux of Hawton, created Knight Banneret by Richard III. At Berwick; Margaret, the wife of Sir Henry Willoughby, also a Knight Banneret; and Katharine, the wife of Sir Henry Bozome of Screveton. The fourth child was his son Robert, who succeeded him. The exact time of his death is uncertain; it was probably in the early part of the reign of Henry IV. Both Sir Robert and his lady were buried at Sedgbrook, the seat of his brother the chief justice, and in the "quayer of the church, in a window on the syde of the Ladyes chapel," are three pictures with inscriptions as follows - 1st. A man in coat armour, whereon the Markham coat; under it "Sir Robert Markham." 2d. A woman, and under her "Dame Elizabeth Markham." 3d. A man as before, and underneath "Sir Robert, Knt. Son of Sir Robert." A pious act is recorded of this worthy couple, of having founded, July the fifteenth, 1434, an oratory in the church of Southwell; and the arms of Markham of Cotham are stated to have been standing in one of the windows of the great hall of the palace of Southwell, probably thoes of his son and heir. * I visited the church of East Markham in 1831, when I was told by the sexton that a very short time before the monument had been moved from the centre to the north side of the chancel, where it then was. A stone-coffin was found under it on a level with the pavement, containing human bones, the last mortal remains of the judge. On the upper surface of the lid of the coffin, which I saw, was engraved a recumbent figure, shrouded in grave clothes; at each upper corner of which was a lion`s head. The coffin was reburied in the churchyard, on the south side of the church. The name of Judge Markham was still regarded with veneration by the inhabitants of the place.-D.F.M. SIR ROBERT MARKHAM married Joan the daughter and heir of Sir Giles Daubeny, and Mary, daughter of Sir Simon Leake, in whose right he held the manors of Cotham and Houghton by Newark; Joan carried the lordship, as heir, to Sir Robert Markham her husband. "The family of Markham," says Thoroton, "then made Cotham their principal residence and were of great note." Sir Robert was a warm supporter of the side of the White Rose in the wars between the rival factions of York and Lancaster, and did good service to the cause, for which he was rewarded at the coronation of Edward IV. immediately after the great victory of Towton-field, by being created a Knight of the Bath. He served the office of High Sheriff for the counties of Derby and Nottingham 10 Edw. IV. and also for the county of Lincoln·16 Edw. IV. Sir Robert had two sons, John who succeeded him, and Robert,* who married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William de Mering, a decendant of Agnes Markham and William de Sancta Cruce, mentioned above. He settled at Oxton in the county of Nottingham, and had a son Robert, who married Ela, daughter and heir of John Saperton, by whom he had five children. The eldest of these was William, whose grandson James died without issue, and thus the Oxton family of Markhams became extinct. * In Newark church, at the south-east corner of the choir, is a chantry chapel, "and in it a monument of Markham" (now disappeared) "over which there is an arch of freestone and on the side of that 'Orate pro animis Roberti Markham armigeri et. Elizabethæ uxoris ejus.'" On the outside of the tracery, which still remains, are several coats of arms coarsely cut.- Markham quartering Leake, and impaling Mering, Burdon, Bozome, &c.- D.F.M. Sir Robert died about the year 1476, and was succeeded by his eldest son. ...

