The plague or "the Black Death" occurred over hundreds of years and were results of infested rats coming over on boats returning from the Orient. The plagues swept over Europe and England, Derby was not immune. According to church records, " the plague began in Derby October 1592, in the house of William Sowter, bookseller." William Sowter is the brother of Thomas Sowter, the father of Thomas and Phillippa, who married William Oldham. Plague struck the town of Derby again in 1636 and I believe that it is no coincidence that William Oldham and his son, Thomas both died from its results that same year. Lancastreshire was afterwards shortened to Lancashire. 

 St. Leonard's Parish 

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1~Matthew Ouldham B: 1330 D:   M:

 1~Richard de Ouldham B: 1356 Werneth, Lancastershire, England D:   , was recorded as Lord of the   Manor of Werneth/Oldham in 1354. His daughter and heiress, Margery Oldham. 

2~Margery Ouldham B: 1384 Werneth, Lancastershire, England D: 1412 M: John de Cudworth B: 1380apx  Werneth, Lancastershire, England D: 1412. From whom descended the Cudworth family of    Werneth Hall who were successive lords of the manor of Werneth Oldham.

     1~John Cudworth 1412-1444 Werneth, Lancastershire, England M:

1~Geoffrey Cudworth 1444-1465

1~John Cudworth 1465-1490

1~Lord Richard Ouldham 1377-1415 M:Ann De Mortimer 1378-1411 

               1~John Oldham 1400-1449 M: Margaret~ 1405-

                  1~Roger Oldham B: 1424 Lancashire England D: 1472 M: 1440 Margery Rogers 1425-1519

                  3~Joan Oldham 1426-1519

                  2~John Oldham B: 1430 D: 1449 M: Ann Royal 1430-1461

1~Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter B: 1452 D: 06/25/1519 Exeter, England M: Abigail Wood. see below 

2~John Oldham 1455-1520 M: Abigail Wood Mosley 1460-1529

1~William Oldham 1486-

3~James Oldham 1457-Rev. Bernard Oldham B:    D: 1515 was to leave Manchester in 1467 as keeper for the episcopal park-lands at Wolsingham, belonging to the bishop of Durham, Lawrence Booth, who was himself from the  Manchester region. It appears that Hugh followed his brother James to Durham and was settled  there by 1475 when, in a transfer of property rights in Manchester from James to Hugh, he is  described as 'Clerk of Durham'.He was installed as rector in Crewkerne, Somerset, in around 1495 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, who was the mother of the then reigning king, Henry VII. Bernard became Arch deacon of Cornwall, a post which he held from 1509 to 1515. On 5 April 1515, Bernard was made treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, but he died within a month of taking up the post.

4~Adam Oldham

5~Peter Oldham

6~Elizabeth Oldham B: 1504 D: M: Giles Daubeney, the nephew of the master of the mint.

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2~Hugh Oldham Bishop of Exeter B: 1452 D: 06/25/1519 Exeter, England See more below. M: Abigail Wood. (appointed Bishop on 11/24/1504).

     1~Sir John Oldham (Ouldham) B: 1480 Lancashire, England  D: 09/28/1550 St. Leonard's Parish,         Middleton, Lancashire, England M: 1504 Elizabeth Crompton 1480-1558

1~Sir John T. Oldham (Houldham/Ouldham/Odum) I B: 1505 Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England D: 1560 Middleton, Lancashire, UK  M: 1528 Johanna Cook B: 1508 Kirkburton, Yorkshire, England D: 1540 

1~John T. Oldham II B: 1530 Lancashire, England D: 07/23/1578 Derbyshire, UK M: 01/31/1563 Isabell Hall B: 1526 D: 1578. "John of All Saints Parish". During the Middle Ages, Oldham was recorded as a territory under the control of minor ruling families and barons. In the 13th century, Oldham was documented as a manor held from the Crown by a family surnamed Oldham, whose seat was at Werneth Hall. During the reign of Henry III, Alwardus de Aldholme is referred to as holding the land of Vernet (Werneth). The territory of Oldham was ruled by Alwardus's family from Werneth Hall, which still stands just north of Werneth; Werneth, Oldham, Lancastershire, England. Achard de Aldeham is registered in the Feet of Fines of Kent in 1218.

