Isham of PytchleyA documentary genealogy

Generation X

John Isham

1530–1595

Life

John Isham, esquire, of Lamport, Northamptonshire, spent much of his career as a citizen and mercer of London between about 1542 and 1572, trading as a Merchant Adventurer.1,2 His forbears had been small landowners at Pytchley since about 1300.3 In youth he was one of the younger children of Euseby Isham on the family's Ringstead estate;4,5 in later life he held the Lamport property he had acquired from Sir William Cecil.6

He married Elizabeth Barker in London in 1552.? He died on 17 March 1595 and was buried at Lamport on 19 March 1595.7,8

For a modern account of his London mercantile career, see Chapter 8 of Stephen Alford, London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's London.

  1. CP 40/1170: John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, in debt process
  2. CP 40/1221: John Isham alias Isham, citizen and mercer of London, by attorney
  3. Visit. Northants. (Metcalfe) pp.181–2: Isham of Pitchley / Braunston / Lamport
  4. Northamptonshire Families (1906): Euseby Isham of Ringstead (d. 1546) and Anne Pulton
  5. Will of Euseby Isham of Pytchley/Ringstead, 16 Aug 1546, proved Dec 1546 (PCC; Longden)
  6. CP 40/1363: debt owed to John Isham of Lamport, esquire
  7. CP 40/1619: executors of John Isham of Lamport
  8. Will of John Isham 1594/1595

? 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. 1546
    Secondary

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

  2. 1546
    Secondary

    Date: 16 August 1546 (will); proved December 1546.

  3. 1553
    RecordCP 40/1162

    John Isham alias … mercer of London appoints William Pereson as his attorney in Common Pleas.

  4. 1555
    RecordCP 40/1169

    English-language condition on a recognizance: 'where one John Isham citizen and mercer of London…' — contemporary English style for the mercer.

  5. 1555
    RecordCP 40/1169

    John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, appears in his own person and demands against a defendant (novel disseisin / land process).

  6. 1555
    RecordCP 40/1169

    Adjacent English recognizance enrolment in the same term as the citizen-and-mercer style for John Isham.

  7. 1555
    RecordCP 40/1170

    John Isham alias John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, by attorney offers himself in Common Pleas process.

  8. 1555
    RecordCP 40/1170

    John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, sues London tradesmen in a plea of debt.

  9. 1558
    RecordCP 40/1178

    Robert Isham esquire, Robert Isham clerk, John Isham and Henry Isham, executors of the testament of Gregory Isham, citizen and mercer of London (also styled Giles/Robert/John/Harry Isham jointly executors). Separately John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, appears by attorney.

  10. 1558
    RecordCP 40/1178

    Adjacent enrolment to the Gregory Isham executor pleading naming Robert, John and Henry.

  11. 1558
    RecordCP 40/1183

    Robert, John and Henry Isham, executors of the testament of Gregory Isham, citizen and mercer of London, offer themselves in Common Pleas.

  12. 1558
    RecordCP 40/1184

    Further process: Robert, John and Henry as executors of Gregory Isham, citizen and mercer of London.

  13. 1559
    RecordCP 40/1187

    Robert, John and Henry Isham, executors of Gregory Isham citizen and mercer of London, continue process into 1559.

  14. 1561
    Index
  15. 1562
    RecordCP 40/1221

    John Isham alias John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, by William Pyreson attorney, offers himself in Common Pleas.

  16. 1562
    RecordE 159/347

    English enrolment of a statute staple acknowledged to the use of John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, before Anthony Browne.

  17. 1562
    RecordE 159/353

    Information that John Isham and Henry Isham of London, mercers, contrary to statute, dealt in a loan involving William Harrowdon and Thomas Tresham for £172.

  18. 1562
    Index
  19. 1563
    RecordCP 40/1222

    John Isham alias John Isham, citizen and mercer of London / mercer of London, appears by attorney in Common Pleas.

  20. 1564
    Secondary

    Date: 6 April 1564 (will); proved 3 November 1568.

  21. 1565
    RecordCP 40/1268

    John Isham and Henry Isham, citizens and mercers of London, by Hugh Charnock, sue in Common Pleas.

  22. 1565
    RecordCP 40/1268

    John Isham, citizen and mercer of London, alias Master John Isham of the City of London mercer, by Hugh Charnock attorney, sues in debt.

  23. 1565
    RecordCP 40/1269

    John Isham and Henry Isham, citizens and mercers of London, bring several debt pleas; John also alone as civis et mercerus London.

  24. 1565
    RecordCP 40/1297

    John Watt sued by John Isham and Henry Isham, citizens and mercers of London, for £30 on a bond.

  25. 1565
    RecordE 159/356

    Exchequer memoranda naming Johannes Isham de London Mercer with Valentine Pigot of Loughton.

  26. 1565
    RecordE 159/363

    Memorandum touching John Isham of the parish of St Antholin in Candlewick Street ward, London, and Henry Isham of St Olave, London, mercer, before the Barons.

  27. 1565
    Index
  28. 1566
    RecordCP 40/1273

    Defendant summoned to answer John Isham, citizen and mercer of London (English aliases in the enrolment).

  29. 1566
    Index
  30. 1568
    RecordCP 40/1288

    John Isham late of London alias John Isham citizen and mercer of London summoned to answer in Common Pleas.

  31. 1569
    RecordE 159/359

    Exchequer recognizance/process naming John Isham of London, mercer, with William Mathew and Valentine Pigot.

  32. 1569
    RecordKB 27/1245

    King's Bench process to distrain John Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire.

  33. 1571
    RecordE 368/382

    Exchequer enrolment reciting property late of or granted by John Isham, citizen and mercer of London.

  34. 1573
    RecordCP 40/1344

    John Isham, esquire, alias John Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire, esquire, appears by attorney.

  35. 1574
    RecordCP 40/1349

    Adjacent membrane: answer John Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire, esquire.

  36. 1574
    RecordCP 40/1349

    Process to produce defendants to answer John Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire, esquire, for a money debt.

  37. 1575
    RecordCP 40/1363

    Robert Maller/Sakeryd of Litchborough summoned to answer John Isham, esquire, of Lamport, Northamptonshire.

  38. 1575
    RecordCP 40/1364

    Jury matter between John Isham, esquire, alias John Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire, esquire, and others.

  39. 1586
    RecordCP 40/1619

    Process concerning executors of the testament of John Isham late of Lamport, Northamptonshire, esquire.

  40. 1587
    RecordCP 40/1582

    Common Pleas enrolment still naming John Isham in mercer/London context, c.1587 (late career / estate process — verify aliases on the image).

  41. 1594
    Index
  42. 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. …

  43. 1782
    Index

    This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.

  44. 1782
    Index

    This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.

  45. 1782
    Index
  46. 1782
    Index
  47. 1863
    Index