In 1644, he married Mary Killam (died 1660), whom her son Thomas described as "a Woman that truly feared God, and served him in her Day and Generation.
[2] Fox, who had suffered violent assaults in Tickhill and Doncaster, preached for several hours under a walnut tree in Balby in 1652 to a large crowd.
[5] During Aldham's lifetime, the Friends grew from a small group of northern religious separatists into a national movement.
According to Catie Gill, author of his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "His political and religious ideas were sometimes quite theatrically expressed.
A parliamentarian sympathizer, he nevertheless once tore his hat into shreds when he was granted an audience with Oliver Cromwell, indicating, it seems, the certain belief that the protector would soon be torn from power."