Thomas Baynham ('The Wire Drawer') (1581- )
Thomas, my eight times great-grandfather, was born in 1581.
He married a woman named Mary and had three children: Elizabeth in 1634; John in 1636: Thomas, my seven times great-grandfather, in 1639.
Thomas was born in 1581 and was the ‘Thomas Baynham son of Thomas Baynham of Noxon‘ baptised on 6th September in All Saints church at Newland.
Explain ‘The Wire Drawer’ …
He married Mary …
They had three children, all baptised at the church of St. Nicholas in Gloucester:
Elizabeth was baptised on 23rd August 1634; she was entered onto the register as the daughter of ‘Thomas Baineham’.
Sadly Elizabeth did not survive long and was buried at St. Nicholas church on 17th October 1634; she was entered onto the register as ‘Elyzabeth ye daughter of Thomas Bayneam’.
John was baptised on 16th April 1637, as ‘ye sonne of Thomas Baynham’.
My seven times great-grandfather Thomas was baptised on 25th August 1639, as ‘the sonne of Thomas Baynham’.
Acknowledgements:
- Baptism, marriage and burial records – www.ancestry.co.uk and www.familysearch.org
- Genealogy of ‘The Wire Drawer’ – ‘The Life and Times of a Forest Family: the Ap Einion alias Baynham Family’ by Dr A C Baynham