Werneth Hall

All Saints Parish, Derby, Derbyshire, England

1~William Oldham B: 06/26/1568 All Saints Parish, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. D: 06/26/1636 All Saints Parish, Derby, Derbyshire, UK. M: 11/17/1588 Philippa Sowter in Derby, Derbyshire, UK. B: 07/06/1568 D: 1616, daughter of Thomas Sowter & Alice Turnar M:2) 1605 Newport, Rhode Island to Lucretia Brewster   

  1~Thomas Oldham, Sr. B: 1590 Derby, Derbyshire, UK D: 1636 Derby, Derbyshire,          UK. M: 1620 Elizabeth Rhodes B:    D: 1631 during child birth with Joseph

1~Anna Oldham B: 1621 D: 1721

2~John Oldham B: 1621 All Saint's Parish, Derby, Derbyshire, England D: 1698 Northumberland County, Virgina M: 1642 Abigail Mosley, 1 child M:2) 1648 ~ M:3) 1654 Mary Smith

1~John Oldham   B: 1642 Northumberland, Virginia D: 1709 Northumberland, Virginia M;

2~Mary Oldham  B: 1656 D:

3~Smuel Oldham B: 1657 D:

3~Thomas Oldham B: All Saint's Parish, Derby, Derbyshire, England 1624 D: 1712 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachussets

4~Sarah Oldham B: 1630 D:

5~Joseph Oldham B:1631 D:

2~Mary Elizabeth Oldham B: 1592 christened 2/24/1594 Mary Oldham, as a young maiden came over from England on the Fortune in Nov. 1621. D:

3~Jacobus Oldham B: 1597 christened 6/12/1597 England D: 1598 England

4~John Walter "Mad Jack" Oldham/Ouldam B: 04/09/1592 Lancashire/London, UK D: 07/20/1636 Block Island, Narragasett Bay, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. M: Jane Bissell B: 1595 D:     In 1623, Captain John Oldham, his sister Lucretia, and his brother Thomas's pregnant wife, Elizabeth Rhodes, boarded the Anne and set sail to Plymouth, Massachussetts, and John was an early Puritan settler in Massachusetts. In 1624, Rev. John Lyford came over to America, and was welcomed at first, but soon disgruntled members of the group who wanted to worship as they had in England, gravitated to him. Lyford gave them encouragement and met with them in secret. Oldham was a supporter of Lyford, and the two of them were looked upon by Pilgrim leader William Bradford as trying to destroy the colony. Oldham and Lyford wrote letters back to England, disparaging the Pilgrim authorities. Bradford intercepted some of these letters and read them, which greatly angered Oldham. Oldham then refused to stand guard, and argued with the Pilgrims' military advisor, Miles Standish. Standish, a short man, had a reputation among the Pilgrims as being argumentative and having a hot temper. In 1624 John Oldham, along with the Rev. Lyford and 70 others were banished from the colony because they were outspoken of the local govt. and wanted to freely practice their religion, which was the same as the Church of England. Drawing his knife on Standish, Oldham angrily denounced him as a "Rascall! Beggarly rascal!" Lyford and Oldham were put on trial for "plotting against them and disturbing their peace, both in respects of their civil and church state." As a result, they were banished from Plymouth, an extreme punishment in this wild frontier. 1633-1634 John Oldham and 10 others (including Captain Robert Seeley) set out along the old Conneticut path to establish Wethersfield, the first English settlement on the Conneticut Riverohn Oldham was considered the first Englishman to conduct explorations along the Conneticut River. After his trip north, there was a severe outbreak of smallpox. Many natives, including the Pequot, held him responsible for the death of thousands from Maine to New York, even though Henry Hudson and his followers had begun spreading the disease into New England from Canada. Oldham represented Watertown (Middlesex, MA) in the colonies' first general court assembly in 1634.  He was a captain, merchant, and Indian trader. John grew rich in coastal trade and trading with the Indians. He was the overseer of shot and powder for Massachusetts Bay Colony. Oldham's company granted ten acres in assignment of lands in 1623 presumably for each person in Oldham's family. As a trader, Captain Oldham sailed to Virginia and England, but by 1630 he was back in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He took up residence on an island in the Charles River and was a member of the church at Watertown. He continued in the Indian trade, sailing the coast from Maine to New Amsterdam.

