The Baronetcy of Foljambe of Walton was created in the Baronetage of England on 24 July 1622 for Francis Foljambe of Walton Hall, Walton, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who was later Member of Parliament for Pontefract in 1626 and High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1633.
The family seat at Walton Hall was sold in 1633 in favour of Aldwarke, near Rotherham, Yorkshire
The Baronetcy was extinct on his death.
Foljambe came from a well established Derbyshire family whose residence was at Walton Hall, Chesterfield in Derbyshire. His father was Francis Foljambe, Esq. of Aldwarke.
Sir Francis was created a baronet on 24 July 1622 by James I. He was known for reducing the family estates by his over-indulgence and extravagance. The family chronicler Dr Nathaniel Johnston said that he "was a person of great generousness, but of so profuse a temper, and hospitality to excess, that what by reason of the great jointure of the three... ladies, and the contentions about the estate and the less regarding of his interest by reason of his having no issue male, he sold Walton and most of his Derbyshire lands, and much of his Yorkshire lands, and entangled others, that reduced that estate which was so great... to £1000 per annum." [1]
He became High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1633, but he had to sell the family residence in the same year. He died at Bath on 17 December 1640. What was left of his estates was passed on to Peter Foljambe of Steveton (1599-1669), a distant cousin.[2]
Foljambe married twice, firstly to Elizabeth Wray (the daughter of Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire). They had a daughter and heiress who was baptized at Chesterfield on 2 January 1627. She firstly married her cousin, Sir Christopher Wray, 4th Baronet, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire, and then married John Troutbeck, Esq.
Foljambe's second wife was Elizabeth Reresby (daughter of Sir George Reresby, of Thribergh).[3]
His last wife went on to marry Edward Horner, of Wells and had a daughter who married Sir Robert Martyn, of Suffolk; and then married William Monson, Viscount Castlemaine, and had a daughter, Elizabeth who married Sir Philip Hungate, Bart.; and then married Sir Adam Felton, of Playford, Suffolk, Knt. She died Boxing day 1695.