Thomas Fairclough

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Weston, Hertfordshire, England

Family/Spouse: Millicent Barr. Millicent died before 23 Sep 1563; was buried on 23 Sep 1563 in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Allen on 30 Jul 1582 in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England. Thomas (son of John Allen and Elizabeth Alabaster) was born about 1557 in of Goldington, Bedfordshire, England; died between 5 Jan 1635 and 14 Apr 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and one of DK's three.

Jane married Rev. Peter Bulkeley on 12 Apr 1613 in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England. Peter (son of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born on 31 Jan 1583 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England; died on 9 Mar 1659 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Compton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arriving in 1634, he was the first of the extensive Bulkeley family to come to New England.

Matriculated pensioner from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, Easter 1629, he studied with the Rev. Cotton in New England while boarding at his house. He was ordained in Marshfield in 1643. After fifteen years as the minister there, he was installed as his father's successor at Concord in 1659, and remained there for 53 years.

He is said to have been disabled in some manner ("lame and of a feeble constitution"). Of his preaching style, Grindall Reynolds had this to say in 1896:

One production of Mr. Bulkeley has escaped the tooth of time, -- his sermon delivered after the return of Captain Thomas Wheeler from Brookfield fight. It was a time to stir a man's soul. The whole Colony was convulsed. Every frontier settlement and every lonely farmhouse was in peril. Two of his parishioners had been slain. Two more came home so shattered that they lingered only a few months. The lot of these might any hour be the lot of his hearers. You read the sermon through from text to conclusion. There is not one throb of pathos in it. You cannot find an eloquent line, hardly an impressive sentence. It is a maze of Inquisitions and Instructions, of Applications and Uses, of Doctrines and Reasons, of Motives and Improvements, wherein the mind wanders and is lost. How could a tender human heart help breaking through the meshes of formality? And how was it possible for men, of rude speech possibly, but of strong and hot sympathies, to admire or approve such stiff and measured utterance?

With so little to guide it is not possible to speak confidently. Still this is certain. The younger Bulkeley has not left behind the impression of power which his father did. Apparently he had not his vigorous personality, his culture, or his great heart. Mather calls him "the worthy son" of a worthy sire. Clearly he was that. An honest, faithful, and devout man. But with all his real excellence one who did not rise much above mediocrity.

[From A Collection of Historical and Other Papers, Concord, Massachusetts, 1896.]

Family/Spouse: Lucian. Lucian died after 28 Jan 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned several times in Pepys’s diaries.

From Wikipedia (accessed 1 Sep 2020):

Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet […,] also spelt Aleyn or Alleyn, was an English politician and grocer.

He was the son of William Aleyn and his wife Elizabeth Compton, daughter of William Compton. Allen was alderman of Cheap Ward from 1652 until 1660 and subsequently of Aldgate Ward until 1679. He then represented Bridge Without until 1683 and again from 1689 until his death a year later. Allen was appointed Sheriff of London in 1654 and Lord Mayor of London in 1659. He is remembered as the Lord Mayor who welcomed King Charles II of England into the City of London on 29 May 1660 after his exile, regarded by many as the pivotal episode in the Restoration of the monarchy. Allen was knighted on the king’s visit and two weeks later, on 14 June, he was created a baronet, of London, in the County of Middlesex. In 1673, he was admitted to Gray’s Inn and in 1676, he became Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.

Around 1648, he married Elizabeth Birch, and had by her a son. Allen died in 1690 and was buried in Totteridge. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Thomas (1648–1730), who married Elizabeth Angell but had no children. On his death the baronetcy became extinct.

Thomas married Elizabeth Birch before 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]