John came to Plymouth in 1623. John returned to England, and he was in England in 1635, and brought back his two nephews, John aged 12, and Thomas, aged 10, at the time they came over from England in the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635, were with him at the time and were held by the Indians as captives, and were given up under the terms of treaty with the Narragansett Indians made afterward. John was murdered in his Shallop, in Narragansett Bay, off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island by Indians, in 1636. His death at the hands of the Indians was one of the causes of the Pequot War of 1636-37. His nephews, John and Thomas then went to live with their Aunt Lucretia in Conneticut. When the boys came of age, they went their separate ways, with John travelling south to Virginia and Thomas staying in New England. 

Plymouth Plantation

1~Christian Oldham 1609 England D: 1660 M: Sarah North 1619 Gloucester, Essex, England D: 1649

2~Margaret Oldham B: 08/13/1611 D: 

3~Richard Oldham B: 1622 D: 12/09/1655 Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. M:  Martha Eaton Brown B: 1630 Staple, Kent, England D: 1673

1~Samuel Oldham B: 1650 D: 1727  M: Hannah~

2~John Oldham B: 1652  D: 1719  M: 07/22/1675 Abigail Wood

4~John Oldham Jr. B: 02/09/1622 Derby, All Saint's Parish, Derbyshire, England D: 08/23/1698 Northumberland County, Virginia. M: 1642 to Abigail Mosley B: 1628  D:  1708 

5~Thomas Oldham Jr. B: 08/23/1624 D:

6~Joseph Oldham

7~Mary Oldham B: 1621 D: 1695 M: William Bridges

1~John Oldham II B: 1640 Northumberland, Virginia D: 1708 Northumberland Co, VA  M: Mary~  B: 1624 Westmoreland, Virginia D:

2~Thomas Oldham B: 1655 Westmoreland D: 02/16/1756 Chester, Delaware, PA M: Rachel Butcher 1658-1762

1~Col Samuel Oldham 1680-1762

2~John Oldham

3~Thomas Oldham 1696-

3~John Oldham II 1663-1705

4~William Oldham 1665-1756

5~Abigail Oldham 1666-1717

6~James Lawson Oldham Sr 1669-1740

7~Richard William Oldham B: 05/27/1671 St. Stevens, Northumberland County, VA D: 10/20/1731 Northumberland, VA M1: Ann Conway 1676-1776 M2: 1696 Mary McDonald, at St. Steven's Parish to. Mary was born in 1675 D:  6 Children.

1-John Oldham 1698-1753

2~Peter Oldham 1700-1734

3~James Oldham 1707-1753

4~George Oldham 1709-1758

5~Richard William Oldham II B: 1712, Farnham, VA. D: 1785 Stoney Creek, Caswell Cty, NC M: 1732 Elizabeth Bayse B: 1715 in Virginia D: 1785. French and Indian War, under the command of Capt. John Ashby, 2nd Virginia Rangers.

