The entry for \u2018Vermuyden, Cornelius\u2019 in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58 by Albert Frederick Pollard states that Sir Cornelius Vermuyden had a daughter, Elizabeth who married Sir Thomas Peneystone under the name of Elizabeth Fairmedow. This is not correct and is part of the \u2018Fairmedow legend\u2019 propounded when it was noticed over two centuries later that a \u2018Sir Cornelius Pharmedo\u2019 was naturalised in 1633 by the Scots parliament (Acta Parl. Scot. v. 58). It was suggested that this was Sir Cornelius Vermuyden with an anglicized form of the name Vermuyden. It was actually a completely different man – Sir Cornelius Fairmedow, whose surname was spelled in many ways.<\/p>\n
There is a separate entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for Sir Cornelius Fairmedow under \u2018Fermedo, Sir Cornelius (c.1600\u20131638)\u2019 by S. P. Cerasano. He was a playwright and a gentleman pensioner who had been knighted on 25 September 1628 at Windsor. Sir Cornelius Vermuyden was knighted some months later at Whitehall on 6 January 1628\/9. The two men were actually living in London during the same period but Sir Cornelius Fairmedow died in 1638 while Sir Cornelius Vermuyden lived for almost another forty years.<\/p>\n
The Elizabeth Fairmedow who married Sir Thomas Penyston (1626 \u2013 1674) 2nd Baronet of Leigh, was born about 1630 and baptised on 12 July 1630 at St Stephen, Coleman Street, London, and was the daughter of Sir Cornelius Fairmedow (\u20131638) and his wife Dionysia Stonhouse.<\/p>\n
Because of the later confusing of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden with Sir Cornelius Fairmedow, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also states that \u201cIn his old age Vermuyden seems to have married a second wife, Dionysia Stonhouse.\u201d However Dionysia Stonhouse, the mother of Elizabeth Fairmedow, was the wife of Sir Cornelius Fairmedow and not the wife of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden.<\/p>\n
In his 1953 book \u2018Vermuyden and the Fens: a study of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and the Great Level\u2019, Lawrence Ernest Harris debunks the \u2018Fairmedow legend\u2019 and describes how it arose. He give details of the Vermuyden family and also states that the \u201cregister of the church of St. Margaret,Westminster, contains the record of the burial of “Sr. Cornels Vermooden’ on 15th October 1677\u201d.<\/p>\n
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