Notes for Richard MARSHAM/Katherine BRENT

BIVIN Family Genealogy

Notes for Richard MARSHAM/Katherine BRENT

Mary, wife of Charles BEAVIN, has been given as a daughter of Richard
MARSHAM.

"There seems to have been a close relationship between Mary Beavan and
Richard Marsham whether as his sister, sister-in-law (sister of
Katherine---, his first wife, or sister-in-law to Katherine if the sister
of her husbnad, Charles Beavan), perhaps related to his second wife, Anne
Calvert-Brooke-Brent, or to a husband of his daughters. ... Whatever the
ralationship of Richard Marsham to Mary Beavan, it does not suggest that
of paternity but rather, they seem to have been contemporaries, called
"brother" by Mary Beavan's husband and "my well beloved" (not "my
father") by Mary.
-- Mildred A. O'Brien, "Brent-Marsham-Beavan-Blanford: Myth or Mystery?",
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 36 No. 1, Winter 1995.