1-Jesse Davis Oldham B: 1733, Prince William County., Virginia D: 04/04/1814, Otter Creek Near Boones borough, Madison County, KY M: 10/21/1757 Elizabeth Simpson B: 1740 Caswell Co. NC D: 1798, daughter of Richard Simpson, Jr. and Mary Kincheloe. Jesse Oldham came to Madison County, Kentucky, in the early part of the year 1775 (Ben M. Angel notes: at the time, the territory of Madison County was part of the colonial Fincastle County in Virginia) with the company of Daniel Boone and Capt. William Twetty, and was with them when attacked by Indians before daybreak, March 25, 1775, in which battle Capt. Twetty was so seriously wounded he died, and Felix Walker was painfully wounded, but recovered. His deposition which was filed in Court states that "Twetty's Fort, or the Little Fort, was built March 26, 1775, about five miles from Richmond (and 122 feet over one mile southwest from Estill's old station in the future Madison County, Kentucky) on a small branch of Taylor's Fork. That it was built the day after the Indian attack before the break of day, upon Col. Boone's and Capt. Twetty's Company, about 100 yards from Boone's Trace, in square form, about 6 or 7 feet high, of logs, as a protection against surprises, or sudden attack of the Indians, was not covered, and the wounded bodies of Capt. William Twetty and his ward, young Felix Walker, were removed into it, and there nursed. Jesse Oldham, after the death and burial of Capt. Twetty, and when young Walker had sufficiently recovered to be moved, went with him to Boonsborough, and about April 6, and he assisted in the building and completion of the Fort at Boonsborough, which work was not completed until June 14, 1775, and he made one of the force of the defenders of the fort against the besieges made by the Indians. Jesse Oldham was one of the men who raised the earliest crops of corn in (the territory of) Madison County, Kentucky. He raised corn in 1775, on Otter Creek, not far from the Boonsborough Fort - of the very first crops raised in the Boonsborough settlement, as shown by deposition, and probably no earlier crops were raised in Kentucky soil by white men. It seems that after coming to Kentucky in the company of Col. Daniel Boone, Jesse Oldham returned to North Carolina and he and one or two of his sons enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in the North Carolina line. he and his son, and his brothers Capt. John Oldham, Richard, Conway, James, and Moses, and Major George Oldham, the latter of Lee's Legion, were all in the Battle of Guilford Court House.  



1~Sarah Sally Oldham 1760- M: 1806 Zere Steven Burton

2~Amy  Oldham B: 1761 D: 1814 M: 05/19/1784 Samuel Burton Jr

3~Jesse  Oldham Jr B: 1762  D 1845

4~Mary Ann  Oldham  B: 1763 D: 1813 M: 08/15/1839 Richard I. DeJarnett in Madison Co., KY

4~Richard  Oldham B: 1763 D: 06/17/1836 Madison Cty, KY  M1: 10/20/1786 Ursleya Duke Williams 1764-1802, daughter of Henry Williams and Elizabeth M2: 1803 Patsy Reid 1783-1860.

1~Patsey Oldham 1787

2~Elizabeth Oldham 1788

3~Goodman Oldham B: 09/20/1789 D: 1835

4~Nancy Oldham B: 12/27/1791 D: 1858 M: William Harris

5~Ursuly Oldham B: 07/15/1802 D: 1880 M: Jackson

6~Milton Oldham 1805-1866

7~Sophronia Oldham 1805-1889 M: Woods

8~Mary Ann Oldham 1818-1893 M: DeJarnatt

9~Richard Baxton Oldham 1823-1903

5~Tyree George Oldham 1768-1851 M: 09/21/1797 Sarah Todd M: Nancy -

6~Frances Frankie Oldham B: 1775 D: 1850 M: 1795 Hezekiah Oldham

7~Anna  Oldham B: 1777 D:   M: 02/04/1790 William Harris, son of Christopher Harris and Agnes McCord

8~Elias  Oldham B: 1763 D:

9~Edith  Oldham B: 1781 D:

10~Nathaniel  Oldham B: 1788 D: 1858 M: 1811 Margaret Peggy Sparks 1790-1814 2 children M2: 1814 Theodocia Sadie Dosha Spence 1798-1860, 7 children.

