[Illustration] The name is local, from Isham in the hundred of
Orlingbury in this county, where an elder branch of the family was
seated soon after the Conquest. Robert Isham, who died in 1424, is
however the first ancestor from whom the pedigree can with certainty
be deduced. He was Escheator of the county of Northampton, and was
of Picheley (a lordship contiguous to Isham) in the first of Henry
V. Lamport was purchased by John Isham, the immediate ancestor of
the present family, fourth son of Sir Euseby Isham, of Picheley,
Knight, in the year 1559. He was an eminent merchant of London.
See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 28.
ARMS.--_Gules, a fess and in chief three piles wavy argent_. This
coat was borne by Robert de Isham in the 2nd of Richard II.
Present Representative, Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet.