Rev. William Wilson

Abt 1542 - 1615  (~ 73 years)

• 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 | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW
  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

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• 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.