Markham Family ZCollector

1000 - Yes, date unknown

• Born	1000
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I3411	markhamchest
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Markham ZCollector
  Family ID	F468	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sketches		Sketch: John Markham comes to New York John Markham first appeared in America, in the state of New York, in 1732. He was probably in his mid-twenties when he was appointed Lieutenent in the Company of Alexander Colden of Orange county New York . . PDF
  		Sketch: A Wife for John Markham Despite a diligent search, I have never found an original document or significant historical evidence of the wife of John Markham. In my own branch of the Markham family it has been readily accepted that her name was Catherine Mathews. PDF
  		Sketch: John Markham moves on to Virginia - Where is the Evidence? Through many years of research I have held tenaciously to the idea that the John Markham who appears in the records of Orange county New York through the 1730’s and 1740’s, is the same John Markham who surfaces in the records of Chesterfield county Virginia just after 1750. PDF
  		Sketch: John Markham in Virginia Not long after his arrival in Chesterfield county Virginia, John Markham bought himself a sizeable piece of property – 770 acres for a price of 200 English pounds . . John Markham was past forty years of age when he arrived in Virginia. He may have been fast approaching fifty. He lived in his new home for almost twenty years. PDF
  		Sketch: The Question of a Second Marriage for John Markham There has long been a question in my mind as to whether Catherine Mathews Markham could have been the mother of all of John Markham’s children . . The argument in favor of a second wife for John Markham finds its strength in the evidence that he had three children, between 1750-1760, when Catherine Mathews Markham over age forty-five . . PDF
  		Sketch: Death Comes to John Markham John Markham wrote his Will on the 20th of October in the year 1770. It was proved in the Chesterfield County Virginia Court on the 1st of February 1771 . . Coupling John Markham’s Will with other documents related to the settlement of his estate, we recognize that John Markham was a man of comfortable means . . PDF
  		Sketch: The Scattering of John Markham’s Children This sketch tells the story, in brief, of the movement of John Markham’s children and grandchildren. Most of his children married and remained in Virginia for another generation. But, as the nineteenth century dawned western movement began. PDF