Career
Nothing is known of Aldham"s parentage. He farmed successfully at Warmsworth, near Doncaster. Aldham was an early disciple of George Fox, with whom he was instrumental in establishing the Balby meeting.
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.
(A chair in the present Doncaster Meeting House is made from wood from this tree, and a table made from it was sent to America in 1967) Aldham was imprisoned in York in 1652 for speaking in a "steeple-house" (church), and fined 40 shillings for refusing to pay taxes, keeping on his hat, and saying "thou" to the judge, in keeping with the Quaker refusal to recognize ranks among mentor He was imprisoned but released after two-and-a-half years, upon application, it is said, to Cromwell.
He died in Warmsworth in April 1660.