Person:John Dunham (22)

"Sir John Dunham's property in Kirklington and Edingley, some of which was held under the Archbishop of York, consisted of thirty messuages, seven cottages, three hundred acres of land, two hundred acres of meadow, one hundred acres of pasture, forty acres of wood, and he held in other parts of Nottinghamshire, under Sir Edmund Burgh, a number of messuages, three hundred acres of land near Scrooby, and also a meadow and woodland.

"Sir John Dunham, Sir John Digby and William De Roos were trustees of the estate of Margaret De Roos, relict of Humphrey De Roos, who had inherited a large tract of land in Lexington, popularly known as Laxton, in Nottinghamshire. Scrooby was settled by a colony from Laxton, and our Lexington in Massachusetts was settled by natives from old Lexington, hence its name. Both places are of extreme historical interest. To this day [1907] the earthworks and foundations of the demesne of the Everlinghams, and other great lords of Laxton are carefully preserved. King John especially loved Laxton. He granted a charter for Sherwood Forest to Kaufe De Caux, a son of Steven and Maria De Caux. The last of this family was a single woman who died about one hundred and fifty years ago. A collateral branch was De Roos. Humphrey De Roos having been a lawful heir, after his death his wife succeeded him in possession of the property, of which Sir John Dunham was a trustee."

References

• Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham Genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669, and his descendants, Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 1907

Links

• Ancestors of Daniel Tyler

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestral File of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA.

2. ↑ The information on this person derived from the account by I.W. Dunham of the English Dunham's has been generally discredited and considered to be substantially inaccurate. Especially unlikely is the purported connection of this family to Deacon John Dunham who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.