Dr. Edward Bulkeley

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Dr. Edward Bulkeley

Birth
Shropshire, England
Death
Jan 1621 (aged 80–81)
Odell, Bedford Borough, Bedfordshire, England
Burial
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Ancestor of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Great-great-grandson of Thomas Grosvenor and Isabella Pershale Grosvenor. Son of Thomas Bulkeley, steward of Drayton manor, by his wife Elizabeth Grosvenor, and grandson of William Bulkeley, esquire, of Oakley (in Mucklestone), Staffordshire, by his wife Beatrice Hill. Beatrice was the daughter and heiress of William Hill of Bunsingstall.

Matriculated pensioner from St John's College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1555, admitted Scholar 1555, B.A. 1559/60, admitted Fellow 1560, M.A. 1563, B.D. 1569, and D.D. 1578. Obtained the rectorship of Odell by 1571, was prebend of Chester 1574, prebend of Westminster 1583, prebend of Lichfield 1594, and vicar of St Mary, Shrewsbury 1578-82. Described as a professor of theology, he was admitted in 1580 as a burgess of Shrewsbury. Edward was a moderate Puritan, and resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably due to his age or infirmity. The entry of his burial in the Odell register on Jan. 5, 1620/21 was made by his son Peter, who had succeeded him as rector.

By his wife Olive Irby he was the father of (i) Mary, (ii) Frances, wife of Richard Welby of Moulton, (iii) Judith, (iv) Martha, wife of Abraham Mellowes of Charlestown, Massachusetts, (v) Nathaniel (c.1574-1602), (vi) Deborah, (vii) Dorcas (c.1577-1616), wife of Anthony Ingoldsby, rector of Fishtoft, (viii) Elizabeth (c.1579-1643) of Boston, Massachusetts, wife of Richard Whittingham and Atherton Haugh, (ix) Sarah, wife of Oliver St. John, (x) Paul (c.1581-1610), and (xi) Peter (1583-1659) of Concord, Massachusetts.

Dr. Edward Bulkeley was the maternal grandfather of Chief Justice Oliver St John and his sister Elizabeth St John Whiting. Elizabeth St John was married on August 6, 1629 to the Reverend Samuel Whiting, as his second wife. Other grandchildren by Dr. Bulkeley's daughter Sarah were Dorothy St John (married June 13, 1625 to Richard Westland), Edward St John (baptized July 20, 1606), Judith St John (burial July 18, 1607), and Judith St John (married September 25, 1633 to John Percival).

About Dr. Edward Bulkeley's son Reverend Peter Bulkeley, brother of Sarah Bulkeley St John, and uncle of Sarah's children Chief Justice Oliver St John and Elizabeth St John Whiting):
In 1634, (Peter) Bulkeley sent some associates to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to prepare for his arrival, according to the First Parish of Concord website:
"Rev. Bulkeley had been ousted from his pulpit in Odell, England (where he had succeeded his father, Rev. Edward Bulkeley, in 1609), in 1634 after several warnings from Bishop Laud and the Church of England that he was not following the dictates of King Charles I. He, along with John Jones, knew full well that he would be removed from his pulpit sooner or later, so, being foresighted, he sent his oldest son Edward and a house builder named Thomas Dane to the colonies to build a house for Peter's family. Rev. Bulkeley was a wealthy man, and fortunately for him, he was allowed to bring his money with him when he followed his son to the new world a year later.
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/concord-massachusetts-history/

Edward Bulkeley, D.D.
Pages 51 and 52 "Ancestors of Alden Smith Swan and His Wife Mary Althea Farwell"
Published by Higginson Book Company, 1923.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8A5WAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Edward%20Bulkeley%20&f=false

Thomas Bulkeley and Elizabeth Grosvenor
Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
By Douglas Richardson
https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA418&dq=Thomas+Bulkeley+Elizabeth+Grosvenor&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Bulkeley%20Elizabeth%20Grosvenor&f=false

William Bulkeley and Beatrice Hill
Page 148 "Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Withersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families"
By Henry R. Stiles
Heritage Publishing, 2009.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1wh_62GdoPgC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA148&dq=William+Bulkeley+Beatrice+Hill&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=William%20Bulkeley%20Beatrice%20Hill&f=false

Humphrey Bulkeley of Woore
https://books.google.com/books?id=2k87AAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA5&dq=Humphrey+Bulkeley+of+woore&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Malpas - Peshale Peshall Parshale Parshall Pershale - Grosvenor - Bulkeley
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Volume 6, 1883.
https://books.google.com/books?id=iQAVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Peshale%20&f=false

