James Calthorpe of East Barsham

Sir James Calthorpe (1604 – 19 April 1652) of East Barsham Norfolk, was a Sheriff of Norfolk in 1643.^[1][2]

Family

Around 1627 Calthorpe married firstly Mary (c.1612–1640), daughter of William Fermor and Anne, daughter of Robert Brooke. All their children died before she did.^[3][4]

Calthorpe married secondly Katherine (1616-1677),^[5] daughter of Edward Lewknor (died 1618) and Mary Neville.^[6] They had a son Christopher Calthorpe (died 1718), (who became a Knight of the Bath and married Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Spring); and two daughters Elizabeth (who did not marry) and Ann (who married Sir Thomas Le Strang).^[4]

Notes

1. ↑ Faithorne 1642.
2. ↑ L'Estrange, Aubrey & Collet 1839, p. xvii.
3. ↑ Blomefield & Parkin 1807, pp. 63–64.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Booth 1781, pp. 7–8.
5. ↑ Moore, Crawley & Norwich Castle Museum 1992, p. 88.
6. ↑ Lodge 1842, p. ix.

References

• Blomefield, Francis; Parkin, Charles (1807), An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Gallow and Brothercross. Blofield. Clackclose (2 ed.), W. Miller, p. 63–64
• Faithorne, William (1642), Vera Effigies Jacobi Calthorpe de East Basham in Comitatu Norfolcia Armigeri
• L'Estrange, Sir Nicholas; Aubrey, John; Collet, John (1839), Thoms, William John, ed., Anecdotes and traditions: illustrative of early English history and literature, derived from ms. sources, Issue 5 of Works of the Camden Society, Camden society, p. xvii
• Lodge, Edmund (1842), The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility (8th ed.), Saunders, p. ix
• Moore, Andrew W.; Crawley, Charlotte; Norwich Castle Museum (1992), Family & friends: a regional survey of British portraiture, HMSO, p. 88, ISBN 9780117015067
• Unknown (1781), "Hundred of Gallow", The History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk: Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marshland, and Gallow 5, M Booth, pp. 7–8