When Sir Robert Dunham was born in 1430, in Devon, England, his father, Sir Gregory Dunham, was 48 and his mother, Elizabeth Marguage, was 45. He married Margaret Stafford before 1450, in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 3 June 1463, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, at the age of 33.
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Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Dunham (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire). Most are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in the Domesday Book as Duneham and this too serves as a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna. Dunham is often difficult to tell apart from Downham .
History: John Dunham (1590–1668) was a Puritan linen weaver who came to Plymouth, MA, via Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1633. He had many prominent descendants.
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