St. Cuthbert, Donington
https://www.albrightonparishchurch.org.uk/stcuthberts.htm

The Parshall family, A.D. 870-1913 - A Collection of Historical Records and Notes to Accompany the Parshall Pedigree, By Horace Field Parshall, Published by F. Edwards, London, 1915.
https://archive.org/details/parshallfamilyad00pars/page/n7/mode/2up?q=Grosvenor+

https://www.armchairgenealogist.com/mrcr18

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peshale-8

History of the Parshall Family from the Conquest of England by William of Normandy, A.D. 1066, to the Close of the 19th Century
By James Clark Parshall · 1903
https://books.google.com/books?id=allEAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Grosvenor%20&f=false

Other notes and topics
Parents of Margaret Mainwaring Grosvenor, wife of Randolph Grosvenor, are NOT CERTAIN. Many believe Randall Mainwaring was her father. If so, however, Randall Mainwaring's parents are also in fact unknown.

The Cotton family and the Bulkeley family were closely related.
John Cotton's Correspondence: A Census
Sargent Bush, Jr.
Early American Literature
Vol. 24, No. 2 (1989), pp. 91-111 (21 pages)
Published By: University of North Carolina Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25056764

12th Great-grandson of Saher de Quincy, Magna Carta Surety Baron

14th Great-grandson of William the Conqueror, King of England

19th Great-grandson of King Robert I, King of France

20th Great-grandson of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons

22nd Great-grandson of Charlemagne, King of the Franks

Direct Line from William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror
Matilda of Flanders
|
Henry I, King of England
|
Robert of Gloucester
Mabel FitzHamon
|
Maud of Gloucester
Sir Ranulf de Gernons
|
Hugh de Kevelioc
Bertrade de Montfort
|
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
|
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
|
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
|
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
|
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
|
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
|
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret
|
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
|
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
|
Anne Charlton
Randolph Grosvenor (Randall, Randle)
|
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
|
Dr. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
|
Children
Frances Bulkeley
Dorcas Bulkeley
Margaret Bulkeley
Elizabeth Bulkeley
Sarah Bulkeley
Peter Bulkeley
Ancestor of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Great-great-grandson of Thomas Grosvenor and Isabella Pershale Grosvenor. Son of Thomas Bulkeley, steward of Drayton manor, by his wife Elizabeth Grosvenor, and grandson of William Bulkeley, esquire, of Oakley (in Mucklestone), Staffordshire, by his wife Beatrice Hill. Beatrice was the daughter and heiress of William Hill of Bunsingstall.

Matriculated pensioner from St John's College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1555, admitted Scholar 1555, B.A. 1559/60, admitted Fellow 1560, M.A. 1563, B.D. 1569, and D.D. 1578. Obtained the rectorship of Odell by 1571, was prebend of Chester 1574, prebend of Westminster 1583, prebend of Lichfield 1594, and vicar of St Mary, Shrewsbury 1578-82. Described as a professor of theology, he was admitted in 1580 as a burgess of Shrewsbury. Edward was a moderate Puritan, and resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably due to his age or infirmity. The entry of his burial in the Odell register on Jan. 5, 1620/21 was made by his son Peter, who had succeeded him as rector.

By his wife Olive Irby he was the father of (i) Mary, (ii) Frances, wife of Richard Welby of Moulton, (iii) Judith, (iv) Martha, wife of Abraham Mellowes of Charlestown, Massachusetts, (v) Nathaniel (c.1574-1602), (vi) Deborah, (vii) Dorcas (c.1577-1616), wife of Anthony Ingoldsby, rector of Fishtoft, (viii) Elizabeth (c.1579-1643) of Boston, Massachusetts, wife of Richard Whittingham and Atherton Haugh, (ix) Sarah, wife of Oliver St. John, (x) Paul (c.1581-1610), and (xi) Peter (1583-1659) of Concord, Massachusetts.

Dr. Edward Bulkeley was the maternal grandfather of Chief Justice Oliver St John and his sister Elizabeth St John Whiting. Elizabeth St John was married on August 6, 1629 to the Reverend Samuel Whiting, as his second wife. Other grandchildren by Dr. Bulkeley's daughter Sarah were Dorothy St John (married June 13, 1625 to Richard Westland), Edward St John (baptized July 20, 1606), Judith St John (burial July 18, 1607), and Judith St John (married September 25, 1633 to John Percival).