WILLIAM DE MARCHAM of Marcham and Tuxford inherited his father's estates, but not his high office, and all that we know of him is that he greatly increased his paternal inheritance by an alliance with the family of Lexington, several members of which were high in the esteem of Henry III. Richard de Lexington and his wife Matilda de Cauz had three sons and two daughters. Alice, the elder daughter, was married to Sir Roland de Sutton, which family in after years, by right of his wife, obtained the title of Baron Lexington. Cecilia, the younger, was married to William de Marcham, and with her sister inherited the large possessions of the Lexingtons, - all the brothers, John* keeper of the signet to Henry III., Robert Lord of Lexington, and Henry Bishop of Lincoln, dying without issue. The lands that came to the Markhams by Cecilia went away with the heirs general of Robert Markham 17 Edw. I., only Markham was entailed on the heirs male. William† died about the year 1267, and was succeeded by his son. * Lord Keeper 1238, again 1242, again 1247, and a fourth time 1248, governor of the castles of Peo and Bolsover in Derbyshire, and of Oxford, 13 Hen. III. † William de Marcham held a knight's fee in the reign of Henry III. in the honour of Tickhill. RICHARD DE MARKHAM, ‡ living in the time of Henry III., shared with the family of Roland de Sutton, in right of his mother, all the vast possessions of the Lexington family; they being found the next heirs of the Bishop of Lincoln, who outlived his brothers. Richard de Marcham thus, besides other lands, held of the King in capiti half a knight's fee and the culture (or wong) and wood in Knesale, also in Stratham three cultures of John de Eyville. Whom Richard married we have not discovered, but he left three sons, Robert who succeeded him, Richard, and William. ‡ "The partition of the Lexington lands was made 43 Hen. III. By fine between William Sutton, son of Roland (of whom Lord Dudley decends), and Richard Marcham, son of William." Thoroton, p.380. Richard de Marcham granted the monks of St. Mary at Blith 20s. per annum for the moiety of the mill at Murihild bridge; which the said prior and monks granted to him and his heirs. SIR ROBERT DE MARCHAM, the eldest son of Richard, appears to have had no sons, but three daughters: CICELY, married first to Sir John Bekering, and had a son Thomas, whose grandson had to wife the daughter and coheir of Sir John de Lowdham, whose sister Margaret married Thomas Foljambe. Sir Thomas Bekering had a daughter Milicent, who married secondly Sir John Markham, the elder judge, as will be hereafter noted. BERTHA, the wife of William de Longvilliers; and AGNES, married to William de Sancta Cruce. The wife of Sir Robert de Marcham was Sarah, daughter and coheir of Jordan de Snitterton, in the county of Derby. Sir Robert seems to have been a man of small account, if we may believe the accurate Historian of Nottinghamshire, who says "Robert de Marcham was a great man, and had an esquire named Robert de Fowick, 2 E.1." He left to his daughters, besides the lands mentioned above, at his death, which took place in the 17th year of the reign of Edward I., a capital messuage in Marnham, and a capital messuage in West Markham, seven acres of arable land in demesne, twenty of meadow, and a watermill, paying the prior of Monk-Breton 8d. per annum, and the nuns of Wallin-Welles 6d. Sir Robert dying without issue male, the entailed property, that is, all he inherited on his father's side, decended to his next brother. RICHARD DE MARCHAM does not appear to have made the same figure as his brother, and in all probability lived a retired life, being considerably advanced in life before he succeeded to his fortune. At his demise the property decended to his son Sir John Markham, for about this time the name begins to be spelt after this fashion. WILLIAM DE MARCHAM, the third son of Richard and Cecilia de Lexington, was an ecclesiastic, and a very eminent man in his day. In the year 1290, he was raised to the office of Lord Treasurer by Edward I., in which post he continued till 1295. In the mean time he was nominated to the see of Wells, being elected on the Friday after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, and consecrated on Whitsunday 1293.* The bishop was so highly esteemed by all ranks of people for his piety and power of working miracles, that after his death he was selected by Pope Boniface VIII. As worthy to be enrolled in the Calendar of Saints. This sanctified station however he was doomed never to attain, and Polydore Virgil assigns the following reason. "When the King's treasury was empty, he advised his royal master to take all the treasures from monasteries and churches, and pay the soldiers with it, for there was great war." And true enough it is, that in the twenty-second year of the reign, Edward granted a commission, appointing the bishop with the lords of the Exchequer to receive fines to his use, from all archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other ecclesiastical persons, ladies, widows, and other women, in lieu of military service in the expedition that was then destined for Gascony. Whether this scheme arose from the bishop's advice, or whether he was made to father the unpopular exaction, seems very doubtful; but at all events his conduct was so condemned at Rome, that his name never occupied the Calendar. * See Appendix (A). He died in the year 1302, and his tomb was to be seen not long ago in the cathedral church of Wells, with the following inscription- "Hic jacet Gulielmus de Marcham, hujus quondam ecclesiæ episcopus, et Angliæ sub Eduardo Primo Rege tresaurarius, qui obiit anno domini 1302, cum sedisset annos decem." SIR JOHN MARKHAM, Lord of East Markham, was living in the reigns of the first three Edwards. He was an eminent lawyer, and arrived at the dignity of King's Sergeant. He married Joan, the daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Bottumsell or Bothomsell, and her coat is impaled with Markham in Markham, Cotham, and Maplebeck. By her he had three sons: William, who succeeded him, but died childless; Robert, of whom hereafter; and Nigel, who was the tenant of William of Lyneham, of a manor in Markham 9 Edw. I. By his second wife Sir John had two daughters, Elizabeth, who was 12, and Cecilia, who was 10 years of age, at his death, which took place in 1329. He was buried in the cemetery of the church of East Retford.* * Johannes de Markham senior, sepultus in cemeterio ecclesiae de East Retford 23 Edw.III. His legatees were, his daughter Cecilia, William de Gayforth, who married his daughter Elizabeth, and their son Joseph, and William de Markham, leaving all his goods to his son, and making him his heir. Dodsworth MSS. See Appendix (B). SIR ROBERT MARCHAM succeeded his brother William, who died childless, and, following the same profession as his father, became also King's Serjeant. He married Isabel, the daughter and heir of Sir John de Caunton, of Caunton, and by her had issue one son. SIR JOHN MARKHAM, following in the steps of his father and grandfather, applied himself to the study of the law, in which he was eminently successful. In Richard the Second's time he had become serjeant-at-law, and was entrusted to draw up the instrument for deposing that monarch; moreover, he was appointed one of the commission to receive the crown which the unfortunate Richard resigned in favour of his rival Henry of Bolingbroke. A curious speech made upon this occasion to the King by Sir William Thirnyng, the Chief Justice, will not be without interest. "The wordes whych William Thirnyng spake to Monsire Richard late kynge of Englande, at the Tower of London, in his chamber, on Wednesday night next after the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, were as follows. "`Sire, - It is well knowen to 3ow that ther was a parlement somoned of all the states of the Reaume for to be at Westmynstre, and to begin on the Tuesday in ye moru of ye Fest of St. Michel ye Arch Angel, that was 3esterday; by cause of ye which somons aH the states of this land were there gadyrd, the whych states hole made the same persones that ben comen here to 3owe nowe, her procurators, and gaven hem full autorite and power, and charged hem for to saye ye wordes that we shall saye to 3owe in her name, and on her behalfe; that is to wytten, the Bishop of Asa for Er-Bishoppes and Bishoppes; the Abbot of Glastenbury for Abbots and Priors, and alle other men of holie chirche, seculers and rewelers; the Erle of Glocestre for Dukes and Erles; the Lord Berkely for Barons and Bannerettes; Sir Thomas Erpyngham for alle the Bachelers and Comons be Sothe; Sir Thomas Grey for alle the Bachelers and Comons be Northe; and my Felawe Johan Markham and me for to come with hem for all thes states. And so, Sire, thes wordes and the doying that we shall saye to 3owe, is not onlich our wordes, but the doying of all the states of this londe, and our charge in her name. And he answered and sayde that he wyste wele that we wolde noghte saye but as we were chargyd. "`Syre, 3e remembre 3owe wele, that on Moneday in the Fest of St. Michel the Arch Angel, ryght here in thys chambre, and in what presence, 3e renounced and cessed of the state of kynge and lordshippe, and of alle the dignite and wyrschippe that longed therto, and assoiled alle 3owr leiges of her leigaure and obeisance that longed to 3owe, uppe the foarme that is contened in the same renunciation and cession, which 3e redde 3our selfe by 3owr owne writinge. "`Upon whiche 3e made and ordained 3our procurators the Erbyschoppe of York and the Byschoppe of Hereforde, for to notifye and declare in 3owe name this renunciation and cession at Westmynstre to all the states, and all the people that was ther gadyrd, by cause of the somons aforesaid, the whych thus don 3esterday by thes Lordes 3our procurators, and wele herde and understanden, thes renunciation and cession were planelich and frelich accepted, and fullich agreed by alle the states and people aforesayde; and over this, Syre, at the instance of all thes states and people ther were certaine articles of defautes in 3our governance 3edde ther, and tho wele herde and plenelich understanden to all the states aforesayde, hem thoght hem so treue, and so notarie and knowen, that by the causes and no othir, as ther saide, and havynge consideration to 3our owne wordes in zour owne renunciation and cession, that 3e were not worthie, ne sufficient, ne able to governe for 3our owne demerits, as it is more plenelich conteyned therin, hem thoght that was reasonable and cause for to depose 3owe, and her commissaries that her made and ordeyned as it is of record, ther declared and decreed and adjudged 3owe for to be deposed, and pryved 3owe of the estate of kynge, and of the lordshippe contened in the renunciation and cession aforesayde, and of alle the dignite and wyrschyppe and alle the administration that longed therto. And we, procurators of all these states and people aforesayde, as we be charged by hem, and by her autorite gyffen us, and in her name 3elde 3owe uppe for all the states and people aforesayde, homage leige, and feaute, and alle legiance, and alle other bondes, charges, and services that long therto, and that none of alle thes states and people fro thys tyme forward ne bere 3owe feyth, ne do 3owe obesance as to kynge. "And he answered and seyed, that he lokyd not therafter, but he seyd that after all thys he hoped that hys cozyn wolde be gude lorde to hym."* * Howell. Thomas de Walsingham. See Appendix (C) ...

