When Ralph Farnham I was born about 1603, in England, his father, Henry Farnham, was 36 and his mother, Mary, was 22. He married Alice about 1626, in Leicestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died before 18 June 1648, at the age of 45, and was buried in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.