'Needham5'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Nedham of Jamaica, Nedham of Mount Olive

                               
Sir Robert Needham or Nedham of Pool Park (a 1630)
m1. Mary Hartop (dau/heir of John Hartop of Surrey)
1. Robert Nedham (d 03.1688)
  m. Mary Brabazon (dau of Edward, 2nd Earl of Meath)
  A. Nicholas Nedham (a 1688) "whose line failed"
2. George Nedham of St. Thomas in the Vale & St. Catherine's, Jamaica
m1. Mary Byam (dau of William Byam (President of the Council of Antigua) by Dorothy, dau of Francis Knollys of Stamford, son of Richard (brother of William, 1st Earl of Banbury))
  A. Robert Nedham of St. Thomas in the Vale & St. Catherine's, Jamaica (d 1738)
m. Elizabeth Shirley (dau of William Shirley of Jamaica, son of Thomas of Preston & brother of Sir Anthony of Preson)
  i. Robert Nedham of Howberry (Oxfordshire), Morne Park (co. Down) & Waresley Parl (Huntingdonshire) (d 1762, MP)
  m. (21.05.1733) Catherine Pitt (dau of Robert Pitt of Boconnoe, sister of William, 1st Earl of Chatham)
  a. William Nedham of Morne Park (dsp 1806, MP)
  b. Harriett Nedham
  m. Thomas Trollope Browne of Gretford & Besthorpe
  (1) Mary Browne (b c1769, dsp 17.09.1839)
  m. (29.08.1793) George (Fermor), 3rd Earl of Pomfret (dsp 1830)
  c.+ other issue - George (dsp 12.1767), Robert (d unm)
  ii. Henry Nedham in Jamaica (dsp)
  iii. Shirley Nedham
  m1. Matthew Concannon (Attorney General of Jamaica)
  m2. Sir Henry Hamilton Ireland
  B. William Nedham of Mount Olive, St. Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica (b 1668-9, d 01.07.1746, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Chief Justice of Jamaica, 3rd son)
  m. Olivia Hampson (dau/heir of Oliver Hampson of Mount Olive)
  i. Hampson Nedham of Mount Olive (b 1708, d 04.1752)
  m. (06.01.1728) Martha Dubber (dau of John Dubber of Witney (Oxfordshire))
  a. William Dandy Nedham of Mount Olive (b 23.09.1730, d 1811)
  m1. (04.06.1760, sp) Mary Morant (d 1768, dau of John Morant, sister of Edward of Brockenhurst, widow of Vere Hicks of Jamaica)
  m2. (07.04.1769) Eleanor Aikenhead (d 12.01.1791, dau of Archibald Aikenhead of Stirling Castle (Jamaica))
  (1) William Nedham of Mount Olive (b 18.03.1770, d 13.02.1844, Major General, MP for Athenry) had issue
  m1. Lucinda Strode (dsp, dau of George Strode of Wookey, relict of Capt. Skinner)
  m2. Marianne Baker (dau of Rev. Aaron A. Baker of Marksbury & Burnett)
  (2) John Nedham (b 07.01.21774, rector of Oumby (Lincolnshire), 3rd son)
  m. (27.08.1798) Elizabeth Lack
  (A) Lucinda Nedham
  m. Edward John Lack ("of the Board of Trade")
(B)+ other issue (d unm) - William (b 27.07.1799, d 10.12.1824), Francis (b 04.09.1804, d 01.02.1843, captain), Robert (b 09.03.1813, d 1838)
  (3)+ other issue - Robert (b 19.11.1772, dsp 1790, RN), He nry (b/d 1777), Olivia (d infant)
  ii.+ other issue (dsp) - Robert (b 09.09.10702, d 06.03.1717), George (b 15.09..1703, d 27.09.1717), William (b 09.07.1710, d 1711)
  C. Elizabeth Grace Nedham (bpt 12.01.1680, d 1718)
  m. John Ellis of Jamaica (Colonel)
  D.+ other issue (dsp) - Hender, George (d infant), Henry, Edward Winter
  m2. Mary Modiford (dsp 1690, dau of Sir Thomas Modiford, Governor of Jamaica)
3. Anne Nedham (dsp)
m2. Jane (widow of John Worsfield of London)
4. Frances Nedham
  m. _ Badens
5. Jane Nedham
  m. Charles Middleton (brother of Sir Thomas, Bart)
6.+ other issue - Mary, Eleanor, Amphilis

Main source(s): BLG1853 ('Nedham of Jamaica', in supplement)
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