A HISTORY OF THE MARKHAM FAMILY BY THE REV. DAVID FREDERICK MARKHAM CHAPTER I LINE OF MARKHAMS OF MARKHAM, AFTERWARDS OF COTHAM. West and East Markham are two parishes contiguous to each other, in the county of Nottingham, and southern division of the hundred of Bassetlaw, which gave their name to the family of Markham, where they had been seated from time immemorial, and were, says Camden in his Britannia, "very famous heretofore both for antiquity and valor." The family of Markham traces its origin to a date anterior to the Norman Conquest; and, though we cannot penetrate into the remote period beyond the time of Edward the Confessor, yet subsequently to that reign the line is unbroken. After the Norman Conquest, almost the whole of England was parcelled out among the adventurers who followed William the Conqueror, and West Markham became the foe of Roger de Busli, a chieftain in high estimation with William, who, in addition to this, conferred upon him no less than thirtynine manors in the county of Nottingham. Under this Roger, the manor of West Markham was held by CLARON, seated there before the time of the Norman Invasion; whose successors assumed the name of the place of their residence, after the manner of their conquerors, and were styled "de Marcham," the ancient mode of spelling the name. CLARON, then, is the first person who can be fixed upon as the origin of the Markham stock. He was succeeded in the family possessions by his son ROGER, who not only possessed that which decended to him, but also held a manor in East Markham; and in the reign of the first Henry, we find that FULC his son had succeeded to the paternal inheritance. There is no record of these two men besides what is known of the lands they enjoyed; and certainly in those early days after the subjugation of the country, few or none of the Saxons were trusted by their suspicious conquerors with any high place of trust, and consequently both inclination and policy would suggest to them to be contented with living unnoticed in obscurity. Fulc, however, seems not to have been unmindful of what was due to religion (as it was esteemed in those days), for it is said that he "gave to the monastery of St. Mary of Blithe, and the monks there, a toft and croft, and six selions of land in Est Marcham." SIR ALEXANDER DE MARCHAM, Lord of Marcham, his son, was born about the year 1130 A.D. and is the first man of note of the family, having distinguished himself in the turbulent wars of Stephen`s reign. He seems to have been in high credit with Henry II., and among other places of trust was appointed castellan or constable of Nottingham Castle; one of the most important strongholds in the kingdom, built at a great labour and expence by William Peverel, a natural son of the Conqueror, who is said to have intrusted the command of it to Sir Alured de Clifton, and afterwards to his son Sir Robert. Who were the intermediate castellans I do not find; but Sir Alexander held it through the reign of Richard I. and into that of John.* * "In Markham churchyard be many tombstones cut à·Í antique, cross-legged, with shields and other ornaments." Ex coll. F. Markham. These have long disappeared. In the sixth epistle of Francis Markham's "Book of Honour," he compares the office of castellan to that of viscount, and states that in France they were as much esteemed. The office obtained from the King "letters patent of great trust and fidelitie, as may be seen by divers precedents at this time extant: and for mine owne parte, I myselfe have seene one granted to an ancestor of mine owne, by the name and style of Sir Alexander Markham, knight, castellan of Nottingham Castle; the tenour or purport of which commission or grant was in effect and substance almost the very same which at this day is granted to the lords lieutenant of the several counties of England:" and this agrees with the description of the office as laid down by Mr. Hartshorne in his account of Rockingham Castle, wherein he shows that, "during the absence of the King, constables (comites stabuli) were appointed to the custody of the royal castles. They usually possessed the grant for three years, sometimes for life, but chiefly during the King's pleasure, 'cum pertinentibus habenduin quamdiu Regi placuerit.' The duties of the office consisted in seeing that the royal grants in his district were not abused, such as the transfer of mills, and of land; in assisting at the execution of traitors; in keeping state prisoners in safe custody; in paying the garrisoned soldiers; in observing the legal provisions concerning such as came to tournaments; in defending the possessions of the Church. The privilege of holding a castle as its constable was considered so honourable, that it was only confided to men of high military renown, or of ascertained courage and attachment to the crown." The castle of Nottingham was one of the principal military posts in the kingdom; we have therefore every reason to conclude that Sir Alexander was not the least among the warlike chiefs of that warlike age, and that he had done good service to the crown. Whom he married is not known, and the time of his death is uncertain, but he left one son who succeded him. ...

