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Marilyn,
In 1997 I wrote the Mercers' Company in London for any information they might have on Edmund Beauchamp. They searched their registers and confirmed that "EDMUND BEAUCHAMPE, son of John Beauchampe, Citizen and Salter, was apprenticed to John Dogget, Mercer and Merchant Adventurer on 19 March 1646/7 and was admitted to the freedom of the Company on 9 May 1656." Am convinced that this Edmund moved on to Maryland, but don't have the exact proof.
For some time I've been convinced that Edmund and Edward are one and the same. The 1633/4 Visitation of London names Edmund, not Edward. Alice Freeman's will names Edmund not Edward and John's will, written in 1653, names Edward not Edmund. You don't see both names in any document that I have seen. A book called "Searching for your Beauchamp Ancestors" in Salt Lake City mentions that Edward Beauchamp's name appears as Edmund in various documents, though the author doesn't say which documents those might be. Although I can't explain away the 1625 Sussex christening, I'm convinced Edward (Edmund) christened in 1631 at St. Swithin's in the correct one.
For one thing if Edmund was born in 1625 he would have been about 21 when his apprenticeship with John Doggett began. This would have been highly unusual. The Mercers' Co. says it was customary for 12 or 13 year olds to be apprenticed, though there was no hard and fast rule. A 1631 birth would have made him 15 when he started his apprenticeship, which seems more likely.
I think you have the birth order of the children right, though I had earlier thought that son John was born in 1616. With Alice being christened in June 1617 that seems unlikely though since the Freeman-Beauchamp marriage was in 12/1615.
This same son John must have died before John's 1653(55) will, as you said. He is an hard fellow to find. Apparently was still living in 1639 as he is one of the grantees in a deed In the W. Sussex R.O. The deed is to "Steyning" and is from Edmund Freeman of London, gent., et al to (among several others) John Beauchamp junr., son and heir of John Beauchamp of London, merchant. It is dated 14 Jun 1639. So it would seem he died between 1639-1653.
Anyway please keep posting. You seem to have put a great deal of thought into all this.
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