Ancestral Trails 2016 » Charles BARHAM (1626-1683)

Personal data Charles BARHAM 

• He was born in the year 1626 in East Hall, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent.Source 5
• Title: Captain
• Emigrated December 1663, To Virginia aboard the "John &, Ambrose".
• (Arrival) in the year 1661 in Virginia.Source 6
• (Arrival) in the year 1654 in Virginia.Source 1
• (Arrival) in the year 1668 in Virginia.Source 7
• He died in the year 1683 in Merchants Hundred, Surrey County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, he was 57 years old.Source 2
• A child of Robert BARHAM and Katherine FILMER

Household of Charles BARHAM

He is married to Elizabeth RIDLEY.

They got married on February 2, 1665 at Merchants Hundred, Surrey County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, he was 39 years old.Sources 4, 5

Notes about Charles BARHAM

1629 named in grandfather Sir EDWARD FILMER'S will December 5, 1629 in which he was left 40 shillings.

1638 named in grandmother ELIZABETH FILMER'S will March 16, 1638, left 40 shilllings.

1653 Surry Co., Va. Bk1 pg 42- CHARLES BARHAM witness with Thomas Culmer, Sack Brewster to bond of Robinson and Dorthy Kew to Alexander Mabrick- December 1, 1653.

1654 CAPTAIN CHARLES BARHAM to America - friends of the King not popular in England 1654 A Roll of Arms Boston #457; Register of the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry pgs 31 and 69 - Harleian Society London the visitation of Kent, 1574 and 1592 part 1 1922; 1530 part 1 - Armiger CAPTAIN CHARLES BARHAM - Arms: Argent, a fess gules between three bears passant savle muzzled or - crest, A stork among bulrushes proper.

19 Aug 1663 - By Sir EDWARD FILMER, by direction of CHARLES BARHAM, brother and heir of Edward Barham, esq. decd., who was son and heir of Robert Barham late of Bocton Monchelsey, co. Kent, and MICHAEL GOULD, esq. and SUSAN his wife, daughter of the said Robert Barham and RICHARD BARHAM, gent., brother of the said Charles Barham, to BENJAMIN HENSHAWE, citizen and embroyderer of London, of a messuage or farm called Maxfeild in Gestling and Westfeild containing 300 ac. then or late in the occupation of Moses Purple under the yearly rent of £90

1663 Charles came to Hog Island, in Virginia, in the James River (across river from Jamestown, 1st settlement) February 22, 1663, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Captain of horse in expedition against the Indians, Justice of the Peace, A Capt. in Virginia Militia.

1670 Surry Co., Va. bk1 pg 378 - " At the house of Capt. George Watkins, Capt. Lawrence Baker, MR CHARLES BARHAM, Mr Robert Spenser, being a cort affilated did examine Jane alias Jannet Davis, servant, unto said Watkins supposed to be with child. One month before Christmas last, one John Clarke who lives at Mr Newsom's came to her in the killing or quartering house of Mr. Watkins 2 or 3 hours at night and lye with her and enjoyed her by carnal knowing her body. At least 4 times since lain with her and said John Clarke is father of ye child." September 27, 1671.
BIOGRAPHY from Bob Parsons (www.barham-kent.org.uk)

It is known that Charles Barham came to Virginia in March 1653. He was evidently a “kinsman” who accompanied his uncle, Henry Filmer (the brother of Catherine Filmer) who was returning to Virginia with his family. Henry Filmer, unmarried at the time, first came to Virginia around 1636 - 1640 and served in the Army of Occupation, becoming a Burgess for James City County in 1642 and 1643. Sometime after he returned to England where he married Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) and fathered two children. Henry Filmer had decided to return to Virginia because in March of 1653 he, his wife, son and daughter, an unnamed kinsman (apparently Charles), and others embarked on the "John and Ambrose" at Gravesend for the long journey to the Colonies. The trip to Virginia was covered in a letter to a friend in England and is among a collection of correspondence between Henry Filmer and his nephew, Robert Filmer, and other friends in England. It is known that Henry Filmer paid his way to Virginia and, since Charles Barham was not named as a “headright” in any land records, it appears that he also paid his own way.

In 1661 when he was a vestryman at Lawnes Creek Parish Church he was called "Mr. Charles Barham" and, in 1673, when he was the High Sheriff of Surry County, he was called "Captain Charles Barham". It is also known that he served as a Justice of the County and as Captain of Horse in the County Militia. In February of 1663 he bought a 300 acre farm on Hog Island from the sisters of a deceased John Medmore and it appears that was his primary residence in Surry County. In June,1680, Charles Barham was on the tithe list in Surry County for the last time. Later that year he and his family moved to Martin's Hundred, across the James River in James City County, where he bought four hundred and sixty three acres of land from a John Hayman. In July, 1682, he prepared his will and in late 1683 he died. There is no record of his place of burial nor has a grave site ever been found.

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