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| Title | Stock Image A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 4 | |
| Short Title | A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain | |
| Author | John Burke | |
| Call Number | (ISBN: 9781143433740) | |
| Source ID | S2 | |
| Photos | | WICKHAM, OF HORSINGTON WICKHAM, OF HORSINGTON. WICKHAM, JAMES ANTHONY, esq. of North Hill House, Frome, Somenetshire, lieutenant-colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry cavalry, 6. in 1768, succeeded his father, 1791, m. in '■*7\ 1800, Marianne, daughter and heir of Hill Dawe, esq. of Bridge water, and by her, who died in 1834, has issuĞ, James-whalley-dawe-thomas, captain in the North Somerset yeomanry cavalry, who m. in 1834, Lucy Matilda, daughter of William Leader, esq. Francis-Dawe, barrister-at-law. Hill-Dawe, M.A. in holy orders. Edmund-Dawe, M.A. in holy orders, m. in 1838, Emma, only child of Archdale Palmer, of Cheam Park, Surrey. Mary-Agnes, m. in 1827, to Colonel William Fawcdt, 14th regiment of foot, and has issue. Caroline, d. unm. Susan-Ann. [graphic] Uineage. This family is supposed to be descended from Johu Wycomb, of Bristol, who represented that city in parliament, 1346. Several of its members, who spelt their names Wicomb, Wickham, and Wykehara indifferently, anciently filled the office of sheriff of Bristol, and Theobald Wickham was high sheriff for Somerset in 1393. Wikeham, m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Sylver, who in the year 1463, purchased of Sir Theobald Gorge, houses and lands in Horsington and South Cheriton, which had belonged to Thomas Tragin, who held them of William de Newmarch, or de Novo Mercatu, as written in the original deed still extant, and to whose ancestor they were granted by William the Conqueror. John Wykehah, who in 1536, possessed lands in Milborn Port, was the issue of this marriage. He married Cecilia, who was living at Horsington in 1561, and had a son, James Wickham, who wedded Margaret Servington. and died in 1576, seised of the rectory of Charlton Horethorne. His widow survived many years. He left inter alios, Christopher, of Horsington. James, of the Middle Temple, died in 1586, t.p. Anthony. The third son, Anthony Wickham, of Horsington, was, as well as his wife Catherine, living in 1612, and had with several other children, |