Daniel Markham (1600)

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THIS DANIEL MARKHAM OF COTHAM EXISTS IN THOROTON'S ANTIQUITIES OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (1677), AND IT IS NOT FULLY KNOWN WHAT BECAME OF HIM, AND HIGHLY UNLIKELY HE IS, OR THE FATHER OF DANIEL MARKHAM, LUDIMAGISTER. SEE: WHO IS DANIEL MARKHAM.

MARKHAM MEMORIALS, BOOK I, VOL. I, CHAPTER XII, THIRD SON OF SIR ROBERT MARKHAM (LAST POSSESSOR OF COTHAM), WHO CONTINUED THE LINE - DANIEL.^[1]

DANIEL MARKHAM, the third son of Sir Robert Markham by Anne Warburton was born in about 1600. His effigy appears third on his mother's tomb at Cotham, and his name is recorded at the Herald's College.¹ He entered into commercial pursuits, and is believed to have been settled at Norwich² or Lynn during some part of his life. All that is known of him was derived from the recollections of his grandson, Major William Markham, as related to his sons. It has not been ascertained whom Daniel Markham married. The marriage was in 1643 or 1644, when parish registers were very carelessly kept. The name of his wife has hitherto eluded all the searches that have been made. She bore him a son who received the same name.³ His father bound young Daniel apprentice to a merchant in London. But he was a youth of a high and proud spirit, and could not endure the worsted nightcap worn by the apprentices of those times, nor submit himself to the performance of menial services imposed upon apprentices by their masters. So he quarrelled with his father, who would never see him again, and went off to sea, as a volunteer under the Duke of York.⁴

The time and place of the death of the elder Daniel have not yet been ascertained, but his death took place before 1669.⁵ Daniel Markham, only son of Daniel the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham and Anne Warburton, was born in about 1645. After serving with some distinction as a volunteer under the Duke of York, he received a commission in the army. On being disbanded, in Ireland, in 1686, he resided in the neighbourhood of Kilkenny, and appears to have kept a school there for some time with Dr. Andrewes, a Westminster scholar. He married a daughter of Captain Fennel of Cappagh by Frances, daughter of General Fleetwood, not by Bridget Cromwell but by his first wife.⁶ There were portraits, at Becca, of Captain Fennel and of General Fleetwood, in oval frames.⁷ Daniel Markham ended his days at the home of his wife's relations, in Ireland. Daniel Markham had four children by his wife, the daughter of Captain Fennel of Cappagh:

1. William, the father of the Archbishop of York. See Book IV. Chap. I.
2. Enoch, an artist who was brought up under Jervas, the pupil of Kneller and principal painter to George II. He never rose above mediocrity. He could draw and that was all.⁸ He was a dealer in pictures, borrowing money from his elder brother William and never repaying him. For these bad debts Major W. Markham received two pictures by Carlo Dolce, afterwards at Becca. Enoch had two sons:
 1. Enoch, whom he was bringing up as a painter. But his cousin William (the future Archbishop) thought he discovered talent in him, entered him as a student at Christ Church, and paid all expenses. He secretly married a cutler's daughter, and left Oxford £200 in debt. His cousin paid his debts and procured for him the head mastership of Oakham School. He died childless in 1769. He had also been Vicar of Easton Mauduit in 1752.⁹
 2. Thomas was an artist, but in a very moderate style. He distressed his uncle William by borrowing money which he never repaid. He made a disreputable marriage and, late in life, enlisted in the E.I.C.S., dying on the passage out. He left a son,
  1. George, who was befriended by his cousin, the Archbishop. He was at Westminster and at Christ Church, where he had a studentship, being maintained at both places by his cousin. He became a Doctor of Divinity, and held the livings of Tattenhall and Carlton in Craven, 1779. He had tedious lawsuits with Quakers who refused to pay tithes. There is a pamphlet at Morland (reply to Dr. Markham's defence, 1797) relating to a lawsuit between this Rev. Dr. George Markham and nine Quakers, who were sent to York gaol for not paying tithes. In 1782 he summoned the Quakers who refused to pay tithes. At Quarter Sessions at Skipton the Justices thought the demand excessive, but said that if he would reduce it, they would grant warrants. He declined, and served the Quakers with an Exchequer writ in 1786. The suit was opposed on a false plea of modus. This plea was withdrawn after several years, and in 1795 a decree was obtained against the Quakers, who were sent to York gaol for £308 and costs £180. They then published an attack on Dr. Markham entitled 'The Prisoner's Defence.' He replied in a pamphlet called 'More Truth for the Seekers,' to which they replied in an 'Answer,' &c. Their complaint was that the Vicar had unnecessarily and rigorously forced them into the Court of Exchequer, instead of again going before the Magistrates. They were released when the amount had been obtained by sale of their goods. Dr. George Markham died unmarried. There was a letter at Becca from Archdeacon Robert Markham to his nephew William, about the right of succession to Dr. George's property.
3. Matthew was in business at Cork. He left two daughters unprovided for. Their uncle Enoch brought them to England, paid for their education, and gave them £500 each as marriage portions.
 1. Margaret, married twice, but had no children.
 2. Elizabeth, made a low marriage.
4. Elizabeth was married to a Mr. Combe. Their son was appointed a lieutenant in the 112th Regiment by Colonel Enoch Markham. William Markham Combe was befriended by the Archbishop, who got him a lieutenancy in the Marines. He was a major 1810, lieut.-colonel August 12, 1819, and died in 1826.

¹ MS. Vincent's Notts, No. 117, pp. 122-3. (Copy signed J. Pulman, 23 Sept. 1837.) In the Herald's College.
² There was a family named Markall at Norwich, which changed the name to Markham at about this time, and the name Daniel occurs among its members; but it has been ascertained that there was no connection.
³ Daniel's grandson, Major William Markham, lost all the family papers in a shipwreck.
⁴ MS. formerly at Becca. Notes by the Dean of York. In one of the songs written by Major William Markham in a pocket-book at Becca these occur:
⁵ The date of his half-brother Philip's death. Thoroton says that all his brothers died before him.
⁶ General Fleetwood's first wife was Frances Smith, and very little is known of her children. In his will he mentions his son Smith Fleetwood and his daughter Carter. His daughter Frances, named after her mother, who married Captain Fennel, is not mentioned in his will. But he does not provide for any of his children in his will-they were all grown up and provided for. The will is dated June 10, 1689. General Fleetwood in the Pedigree at the Herald's College is said to have had no children by his second wife, Bridget Cromwell, the widow of Ireton. Colonel Chester (letter, November 2, 1880), however, found that Fleetwood had children by his second wife, but they died young.
⁷ These portraits were in Archbishop Markham's house in South Audley Street, before they were taken to Becca. That of Captain Fennel is by John Riley (b. 1646, d. 1691.
⁸ Enoch Markham painted a bad picture of his nephew, the Archbishop, when he was at Oxford, in 'snuff-coloured dittos' and a college gown. It was at South Audley Street, but has since disappeared.
⁹ The Rev. Enoch Markham was Vicar of Easton Mauduit in 1752, Vicar of Newnham cum Badly, 1753, presented by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. He died in 1769, and was buried in Newnham Church, but the tombstone has since been destroyed. (Baker, Hist. Of N. Hants, i. p. 257).^[2]

References

1. ↑ Markham Memorials, Book I, Vol. I, Ch. XII, Pg. 81-84.
2. ↑ Baker, Hist. Of N. Hants, i. p. 257.