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Notes for MARTIN BARNUM , SIR:
THE FOLLOWING WAS TAKEN FROM NOTES OF CONNIE LOUISE HESTER OOSTING:
Thomas Barnum descended from Stephen and possibly from Sir Walter (B. 1377) with a question whether his father was Martin or Thomas.
Sir Martin (B.1550) was the father of Thomas (b.1625) with the same question about his father.
English Generations ref 2 Barnum An investigation of the English Ancestry of the Barnum family of America justifies the belief that the immigrant ancestor was son or grandson of Sir Martin and Judith Calthorpe Barnum, His mother or grandmother was daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, lord mayor of London, and sir Francis Barnum, knight of Hollingbourne, was either stepbrother or uncle and wife of Francis Bacon (Lord Bacon), great lord chancellor and viscount, was either first or second cousin. The alabaster monument of Sir Martin Barnum, which stands in All Saints Church, Hollingsbourne Hall, England is inscribed "Sacred to the memory of Sir Martin Barnum. Sprung from the old Southampton family of Barnums, who married Ursula, daughter of Robert Rudstone, of Boughton Monshelsey, and had two daughters and one son. On her death he married Judith, the daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had five sons and five daughters. He was a man on every side of gentle birth, most happy in the extreme piety of his life and death alike; on whom God of the boundless riches of his mercy poured (piled upon him) of this world's gifts of nature, grace and honor, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. He died December 12, 1610, at the age of 60 years.