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SECOND ANNUAL MARCUM FAMILY REUNION Sunday June 4, 2000 At Ralph Marcum's Hooten Old Town Attention descendants of Thomas Pleasant and Nancy Carr Marcum! It's time to mark your calendar's because the Marcum Family Reunion is just around the corner! Descendants of Thomas and Nancy's children are welcome, too, which would include: Rachel (Marcum) Gabbard Hattie (Marcum) Alumbaugh Neal Marcum Ned Marcum Farris Marcum Boss Marcum Henry Marcum Green Marcum Lewis Marcum Jim Willie Marcum Franklin Marcum We will try to gather in around noon or earlier and have dinner together at 1:00 p.m. As for food-EVERYONE bring a dish. You might also want to bring picnic utensils, such as stryofoam items, napkins, etc. You might want to bring a few lawn chairs, too. Also bring any old photos or family history that you would like to share. (Make sure you label yours and/or have them in an album.) If you have any questions/comments, contact: Ralph Marcum at 606/287-3855 Tonya Marcum-Cool at 606/965-2116 Violet (Gabbard) Kostun at 606/287-8239 or Martha Jo (Marcum) Carr at 859/824-9466 Directions: Hooten Old Town is located just off Highway 421 out of McKee, KY. Turn right at McKee Carwash on to Highway 89 South (Indian Creek Road). Travel approximately 2 miles, then turn right at the Indian Creek Baptist Church/Hooten Road. The reunion site is only 2 miles up this road.

CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS POSTING: TIP... From the main menu page, (or any page if you so wish), instead of just "LEFT BUTTON" clicking your mouse on the blue link to enter the page, rather... "RIGHT BUTTON" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "RIGHT BUTTON" click with your mouse pointer over the blue text to bring up the small WIN95/IE menu, select "Open in new window". This keeps your menu page open the whole time for quick referencing and navigation of the site. Use the Alt and TAB keys to switch between open pages.

Mye Goodye Cosynes, Nearly ALL links are in """BLUE""" text on this website !!!. "GM" has arrow buttons as well as """BLUE""" text to show further links. These blue coloured links are using the word "NEXT" and in one or two cases "ENTER". But """BLUE""" text indicates a further link to other pages. TIP... From the main menu page, (or any page if you so wish), instead of just "LEFT BUTTON" clicking your mouse on the blue link to enter the page, rather "LEFT BUTTON" click with your mouse pointer over the blue text to bring up the small WIN95/IE menu, select "Open in new window". This keeps your menu page open the whole time for quick referencing and navigation of the site. Use the Alt and TAB keys to switch between open pages... Yours Sincerely, Sir Ken Markham, K.C.B., (95). [A Phenomenal Researcher In The Mists Of Time] [Genealogist Extra-Ordinaire]

Mye Goodye Cosynes, I am pleased to announce that our next Markham book is well on its way to this list and the "TW" website. This book is the one written by the Rev. David Markham: "A HISTORY OF THE MARKHAM FAMILY". Our Goodye Cosyne, David Markham, from New Zealand, has offered to place this book into Word7 format for us. This means he will do ALL the typing of text, scanning of pictures, and layout of this original Markham book in Word 7.xx format. I will probably do an HTML website format of the book myself, as this is relatively quick and easy to do from a Word7 format. Apparently this book is now complete from the 'Index' to the end of the first chapter !!!. Some large scans of some of the pictures might also be made available on the "TW" website. I am hoping to have this up on the "TW" website soon, between a few days to 2 weeks or so, depending how much problems I have with the phone lines here. I am virtually off-line at the moment due to this problem. It will be announced as soon as these files are uploaded. There a dummy file on the site at the moment. ====================================================================== To answer some questions: >>> ... in reading under Pastor Columbus Carl Marcum, I can only get the dedication. It would seem there would be more pages unless the History of the Markhams of Northamptonshire is what actually was printed. Could you please explain this to me. <<< I am not sure I fully understand the question/s, but remember to read VERY carefully the very first page to the whole "TW" website. It tries hard to tell the reader that MOST LINKS ARE AT THE FAR BOTTOM OF THE PAGES !!!. This is done like this so that they do not print on the Markham book pages, but on a separate page altogether. It does mean that one must go right down to the far bottom of the page to click on the word "NEXT", or int the case of "GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA" I think it was, the links at the bottom of the pages were black pictures of an arrow right and an arrow left. These are to go to the next page (arrow right) or back to previous page (arrow left). This is one of the very few exceptions where one only has to look for the word "NEXT" at the bottom of a page. To get to the bottom of a web page quickly to see if there are any links to further pages, just press the "END" button, it will take you to the end of the web page straight away. "GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA": was only in the region of about 21 pages. The scanned picture version of this book is there, this is the entire book scanned for you. The website HTML format is also available on the "TW" website here. It is a fairly short book. "HISTORY OF THE MARKHAM FAMILY... NORTHAMPTONSHIRE...": This was about 120 pages long or so. This entire book is on the "TW" website in its web HTML format. "MARKHAM MEMORIALS": This very long set of two volumes, being about 577 pages in total, is available in its entirity, in web HTML format on the "TW" website. I have just a week ago printed my own first copy of this book for my father, who recently had a heart-attack. I made one or two slight changes, and only one picture needs to be changed again. Printing on A4 paper it stacked a pile about 2.5" high. A Word7 version of this book might come about next year. The advantage of Word7 format is mainly cleaner printing with page breaks etc. "A HISTORY OF THE MARKHAM FAMILY" BY THE REV. DAVID FREDERICK MARKHAM: This classic Markham book is now busy being put together for us, and will hopefully be placed on the "TW" website in the near future in a Word7 format to start off with. It will probably also be placed into an web HTML format as well there-after. This is NOT yet available on the "TW" website !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. "GENEOLOGY OF THE MARKHAM FAMILY" BY WILBUR F. MARKHAM: This is the latest complete Markham book to be added to the "TW" website. It is available in three versions, a scanned picture version, and a web HTML version, and a Word7 version designed for A4 paper. This book is given to us by Beverly (Eiser) Markham. * All these books are found just by clicking on the links in the menus on the "TW" website. The problem you might have experienced may have been caused by me uploading to the website at the same time you were trying to view the pages. The only pages where there will be items such as pictures that don't show, are in one of Columbus' chapters where all the picture emblems of the tribes are not available, and the other, is in the Markham Arms chapter, I do not have all the pictures of the different Markham arms, so only the description of the arms is shown with a blank picture. Every item in the website has been of interest to myself. There is still volumes to be added in time to come. Some very future interests for the website are full lineages in html on the Josiah, John, Deacon Daniel lines, Census Records - All, and maybe a couple more books... If you feel you still can not access a page(s), just email me directly again, and we can sort it out from there. I have just tested all the links in Columbus' section of "TW", and everything seems to be working fine... Yours Sincerely, Sir Ken Markham, K.C.B., (95). [A Phenomenal Researcher In The Mists Of Time] [Genealogist Extra-Ordinaire]

Markham-Upshaw Family Reunion New Braunfels, Texas June 17, 2000 Descendants of John Bunyon Markham - Sarah Elizabeth Upshaw Descendants of any brothers & sisters of John B. Markham Descendants of John Upshaw - Tabitha Lawless Contact: Charles A Markham <camark2@juno.com> Sarah Schultz died in 1999. She had been living in an assisted living residence since the death of her husband in 1998. She was an expert on the Upshaw's- she left her files for the Temple Library- I just did not have the room and did not want the responsibility that would have went with keeping them updated. [Sarah Schultz lived in Temple, TX when I met her in 1974. She went into the NSDAR on Lt. Leroy Upshaw of Amherst Co. VA and Elbert Co. GA. She is a descendant of Thomas Allen Upshaw, Sarah's brother. - David] Everyone is welcome to the reunion- the dinner will be catered and will cost each $5.50 we have reserved area 34 & 35. It is a covered pavillion and also extends to area under ythree huge live oak trees and is within 50 feet of the comal springs. It is a beautiful setting and everone should enjoy it . It is near the restooms and people with disabilities should not have any problems. I wish I could get Lucille Reeves from the Noxubee County Mississippi Historical Society to come but her eye sight is extremely bad and she just can't make it. Billie Gene Poland from Bienville, La should be able to shed some light on some things pertaining to the Markham's. Please spread the word- the more the better. If this one comes off as expected we will make it an annual affair in June each year. We might use Salado as the next site- however- you don't have as many places to chose from as far as motels and resturants but it would be historically tied to the family more than New Braunfels. Charles [I think it was the Nimrod Markham family that settled in Limestone county. Pretty sure he was a brother of the first John Bunyon Markham, the one that died in Louisiana in 1856. - David] David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm

Mye Goodye Cosynes, The new Word 7.xx version of this book is now available on the "TW" website. This version is approximately 3 times the size of the original book, and is designed for printing on A4 paper. So all 3 versions of this book is now on the website. I am experiencing tree-mendous difficulties with phone lines here locally, so any-one wishing to send large emails to me, should rather confirm first with me to do this... Yours Sincerely, Sir Ken Markham, K.C.B., (95). [A Phenomenal Researcher In The Mists Of Time] [Genealogist Extra-Ordinaire]

1. The 2 Arkansas Markham marriages 1863-1900 2. The 2 Hopkins County, Kentucky Markham marriages 1851-1900 3. The 27 Hopkins County, Kentucky Marcum marriages 1851-1900 4. The Ionia, Michigan City Directories of 3 Markham residents in 1891 5. The St. Louis, Missouri Directories of 1 Marcum resident in 1889-1890 6. The St. Louis, Missouri Directories of at least 9 Markham residents in 1889-1890 as well as persons employed by the business of W.H.Markham & Sons 7. Etc. They've been on Ancestry.com lately for free. There is also an article I received elsewhere that the 20th century Oklahoma history is being preserved by the Genealogical Society of Utah and The Church of Jesus Charist of Latter-day Saints. The photographing documents of Oklahoma's birth certificates, divorce decrees, and school censuses in Oklahoma's 77 counties has been going on for 15 years. The Atoka County, the 29th county to be documented will be finished in about seven more months. The groups mission is to collect copies of family records in every county and parish in the United States. -Lois

Mye Goodye Cosynes, It is with great pleasure I announce the new "TW" web book, "Geneology of the Markham Family" by Wilbur F. Markham.... This book is now on the "TW" website, with many corrections, after obtaining a copy of the original book. This books comes your way in two formats, HTML and a scanned page picture version. A third Word 7.xx version will also be done sometime. This book has been made available to us for our research and interests by Beverly Markham, thank you !!!. I did not edit out all the spots and dots in the scanned version. This is intentional so one can get a better feel for the size and shape of the original book. One can also see that it has been stapled together, etc. I intend to do a larger scanned page version soon, as the text is small. You can find the "TW" website and new Markham book here: "The Wanderer Above The Mists": http://members.xoom.com/kenmarkham/ "Geneology of the Markham Family": http://members.xoom.com/kenmarkham/gmf/ Yours Sincerely, Sir Ken Markham, K.C.B., (95). [A Phenomenal Researcher In The Mists Of Time] [Genealogist Extra-Ordinaire]

I am interested in learning when the reunion in /near Salt Lake is being held this year. (Or is it being held?) V R K

I've run across a family group of Marcom's in north central Texas that don't belong to my Basley Graves Marcom descendants. In talking to Edith Pauline Chapman Marcom, widow of John Marcom, she said her husbands family was from PA. She said her husband had tried to do his family history before he died but didn't get anywhere (he died young at age 57).. I told her I'd see if I could help. If anyone on the list is researching PA Marcom's, let me know and I'll put you in touch with another part of your family. Patricia

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, 4chicks-mom wrote: > I've run across a family group of Marcom's in north central Texas that don't > belong to my Basley Graves Marcom descendants. In talking to Edith Pauline > Chapman Marcom, widow of John Marcom, she said her husbands family was from > PA. She said her husband had tried to do his family history before he died > but didn't get anywhere (he died young at age 57).. I told her I'd see if I > could help. If anyone on the list is researching PA Marcom's, let me know > and I'll put you in touch with another part of your family. > > Patricia The family wouldn't be from Ladonia, Texas, would it? Dr. Gordon Marcom graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy & Surgery in 1950, one semester ahead of my father, I think. He and my father always thought they were probably cousins. Both of Dr. Marcom's sons' became doctors, I think. One of them was named Rodney, and was a doc at Cache OK for awhile before going into the Army. This was 20 years ago. David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm

--part1_46.43a463b.262fe7f6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/19/00 10:41:07 PM Central Daylight Time, wardb@verona.k12.wi.us writes: Please note that this is a forwarded message and respond to wardb@verona.k12.wi.us > ubj: Markham family > Date: 4/19/00 10:41:07 PM Central Daylight Time > From: wardb@verona.k12.wi.us (Brenda Ward) > To: bmarble@aol.com > > > Dear Ms. Marble, > I am just starting to research my family, and it seems like you have a lot > of information about Markhams. My grandmother was a Markham from Sangamon > County, Illinois (Springfield). Her father was John Markham; mother was > Florence Breeze Markham. My grandmother was born in Colorado, the second > oldes child (I think). The children were John, Isabell (my grandmother), > Florence, and Ada. My grandmother was the only one of the family who > married. I don't know what happened to the son John. The two younger > sisters, Ada and Florence, lived in Springfield, Illinois in the family > house until their deaths in the 1980's and 1990's. The father John Markham > was affiliated with mines, I believe. My mother says he was a "mine boss" > at the mine in Riverton, Illinois. I assume he was mining in Colorado > also. Does any of this information link with yours? Any help you can > offer will be greatly appreciated. > Brenda Ward > Madison, Wisconsin --part1_46.43a463b.262fe7f6_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <wardb@verona.k12.wi.us> Received: from rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (rly-yd02.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.2]) by air-yd02.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:41:07 2000 Received: from rs6000.verona.k12.wi.us (rs6000.verona.k12.wi.us [205.173.179.6]) by rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:40:59 -0400 Received: from niemeyer (msn-12-32.dial.binc.net [198.70.23.32]) by rs6000.verona.k12.wi.us (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA24942 for <bmarble@aol.com>; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:45:53 GMT Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000419223936.00953ae0@verona.k12.wi.us> X-Sender: wardb@verona.k12.wi.us (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:43:49 -0500 To: bmarble@aol.com From: Brenda Ward <wardb@verona.k12.wi.us> Subject: Markham family Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Ms. Marble, I am just starting to research my family, and it seems like you have a lot of information about Markhams. My grandmother was a Markham from Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield). Her father was John Markham; mother was Florence Breeze Markham. My grandmother was born in Colorado, the second oldes child (I think). The children were John, Isabell (my grandmother), Florence, and Ada. My grandmother was the only one of the family who married. I don't know what happened to the son John. The two younger sisters, Ada and Florence, lived in Springfield, Illinois in the family house until their deaths in the 1980's and 1990's. The father John Markham was affiliated with mines, I believe. My mother says he was a "mine boss" at the mine in Riverton, Illinois. I assume he was mining in Colorado also. Does any of this information link with yours? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Brenda Ward Madison, Wisconsin --part1_46.43a463b.262fe7f6_boundary--

I am looking for any Markham in the St. Louis, MO area that could be of help in providing information about the St. Louis area. My son is graduating from college in May and has taken a job in St. Louis. If you are familiar with the area and would like to provide some information on the area I can be reached at parkerfamily@cs.com We live in the Bedford, Lynchburg area of Virginia. Thanks in advance Malcolm Parker

Dear Sherry Cunningham ( Marcum ) I am Columbus C. Marcum of Wayne County West Virginia , and the Josiah in question was married to Eady McDonald when he came , or before came to what is now Wayne County West Virginia, and his birth date is 1759 and died 1846 , Josiah enlisted in January 1780 as a Private in Virginia in a Company commanded by Captain bowyer and attached to a regiment commanded by a Colonel Campbell. He served with General Greene at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. He and his sons were granted large land holdings along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River as direct compensation for his service to this Nation , and his extended family number in the thousands and in most every state in the union now. There is another large Family of Marcums located in Wayne County Kentucky and one can easily be confused when researching the family names for there are all the same names used over and again and this makes me think that we will someday find out that they were all brothers of the same family when they all lived in Virginia before the American Revolution... Columbus Carl Marcum Wayne , WV. > Dear Sir Ken, > > Which Josiah Marcum is this? Josiah Markham(Marcum) and Mary Polly Bales > are my great great grandparents. My great grandfather was John Frank > Marcum. My grandfather was John Walter Marcum and my father was Frank John > Marcum. > > Please let me know. > > > Thanks, > > Sherry L. Cunningham (Marcum) http://members.citynet.net/wcghs/ "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."