1~David Oldham 1810-1870

2~Dawson Oldham 1818-1905

3~Dawson Oldham 1818-1905
4~Hiram D Oldham 1824-
5~Emma Oldham 1825-1880
6~Dorinda Oldham 1833-1865
7~Elizabeth Oldham 1834-
8~Mary "Eady" "MA" Oldham 1835-
9~Edith Oldham 1837-

11~John K.  Oldham B: 1766 D:  M: 09/19/1808 Nancy Marshall

2~Judith Hansom Oldham B: 1736 D: 1752 M: Fisher Rice Bennett Sr 1742-1792

3~Conway Oldham B: 1738 Westmoreland County D: 1829 Irvine, Estill, KY.

4~James Oldham B: 1745 VA D: 1830 IN M: Leah Stephens, daughter of Sampson Stephans & Lenore Adams.

1~Moses A. Oldham 1776-1853 M:

1~John Oldham

2~George Oldham

3~Daniel Oldham

2~Stephen Oldham 1774-1824 M: Anna

1~Robert D. Oldham

2~Nancy Oldham

3~William D. Oldham 1783-1854

4~Nancy Oldham 1786 TN D:   M: ~Sewell

5~Sarah Oldham 1791-1872 M: Andrew Jonathan Longley

6~John Oldham

5~Richard Estill Oldham III B: 03/01/1745 in Prince William County, Virginia D: 06/17/1839 in Estill County, KY. M: 1795 Ann Pepper (from the Carolina's) B:  1745 D:  Richard was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, he enlisted in Caswell County,North Carolina in the North Carolina line, in the company of Captain John Oldham, his brother. Richard settled on the Kentucky River, or Red River above the mouth of the latter, which location was included in Estill County, when it was established in 1808. Here he spent the remainder of his life, and from this home he drew the pension for his service in the Revolutionary war.    8 Children

1~Hezekiah Oldham B: 1770 D: 1830's   M: 11/26/1795 to Francis Oldham, his 1st cousin, daughter of his uncle Jesse Oldham and Elizabeth Simpson: settled on Otter Creek.

2~LeAnna Oldham B: 1771 D: 1811

3~Samuel Oldham B: 1775 SC

4~William R. Oldham B:04/23/1777 NC and died 09/26/1849 Madison County, Ky. Married 10/19/1809 to Sallie Patsy Gilbert of Richman: Daughter of Samuel Gilbet & Rhoda J. Wallace. B: 1774 D: 1826   Re-M: 10/30/1826 to Susannah Anderson Moberley  

1~Patsey Oldham B: 10/28/1810 Madison County D: 08/15/1826 AL.  M: 06/02/1856 Ichabod Mobley

2~Wade Hampton Oldham B: 1814

3~Richard Oldham IV B: 12/02/1814 Madison County D: 08/18/1887

4~Ann P. Oldham B: 1809

5~Sallie Ann Oldham B: 1817 Madison County D:  M: 02/13/1845 William Arvine. Made their home on Station Camp Creek, in Estill County, Ky.

6~Minerva Oldham B: 1819

7~Elizabeth G. Oldham B: 11/06/1818 D: 02/14/1886

8~Miranda Oldham B: 1806

9~Mariam Oldham B: 05/01/1822 Madison County, Kentucky. Died 03/17/1858 in Clark County, Kentucky

10~Mildred Milly Oldham B: 1824 Madison County D:   M:  Nathan Williams, Jr (cousin)

5~Elizabeth Oldham B: 1779 D:  M: 02/17/1837 Joel Karr

1~Hezekiah Karr

6~Zerah Oldham B: 02/12/1781 D: 1844 Missouri  M: 12/24/1807 Amelia Collins, daughter of Stephen Collins and Catherine McIntosh B: 10/04/1791.

1~Stephen Collins Oldham B: 11/03/1815 Estill County, KY on a farm near Red River D:1906

7~Edith Ede Oldham 03/15/1781 NC 06/23/1836 KY

8~Amelia 'Milly' Oldham B: 1782 D: 1864 M: Josiah Collins, ordained by the old Baptist Society as a minister of the Gospel. When the great reformation divided the church he went with the reformation and died in that faith. He spent his life in Madison County, Ky. Left the old Baptists in the times of the reformation and went with what is styled the Christian Church.

9~Richard Oldham B: 1786 D: 1858

10~Moses Oldham B: 1789 D: 1867 Montgomery Cty, TN

1~James K. Oldham 

1~Uriah Wright Oldham

2~Andrew Jackson Oldham

3~Harriet Oldham

11~Nancy Oldham B: 1789 SC D:

12~Ann Oldham B: 1791 KY D: 07/23/1851 KY M: 09/14/1809 Joseph Collins B: 1790 D:

6~Daughter Oldham B: 1746 D: 1746  

7~Moses Oldham B: 1750 VA D: 1810 TN M1: Nancy Freeman M2: Mary Rice 1768-1804.  He and several brothers went to North Carolina and received land grants in the 1770's and 1780's. In 1790, living in Caswell County in NC. In the late 1790's or around 1800, he went to Montgomery County, TN. Moses served in the Revolutionary War along with brothers Jesse, Conway, Richard, Captain John, James, and Major George, and, according to an account in "Milber's History and Geneologies of the Oldham, Maupin, Cavanaugh, Woods and Other Families" (page 478) the brothers all fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Married twice, second wife nee' Freeman around 1807-10, with a prenuptial agreement that allowed each to retain separate property for their heirs.

8~Major George Oldham B: 1750, Prince William Co.,Virginia  D: 03/30/1840 Anderson District, SC. M: Susannah Suckey Hensley B:02/07/1754 VA D: 1834 NC, d/o Maxfield Hensley & Martha Snead. 1776, Winter; Volunteer Rev. War, Ensign under Garrett Moore, Caswell Co, NC. In 1807, promoted to First Major Of Caswell Regiment Of Militia.  March 04 1833, appeared for pension deposition Revolutionary War. NC Pension #S21906.

1~Nancy Oldham B: 3/20/1776 D:    M: Isaac Elrod 

2~John Oldham B: 08/03/1778 NC D: 09/15/1832 AL 

3~Martha Snead Oldham B: 05/15/1779 D: 09/01/1849 M: John Harper 

4~George Oldham 02/26/1781 NC D: 1850 M: Henrietta ~ 

5~Mary Polly Oldham B: 03/26/1783 D:    M: Nelson Guthrie 

6~Zilpha Oldham B: 04/03/1785 D: 12/15/1860 SC M: Obediah Merrett 

7~William Oldham B: 01/20/1788 NC D: 07/15/1870 Single man 

8~Thomas Oldham B: 02/17/1792 D: 01/23/1875 SC 

9~Garland Oldham 06/13/1795 D: 1841 M: Nancy~. He was the Cumberland Presbyterian preacher.

9~Capt. William Oldham B: 1753 VA D: 1781 The Falls, KY M: Penelope Pope. William became a Captain in VA, during the Revolutionary War.

10~Elizabeth Oldham B: 1756 VA D: 1854 Williamston, SC M: John Samuel Pepper Sr 1750-1816 

11~Capt John Oldham B: 11/10/1757 VA D:11/17/1831 KY M: 02/26/1783 Annis Rice 1759-1840. In 1777, John became a Captain during the Revolutionary War. He fought at the Battle of Camden, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse.

1~Absalom Oldham Sr B: 05/28/1785 NC D: 02/08/1831 KY M: 05/03/1812 Mary Polly Challis, daughter of John Challis and Milly Rice, 1796-1880. In 1809, Absalom Sr. was appointed the first sheriff of Estill County by Governor Charles Scott, and he was elected to the Kentucky Legislature as a Representative of Estill County.

1~John Challis Oldham 1819-1898 M: Nancy Skinner 1825-1905

1~Rufus Oldham 1846 KY D: 1919 Iowa M: Sarah Frances Knight 1846-1912

1~Curtis Knight Oldham 1881-1956 M: Emma Bunzendahl

1~Glen Curtis Oldham 1910-1960 Petty Officer Second Class of the United States Naval Reserve

2~Absalom Oldham Jr B: 1828 Estill Cty, KY D: 1909 Madison Cty, KY. M: Charlotte~ B: 1861 Estill Cty, KY D: 02/01/1944 Hamilton, Ohio.

