Isham of PytchleyA documentary genealogy

Generation X

Giles Isham

1519–1559

Life

Giles Isham of Pytchley, esquire, was son and heir of Euseby Isham.1 His father brought him up in learning and sent him to London to study the law, whereby he so profited that on his father's death he retired to Pytchley, being in the commission of the peace and "not a littell estemed of a great many and especially of Fraunces the then Earle of Bedford, whose steward he was."? He sat twice in Parliament for Peterborough in the 1550s.1 He died on 31 August 1559 and was buried at Pytchley on 1 September.1

He married Mary Watts of Knotting, Bedfordshire, who was buried on 11 June 1560 at Pytchley, by whom he had issue three daughters and coheirs.1

  1. Member of House of Commons

? marks 1 statement for which no attached source was found.

Life sketch as written on the FamilySearch Family Tree. Footnotes link each statement to the attached source that supports it; they were matched by machine against the source summaries and should be read as a guide, not a verification.

Records

  1. 1517
    Secondary

    "Family and Education

  2. 1546
    Secondary

    Date: 1546 (will of Euseby); published 1906.

  3. 1552
    Record

    Chancery/enrolment naming Giles Isham, esquire, of Northamptonshire.

  4. 1553
    RecordE 368/334

    Exchequer enrolment naming Giles Isham in a land/rent context.

  5. 1553
    RecordE 368/336

    Exchequer LTR: Giles Isham as party appearing on successive days.

  6. 1554
    RecordE 159/335

    Scriptum of Thomas Rege and Giles Isham, gentlemen, granting/warranting issues and rents to Richard Padbury.

  7. 1554
    RecordE 368/334

    Exchequer: Giles Isham, esquire, of Northamptonshire, accounting/appearance.

  8. 1555
    Secondary

    VCH Pytchley narrates: Gregory purchased Engaynes (fine of 1555 with Giles); Giles held a brief manor called Ishams of Robert Isham clerk as of Staffords; Staffords then to Gregory's son Euseby of Braunston; fines/recoveries 1580 (⅓ Geynes & Ishams), 1587 (Pytchley & Bassets), 1606 (Pytchley & Braunston) as Sir Euseby …

  9. 1558
    RecordCP 40/1178

    Robert Isham, esquire, Robert Isham, clerk, John and Henry Isham, executors of Gregory Isham; John also as citizen and mercer of London.

  10. 1558
    RecordKB 27/1199

    Same King's Bench enrolment naming Robert clerk, John and Henry as Gregory's executors (Giles's brothers).

  11. 1563
    Record

    Same enrolment: Giles Isham, esquire, and his brother Robert Isham, clerk, jointly seised (Pytchley lands).

  12. 1624
    Secondary

    Metcalfe prints Augustus Vincent's 1624 genealogy: Thomas Isham of Pitchley, Esq., married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Vere of Addington; their son Eusebius Isham of Pitchley, Esq., married Anne, daughter of Giles Poulton of Desborough; issue include Giles (son and heir), Robert 'a Clarke', Gregory of Braunston (m. …