. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. igree of the Barhams of Teston(which was evidently the source of the information obligingly communicated by William Courthope, Esq.,Rouge Croix to Mr. Lower), John Berham, the secondson of Henry Berham, Dominus de Berham Teston etSissinghurst, by Elizabeth Colepeper of Oxenhoath, isset down as the founder of those branches of the familywhich settled at Wadhurst, Maidstone and It seems quite clear, however, from theCourt Rolls and Rental of Bivelham Manor and other 1 , Vol. II.
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. igree of the Barhams of Teston(which was evidently the source of the information obligingly communicated by William Courthope, Esq.,Rouge Croix to Mr. Lower), John Berham, the secondson of Henry Berham, Dominus de Berham Teston etSissinghurst, by Elizabeth Colepeper of Oxenhoath, isset down as the founder of those branches of the familywhich settled at Wadhurst, Maidstone and It seems quite clear, however, from theCourt Rolls and Rental of Bivelham Manor and other 1 , Vol. II. (1849), p. 218. 2 I have searched in vain for any contemporary evidence of this Fitz Ursetradition, which appears to have originated in a typically Elizabethan flourish, byRobert Glover, Somerset Herald, at the head of the pedigree of John Berham ofBerham, recorded at the Visitation of Kent in 1574. 3 The John Barham who built Shoesmiths (will proved 1640) was the great-grandson of the first John Berham of Buttes (will proved 1555). 4 Philipot MSS., Heralds College; Kent, XXVI., f. THE BARHAMS OF SHOESMITHS IN WADHURST. Ill contemporary records, that the grandfather of NicholasBarham of Maidstone (the famous Queens Serjeant ofElizabeths reign) was not John Berham, the second sonof Henry of Sissinghurst (as stated by Philipot), butNicholas Berham, senior, of Brownes in Wadhurst,whose younger son, John Berham u Iron - maker purchased the estate of Woodlande and Buttes, circa1533, and was the undoubted ancestor of the Barhams ofButtes and of Shoesmiths. But although the old herald-historian has obviouslygone very far astray, in his hap-hazard affiliation of theWadhurst Barhams to the parent stock at Teston, it doesnot necessarily follow that he had no foundation for hisevident belief that they were a cadet branch of thatancient Kentish family. In other words, Philipot mayhave been quite correct in deriving the Barhams ofWadhurst and Maidstone from a younger son of theTeston h
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