♂Robert Chelsham

Robert Chelsham (dates of birth and death unknown) was the father of a son, Robert, baptized at Kingston upon Thames, in Surrey, England, on 18 April 1545. He was probably the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Robert Chelsham (baptized 1545). That son was most likely the Robert Chelsham who became a beer brewer at Kingston, married Mary Adnett there in January 1575/6 and made his will in August 1592. Nothing more is known of the father than his name and his son’s baptism.

Notes

The identification

The baptism and the link come from Robert Battle and Henry B. Hoff’s study of the English ancestry of Rodolphus Elmes in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (2022). Its summary calls the brewer “probably the Robert Chelsham, son of Robert, who was baptized 18 April 1545 in Kingston”. The article names no wife, no other child and no parent for the elder Robert, so the line ends with him.