Isham of PytchleyA documentary genealogy

Generation XI

Dorcas Mira Isham

1587–1670

Life

Dorcas Isham was born about 1587 at Mundon, Essex.? Her first husband, Robert Foster, died in 1622, leaving her a widow with small children.? She is not the Isham who married Sir Robert Foster of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, in 1604.?

As Dorcas Foster, widow, she married Bartholomew Hoskins at St Dunstan's church, Stepney, Middlesex, on 3 July 1628; the register describes her as a widow with several small children.1,2 Hoskins, an ancient planter, had been in Virginia by 1616 and kept homes in both Virginia and England; the couple made their home in Elizabeth City, Virginia.?

In 1641 Dorcas Hoskins, wife of Bartholomew Hoskins then in Virginia, petitioned the House of Lords on her husband's behalf.3 She died in 1670 at Elizabeth City, Virginia.?

  1. Dorcas Foster, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
  2. Dorcas Foster, "England, Middlesex, Parish Registers, 1539-1988"
  3. Petition to the House of Lords

? marks 5 statements for which no attached source was found.

Life sketch as written on the FamilySearch Family Tree. Footnotes link each statement to the attached source that supports it; they were matched by machine against the source summaries and should be read as a guide, not a verification.

Records

  1. 1619
    Index
  2. 1628
    Index
  3. 1628
    Index
  4. 1628
    Index
  5. 1628
    Index
  6. 1641
    Secondary

    "[1641] -- Petition of Dorcas Hoskins, wife of Bartholomew Hoskins, in the behalf of her husband, now in Virginia, that all proceedings in a suit commenced by John Carter and Joane, his wife, against him, may be stayed."