Person:Thomas Dunham (2)

There are several speculative accounts of his marriage and children, but they are all contradicted by the factual evidence and it is likely that he was never married. In particular, he could not have married Martha Knott as stated by Savage and the Dunham geneology, as she married Thomas Tobye and had several children. Nor was he the Rev. Thomas Denham of Rye, NY. See Mrs. Barclay's article in the American Genealogist for an extensive discussion of this.

References

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• Barclay, Florence. Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass., The American Genealogist 30:143-155.
• Dunham, Isaac Watson. Dunham Genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669, and his descendants, Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 1907
• Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986
• Ward, Robert Leigh. The English Origin and First Marriage of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, The American Genealogist 71:130-133.

Links

• History of the Dunham-Donham Family in America

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Barclay, Mrs. John E. Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass. The American Genealogist. (July 1954)
   p. 148.
2.   Dunham Genealogy
   p. 10, # III.

   The information and family described in this account have been shown to be incorrect.