Sir
James
Foljambe
Born in Walton, Derbyshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Godfrey Foljambe
and Katharine (Leeke) Foljambe
Brother of
John Foljambe, Bennett (Foljambe) Dunham, Catherine (Foljambe) Nevile, Godfrey Foljambe, George Foljambe and Anne (Foljambe) Lowe
Husband of
Alice (FitzWilliam) Foljambe
— married
1515 in Walton, Derbyshire, England
Husband of
Constance (Littleton) Foljambe
— married
1540 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Godfrey Foljambe, Frances (Foljambe) FitzWilliam, Cecily (Foljambe) Greenhalgh, George Foljambe, James Foljambe, Mary (Foljambe) Fearne and Francis Foljambe
Died
at age 47
in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
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| Created 15 Apr 2014
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Sir James Foljambe was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
Biography
Born at Walton, Thursday before Feast of Epiphany 1510.
Sheriff of Derbyshire 1556.
Research Notes
Since the feast of the Epiphany is January 6th and he was born the Thursday before according to calendars for 1510, I guess, he'd have been born on December 29th, 1510.
Sources
- Dransfield, John Ness. A History of the Parish of Penistone (James H. Wood, The Don Press, Penistone, 1906) Page 3
- "In 1558, sir James Foljambe, of Walton, and Godfrey Foljambe his son and heir apparent, granted to Edward Littleton and William Wolstonholme, the manors of Peniston, Water-hall, Heley-hall, Hoyland Swein, and Newton-upon-Derwent, to the use of himself for life, remainder to Francis his younger son, remainder to Godfrey Foljambe."
- Johnston, Nathaniel: Foljambe (1701), pt. 8, in Coll. Top. et Gen., Vol. 2 (1835), p. 68.
- Dugdale, William, Sir. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions (1899) Page 190
- Maddison, A.R (ed): Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. 1, Harleian Soc. 50 (1902), p. 362.
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