Lewis Latham

d. 1655 · Elstow, Bedfordshire → the court of Charles I

Died 1655

Children include Frances

Of Elstow in Bedfordshire, and of a cadet branch of the Lathams of Lancashire, whose arms he bore. He was falconer to Richard Berrick, and then under falconer to Charles, Prince of Wales. When that prince came to the throne as Charles I he kept his falconers on, and in 1627 he promoted Lewis Latham to the office of serjeant falconer. It appears he held it until he died in 1655, which is to say through the whole of his master's reign, the civil war and the king's execution.

His daughter Frances was baptised in the parish of Kempston in the same county on 15 February 1609/10. She married a London perfumer, was widowed at twenty six with four small children, married again to Jeremiah Clarke and crossed to Rhode Island, and is remembered there as the mother of governors. Among the things she is said to have taken with her out of England was a portrait of her father, thought to be the work of Sir Peter Lely, which two and a half centuries later was still in the hands of one of her descendants in Philadelphia.

Children

Frances Latham (1609-1677)

Sources

Edward Chester Dunbar, died 2 October 1930 at West Point, Hancock, Illinois; born 27 April 1885 at "Spillwell, Ill."; buried 5 October 1930 at Augusta. Parents James Dunbar and Mary L. Printess. Wife Georgia Dunbar.

the will of Lewis Latham of Elstow, gentleman, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register Aylett, dated 6 May 1653 and proved 1 September 1655, quoted in full in three separate printed accounts that agree; the parish register of Elstow for his burial; the Bedfordshire parish registers of Bletsoe, Cardington, Kempston and Elstow for the children; the Calendar of State Papers for the warrants of 15 July 1625 and 18 August 1627; John Osborne Austin in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, out of Bedfordshire Notes and Queries volume i part x; and Anne Borden Tracy, An Historic Strain of Blood in America: Frances Latham, Mother of Governors (1908)

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