1~Arthur Oldham B:
2~Hubert Oldham B:
3~Lucy Oldham     B:
4~Lydia Oldham    B:
5~William Oldham B:
6~Willa Oldham B: 1889
7~Margarette Oldham B: 1892
8~India Oldham  B: 1894
9~Jessie Oldham B: 1898
10~Sally Oldham B: 1902
11~Sanford Oldham B: 1903 D: 1990

2~Hezakiah Oldham 1787-1868

1~William Kavanaugh Oldham 1821–1899

2~Thomas Hezekiah Oldham 1823–1877

3~Hannah Woods Oldham Bush 1828–1885

4~Margaret Kavanaugh Oldham Chenault  1829–1919

5~Charles Kavanaugh Oldham 1834–1899

6~Abner Oldham Sr 1837–1919

6~Sarah Oldham 1718-1769 M: Peter Sidebottom B: 1729 Mottram, Longdendale, Cheshire, England

1~Sgt John Sidebottom 1750-1823 M: Jane Jenny McCarty 1777-1845

2~Charles Sidebottom 1750-1809

3~Joseph Sidebottom 1755-1839

5~Margaret Oldham 1590 apx England D:1667 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

6~Martha Oldham

7~Elizabeth Oldham B: 1594 D:

8~Lucretia Oldham B: 01/14/1600 All Saint's Parish, Derby, UK D: 03/04/1671  Preston, New London, CT  M: 04/10/1624 Jonathan Brewster B: 08/12/1593  Scrooby, Nottinghamshire D: 08/07/1659. In 1610, he accompanied his family to Leiden in Holland, where he married his first wife, and became a Dutch Citizen in 1617, and worked as a "Lintwerker" or ribbon maker in Pieterskerhof, Holland. Jonathan was the son of Mayflower descendant, Pilgrim William Brewster (1566-1644) & Mary Norris (15070-1627), one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. Brewster did not join his family on the Mayflower in 1620, however. He stayed behind in Leiden instead with his wife, who died soon after, and their infant son, who also died. Brewster would have been 27 at the time. Brewster came to America on the ship Fortune in 06/30/1621. On April 10, 1624 in Plymouth, Brewster married Lucretia Oldham, the daughter of William Oldham and Phillipa Sowter. Brewster and Oldham had eight children. He did many jobs: Surveyor, a tradesman, he started a Ferry company and becaFme a lawyer. Was a Military commissioner in the Pequot War in 1637.

1~William Brewster B: 03/09/1625 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts D:   M: Mary~

2~Mary  Brewster  B: 04/16/1627 Plymouth, Massachusetts D: 1691M: John Turner

3~Jonathan Brewster B: 07/17/1629 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts D:

4~Ruth  Brewster B: 10/03/1631 D:  1677  M: ~Pickett

5~Benjamin Brewster, Lt. B:  11/17/1633 D: 09/14/1710

6~Elizabeth  Brewster  B: 05/01/1637 D: 1708 M: ~Christophers

7~Grace Brewster B: 11/01/1639 D: 04/22/1684 M: ~Wetherell

8~Hannah  Brewster B: 11/03/1641 Plymouth, Massachusetts D: 12/11/1711 Groton, New London, CT M: 12/23/1644 Samuel Starr, 1640-1687. In 1670 Samuel tried to establish a ferry at Norwich and received land for it, but he gave it up and forfeited the grant. Hannah's father, Jonathan, had a ferry service many years before. Samuel was appointed county marshall in 1678, and probably held the office till his death. M:2) 1390 James Morgan   II 1643-12/08/1711, son of James Morgan & Margery Hill.

1~Samuel Starr B: 12/11/1665 New London, CT D:  1687

2~Thomas Starr B: 09/27/1668 in New London, New London, CT D: 01/30/ 1711/12 in Groton, New London, CT. M: Mary Morgan: Thomas and Jonathan Starr married sisters, Mary and Elizabeth Morgan, daughters of Capt. James Morgan.

3~Comfort Starr B: 08/06/1671 D: 1672

4~Capt. Jonathan Starr B: 02/23/1673/74 D: 08/26/1747 M: Elizabeth Mogan Starr Adgate

5~Rachel Starr B:  

Brewster Cemetery, Preston, CT

Headstone of Lucretia Oldham Brewster

Headstone of Jonathan Brewster

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Little bit of history footnotes: Even though there is not a concrete connection to the following as of yet: John Cudworth was born about 1384 in Werneth, Lancastershire, England. John married Margery Oldham,  the daughter of Richard Oldham, born apx 1352, Werneth, Lancaster, England. Margery was born about 1384 in Werneth, Lancastershire, England. A Richard de Oldham appears in the Inquisitiones post mortem of Lancashire in 1348. A Robert Oldum is recorded in the Close Rolls of London in 1470. 

1~Matthew Ouldham 1330-

1~Richard Oldham 1352, Werneth, Lancaster, England

1~Margery Oldham B: 1384 D:   M: John Cudworth B: 1390apx in Werneth, Lancastershire, England

1~John Cudworth 1412-

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Bishop Hugh Oldham of Lancashire, is an ancestral relative to the Oldhams of Lancashire. Born in 1452, Hugh was the youngest of six sons of Roger and Margery Oldham. and spent his youth in medieval Manchester. Initially Oldham was educated in the home of Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby – whose wife, Countess Margaret Beaufort, took a keen interest in the education of young boys – and went on to study at Exeter College in Oxford and at Queens' College, Cambridge. Oldham prospered as one of the Countess's protégés, and was appointed Bishop of Exeter in 1504, some time after her son Henry VII's accession to the throne in 1485. Descendancy from Hugh Oldham's family would have to have come through his brothers who were not in the Catholic Church 1465-1520. That would be Adam, James, or Peter, as Hugh, Bernard, William were in the church and Hugh and Bernard would not have had any legitimate descendants. Hugh attended Oxford and Cambridge and later was appointed the Bishop of Exeter by Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. He founded the Manchester Grammer School and Corpus Christi College at Oxford. He is buried in the Exeter Cathedral in the chantry chapel that was built for his tomb. The owl was considered his patronus and his tomb has many carvings of the bird surrounding it. The town of Oldham, named after the family, is signified by the family crest which shows Hugh Oldham's owls. He died in 1519. Roger Oldham, lived in Millgate, Manchester after buying a home from his brother Hugh Oldham in 1485.

A Ralph Oldham is listed in the Coroners' Rolls of Nottinghamshire in 1508. A John Oldham, from Nottinghamshire, was registered as a student at Oxford University in 1610. A recorded marriage of Charles Oldham to Margaret Cohn which took place in St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, in 1746. Hugh Oldham's cousin, Roger Ormeston.

Corpus Christi College, Oxord c1675

 

George Washington Oldham

(1840 - 1914)
Fayette County, Indiana

Wincester Cemetery

St. Stephen's Parish

 

Effigy of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, Oldham Chapel, south aisle, Exeter Cathedral

Hugh Oldham's tomb in Exeter Cathedral

Hugh was born at Oldham, somewhere about the time when the Wars of the Roses began. The Richard Oldham who was Abbot of Chester from 1455 to 1480, and later Bishop of Soder and Man, was, possibly, his father's brother of Roger & Margery Oldham. His own eldest brother, James, had entered the service of one of the several bishops whom another Manchester family, the Booths of Barton-on-Irwell, gave to the fifteenth-century Church. This was Lawrence Booth, Bishop of Durham and Archbishop of York. It was apparently with this brother that the future Bishop of Exeter lived in his later youth, and a transfer of property between the two brothers in 1475 gives us our first date in Hugh Oldham's life. His brother James, is then described as "clerk, of Durham".