About Dr. Edward Bulkeley's son Reverend Peter Bulkeley, brother of Sarah Bulkeley St John, and uncle of Sarah's children Chief Justice Oliver St John and Elizabeth St John Whiting):
In 1634, (Peter) Bulkeley sent some associates to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to prepare for his arrival, according to the First Parish of Concord website:
"Rev. Bulkeley had been ousted from his pulpit in Odell, England (where he had succeeded his father, Rev. Edward Bulkeley, in 1609), in 1634 after several warnings from Bishop Laud and the Church of England that he was not following the dictates of King Charles I. He, along with John Jones, knew full well that he would be removed from his pulpit sooner or later, so, being foresighted, he sent his oldest son Edward and a house builder named Thomas Dane to the colonies to build a house for Peter's family. Rev. Bulkeley was a wealthy man, and fortunately for him, he was allowed to bring his money with him when he followed his son to the new world a year later.
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/concord-massachusetts-history/

Edward Bulkeley, D.D.
Pages 51 and 52 "Ancestors of Alden Smith Swan and His Wife Mary Althea Farwell"
Published by Higginson Book Company, 1923.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8A5WAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Edward%20Bulkeley%20&f=false

Thomas Bulkeley and Elizabeth Grosvenor
Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
By Douglas Richardson
https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA418&dq=Thomas+Bulkeley+Elizabeth+Grosvenor&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Bulkeley%20Elizabeth%20Grosvenor&f=false

William Bulkeley and Beatrice Hill
Page 148 "Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Withersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families"
By Henry R. Stiles
Heritage Publishing, 2009.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1wh_62GdoPgC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA148&dq=William+Bulkeley+Beatrice+Hill&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=William%20Bulkeley%20Beatrice%20Hill&f=false

Humphrey Bulkeley of Woore
https://books.google.com/books?id=2k87AAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA5&dq=Humphrey+Bulkeley+of+woore&hl=en&source=gb_mobile_entity&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Malpas - Peshale Peshall Parshale Parshall Pershale - Grosvenor - Bulkeley
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Volume 6, 1883.
https://books.google.com/books?id=iQAVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Peshale%20&f=false

St. Cuthbert, Donington
https://www.albrightonparishchurch.org.uk/stcuthberts.htm

The Parshall family, A.D. 870-1913 - A Collection of Historical Records and Notes to Accompany the Parshall Pedigree, By Horace Field Parshall, Published by F. Edwards, London, 1915.
https://archive.org/details/parshallfamilyad00pars/page/n7/mode/2up?q=Grosvenor+

https://www.armchairgenealogist.com/mrcr18

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peshale-8

History of the Parshall Family from the Conquest of England by William of Normandy, A.D. 1066, to the Close of the 19th Century
By James Clark Parshall · 1903
https://books.google.com/books?id=allEAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q=Grosvenor%20&f=false

Other notes and topics
Parents of Margaret Mainwaring Grosvenor, wife of Randolph Grosvenor, are NOT CERTAIN. Many believe Randall Mainwaring was her father. If so, however, Randall Mainwaring's parents are also in fact unknown.

The Cotton family and the Bulkeley family were closely related.
John Cotton's Correspondence: A Census
Sargent Bush, Jr.
Early American Literature
Vol. 24, No. 2 (1989), pp. 91-111 (21 pages)
Published By: University of North Carolina Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25056764

12th Great-grandson of Saher de Quincy, Magna Carta Surety Baron

14th Great-grandson of William the Conqueror, King of England

19th Great-grandson of King Robert I, King of France

20th Great-grandson of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons

22nd Great-grandson of Charlemagne, King of the Franks

Direct Line from William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror
Matilda of Flanders
|
Henry I, King of England
|
Robert of Gloucester
Mabel FitzHamon
|
Maud of Gloucester
Sir Ranulf de Gernons
|
Hugh de Kevelioc
Bertrade de Montfort
|
Mabel of Chester
William d'Aubeney
|
Nichole d'Aubeney
Sir Roger de Somery
|
Maud de Somery
Sir Henry de Erdington
|
Sir Henry de Erdington
Joan de Wolvey
|
Sir Giles de Erdington
Elizabeth de Tolthorpe
|
Margaret de Erdington
Sir Roger Corbet
|
Sir Robert Corbet
Margaret
|
Mary Corbet
Robert Charlton
|
Richard Charlton
Elizabeth Mainwaring
|
Anne Charlton
Randolph Grosvenor (Randall, Randle)
|
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Thomas Bulkeley
|
Dr. Edward Bulkeley
Olive Irby
|
Children
Frances Bulkeley
Dorcas Bulkeley
Margaret Bulkeley
Elizabeth Bulkeley
Sarah Bulkeley
Peter Bulkeley

Gravesite Details

Buried Jan. 5, 1620/21