1. Abraham¹ TOULMIN reference * (#13) was born 1580.

He married Mary WILTON ????. (Mary WILTON reference =*) (Mary WILTON is #57.) Mary became the mother of Abraham TOULMIN 1630. Daughter of William [& Esther (Flood,26-7)] Wilton of Bishops Lavington, Wilts (Burke). Now known as West Lavington, 9 km S of Devizes (81 km from Chard). Cussans gives the same details for Mary wife of Abraham *132: probably through confusion. ME90 relates William to Wm Wilton, minstrel to Richard II. Note John Talman of Bishops Lavington, will 1653 (PRO PROB11/227), witnessed Richard Talman and James Towman (brothers or nephews of Abraham?) See also App.K.

At 50 years of age Abraham became the father of Abraham TOULMIN 1630. Very little is known about our earliest believed ancestor except that he was a surgeon. Burke’s Landed Gentry (1952 and other years) says that he came to London from Chard, in Somerset, in the reign of King James I. He was born in 1580, and married Mary Wilton. Chard is a small West Country town near Taunton, and there are several Toulmins who are known to have lived in the area. Research in the local records has revealed that a lot of information exists concerning two other Toulmins but none has been found about our earliest ancestor, although the will of a John Talman, of Bishops Lavington was witnessed by Richard Talman and James Towman. Given the known inaccurate spelling of the names on many historic records, these could possibly have been either brothers or nephews of Abraham.

Abraham TOULMIN and Mary WILTON had the following child:

+ 2 i. Abraham² TOULMIN was born 1630.

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