b.abt. 1515 Leicester, England
m.1536 Margareta Kingston
b.1517 Leicester, England
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b.abt.1537 Leicester, England
m.1569 Maria Laughton
b.1541 Leicester, England
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b.1577 Leicester, England
m.abt.1600 Leicester, England, Elizabeth ______
b.1581 Leicester, England
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Ralph Farnum--merchant tailor in London.
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b.Aug. 25, 1601 Leicester, England
bapt.Aug. 30, 1601 at St. Peter's Church in Cornhill, London, England
d.Andover or Ipswich, MA
m.Alice __________; Alice m.(2)June 18, 1648 Soloman Martin
b.c1610 Andover, MA
d.Feb. 9, 1652 Andover, MA
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NOTE: From email from edith.bartley@worldnet.att.net 11/27/97: "There has been a lot of confusion as the date that Ralph and family left England. There was more than one ship in 1635 named the James. Ralph was not on the April ship, he was the ship of the same name which sailed in the summer. Hotten has it right. The passengers were certified as eligible to leave England on July 13, 1635, and the ship would have left soon after, depending on the winds and whatever. I think they arrived in Boston in September, but I don't have that documented. Planters of the Commonwealth by Charles Edward Banks states that the James sailed for New England the latter part of July and arrived in Boston the last week in September. Included in the passenger lists are Ralph Farnham, age 32, barber, destination Ipswich; Mrs. Alice Farnham, 28; Mary Farnham, 7; Thomas Farnham, 4; and Ralph Farnham, 2.
Also on the same ship was Solomon Martin, age 16, shipwright, destination Gloucester. I have assumed this is the same Solomon Martin who later married Alice Farnham after they both were widowed. She would have been about twelve years older than he. Is this a correct assumption?"
They settled in Ipswich where Ralph became the first town crier.
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b.Aug. 4, 1633 St.Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, England, son of Ralph Farnham
d.Jan. 8,1692 Andover, MA
m.Oct. 26, 1658 at Andover, MA Elizabeth Holt dau. of Nicholas Holt
b.March 30, 1632 Newbury, MA
d.Oct. 14, 1710 Andover, MA
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NOTE: Ralph II died just before the witch trials commended and his sons Ralph III and John were summoned as witnesses.-- per Russell C. Farnham
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b.June 1, 1662 Andover, MA son of Ralph Farnham and Elizabeth Holt
d.Jan. 3, 1737 Andover, MA
m.Oct. 9, 1685 Sarah Stickney Sterling
b.May 4, 1669 Haverhill, MA
d.April 12/3, 1732 Andover, MA
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b.May 25, 1689 Andover, MA, s/o Ralph Farnham and Sarah Sterling
d.abt.1759 York, ME
m.Dec. 25, 1712 Elizabeth Austin, d/o Capt. Matthew Austin of York, ME
b.abt.1689 Wells, ME
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NOTES: Moved from Andover, MA to York, ME.
York County Court lists David Farnham PLT for Ejectment 1731, 1 Boston MA index #602234 Vol 9 p.3, box 41 file 3. Jonathan Farnham DEF Debt 1751, 4 York index #601659 vol14, p.331, box 124 file 67.
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b.Aug. 4, 1719 York, ME; s/o Ralph Farnham and Elizabeth Austin
d.Nov. 11, 1757 in Service
m.Mar. 31, 1739 York, ME Dorothy Webber; d/o Benjamin Webber and Mehitable Allen
b.Feb. 11, 1719/20 York, ME
d.1794 Brooksville, ME as wife of John Grindle
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b.Mar. 1, 1755 York, ME, son of Matthew Farnham and Dorothy Webber
d.July 20, 1821 Brooksville, ME
m.Martha Basteen
b.Aug. 17, 1758 Wells, ME d.June 2, 1835 Brooksville, ME
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NOTE: Grace Limeburner in "Stories of Brooksville" lists Joseph b.Oct. 23, 1792, but omits Simeon as children of Matthew and Martha.
Matthew served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Capt. Nathaniel Fales's Co., Col. Samuel McCobb's Regt., Aug. 1, 1779-Aug. 15, 1779 as part of the Penobscot Expedition.
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b.Aug. 13, 1790, son of Matthew Varnum and Martha Basteen
d.Oct. 15, 1869 Brooksville, ME
m.(1)Eleanor Varnum d/o Gershom and Dolley (Moore) Varnum
m.(2)int.Dec. 10, 1830 Elsie (Tapley) Lymburner, dau. of Peletiah Tapley and Sally Stover, and widow of John Lymburner
b.Aug. 25, 1799 d.Nov. 5, 1878
CHILDREN of Gersham and Eleanor included (all born in Booksville):
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NOTE:from a 2002 email from Lloyd E. Shelleman, his g-grandson, quoted section from his grandfather Alton Townsend.--"When shipbuilding went down my grandfather Farnham [Benjamin] went up to Aroostook and took up a lot of wildland for a farm. I have understood that he walked up and back a couple of times, it was about 150 miles from Castine, and a good part of the way through the woods. His first lot of land was near Presque Isle and is now (1955) known as the Hayden Farm. He hadn't cleared away land but built a log cabin on it and was working away hewing timber, as he was an expert axman, and when he came home he found his cabin burned down. Then he went back to Castine to work in the shipyard again. The later he went back again and took up another lot in the town of Easton, and lived there until he died at the age of 86." List of Gersham children and dates from Bevery Farnham Henry, sent in same email from Lloyd.
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