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Rev. Peter Bulkeley

Male 1583 - 1659  (76 years)


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  • Name Peter Bulkeley 
    Prefix Rev. 
    Birth 31 Jan 1583  Odell, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 9 Mar 1659  Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Siblings 3 siblings 
    Person ID I11366  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 2 Nov 2021 

    Father Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D.,   b. Abt 1540   d. Bef 5 Jan 1621, Odell, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Mother Olive Irby,   b. Abt 1547, of Leighthorpe in Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 10 Mar 1615 (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1566  [1, 3
    Family ID F4087  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jane Allen,   b. Bef 13 Jan 1588   d. Bef 8 Dec 1626 (Age < 38 years) 
    Marriage 12 Apr 1613  Goldington, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Edward Bulkeley,   b. Bef 12 Jun 1614   d. 2 Jan 1696, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 81 years)
    Family ID F12484  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Dec 2018 

    Family 2 Grace Chetwood,   b. Abt 1602, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1669, New London, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Marriage Apr 1635  [1, 3, 4
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Gershom Bulkeley,   b. Jan 1636, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1713, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years)
    Family ID F7614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2020 

  • Notes 
    • One of TSW’s eight proven “gateway ancestors,” one of TWK’s twelve, and one of DK's three.

      Rector of Odell, Bedfordshire. Emigrated to New England in 1635 on the Susan and Ellen. One of the founders of Concord, Massachusetts. American historian Moses Coit Tyler described him as “noted even among Puritans for the superlative stiffness of his Puritanism.”

      Rev. Peter Bulkeley (1583-1659) = Jane Allen (1588-1626)
      Edward Bulkeley (1614-1696) = Lucian
      Peter Bulkeley (1641-1688) = Rebecca Wheeler (1645-1671)
      Rebecca Bulkeley (1681-?) = Jonathan Prescott (1677-1729)
      Dr. Abel Prescott (1718-1805) = Abigail Brigham (1723-1777)
      Lucy Prescott (1757-1792) = Jonathan Fay (1752-1811)
      Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay (1778-1856) = Harriet Howard (1782-1847)
      Samuel Howard Fay (1804-1847) = Susan Montfort Shellman (1808-1887)
      Harriet Eleanor Fay (1829-1924) = James Smith Bush (1825-1889)
      Samuel Prescott Bush (1883-1894) = Flora Sheldon (1872-1920)
      Sen. Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) = Dorothy Wear Walker (1901-1992)
      George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) = Barbara Pierce (1925-2018)
      George Walker Bush (1946- )

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    3. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933.

    4. [S4168] Charles M. Hansen, "The Barons of Wodhull, With Observations on the Ancestry of George Elkington, Emigrant to New Jersey." The Genealogist 7:4, 1987.