Brief Life History of Isham
When Col. Isham Randolph was born on 24 February 1685, in Chesterfield, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Randolph I, was 34 and his mother, Mary Anne Isham, was 25. He married Jane Rogers on 25 July 1717, in England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Virginia, British Colonial America in 1725. He died on 2 November 1742, in Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 57, and was buried in Randolph Family Cemetery, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States.
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- St James Northam Parish Birth, Christening Registry, 1705-1797
- Isham Randolph, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Isham Randolph, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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