Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rev. William Wilson

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Name William Wilson [1, 2, 3] Prefix Rev. Birth Abt 1542 [4, 5] Gender Male Alternate death Between 12 May 1615 and 27 May 1615 [6] Death 15 May 1615 Windsor, Berkshire, England [5, 7]
Burial St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England [4]
Person ID I15622 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 4 Jan 2024
Father William Wilson, b. of Welbourn, Lincolnshire, England bur. St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Family ID F9577 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Woodhall bur. Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, Kent, England Marriage 19 Jan 1579 St. Mary's, Lambeth, Surrey, England [5]
Children + 1. Mary Wilson d. Bef 26 Jul 1613 + 2. Rev. John Wilson, b. Abt 1591 d. 7 Aug 1667, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
Family ID F9555 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jan 2024
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Notes - Prebendary of St. Paul's and Rochester cathedrals. Rector of Cliffe, Kent. Rector of Cliff-at-Hoo, Kent. In 1584 he became a canon of Windsor, in which office he served alongside his son-in-law the Rev. Thomas Sheafe. He was a chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Grindal, who was his wife's uncle.
In 1883, Canon Scott Robertson called him "a man of deep erudition, a scholar and a courtier...we must suppose him to have been a persona grata in the eyes of Queen Elizabeth."
- Prebendary of St. Paul's and Rochester cathedrals. Rector of Cliffe, Kent. Rector of Cliff-at-Hoo, Kent. In 1584 he became a canon of Windsor, in which office he served alongside his son-in-law the Rev. Thomas Sheafe. He was a chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Grindal, who was his wife's uncle.
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Sources - [S2216] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Sheafe Line." The American Genealogist 22:85, Oct 1945.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
- [S7098] Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 155:3, 2001.
- [S2123] The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin: 1989.
- [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.
- [S2132] Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. I, With the Addition of Genealogical Gleanings in England (New Series) A-Anyon (1907) by Henry F. Waters. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969.
- [S2123] The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin: 1989., date only.
- [S2216] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Sheafe Line." The American Genealogist 22:85, Oct 1945.