Derbyshire (England) -- Antiquities; Derbyshire (England) -- History
Meanwhile, a younger branch of the family, founded by Thomas Foljambe,
second son of the first Sir Godfrey, by Avena, his wife, settled at
Walton, near Chesterfield, through the marriage of this Thomas with
Margaret, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Loudham, of
Walton. Sir John Loudham gained the Walton estate, in the parish
of Chesterfield, by marriage with Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir
Robert Bretton.
Thomas, son and heir of Thomas Foljambe, of Walton, and Margaret
(Loudham), his wife, became heir male of the family in 1448, on the
death, as has been already stated, of Roger Foljambe, of Tideswell.
Though still landowners in that parish, the family ceased from that
time to be residents at Tideswell; for in 1451, this Thomas, then
aged forty, inherited further estates on the death of his uncle, and
thenceforth the Derbyshire home of the family was at Walton. The
Tideswell property was eventually sold by Sir Francis Foljambe, Bart.,
who died in 1640.
We now leave both Tideswell and Bakewell in the search for Foljambe
monuments, and go to one of the south chapels of the great church
of Chesterfield, which was the burial place of the family for more
than two centuries. In this chapel of the south aisle of the quire,
long known as the Foljambe chapel, there used to be a brass to Thomas
Foljambe, who was the first of the family to acquire Walton. There were
also brasses to his son, Thomas Foljambe, of Walton, who married Jane,
daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Ashton; and also to his son, a third
Thomas Foljambe, who died childless in 1468. But these three brasses
disappeared in the seventeenth century.
Among the Osberton muniments are letters testimonial from the
commissary of the Bishop of Lichfield, dated 27th May, 1469, granting
to Henry Foljambe, of Walton, and John Foljambe, administration of the
goods of Thomas Foljambe, of Walton, deceased, in the estate, the same
having been appraised by James Hyton, dean of Scarsdale, and others,
and proclamations made at mass in Chesterfield church.
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