Humphrey Hill

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Court of Hill, Longslow, Shropshire, England

Notes:

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 calls him "Humfridus Hull vulgo Hill de Buntingsdale, married to Agnes, daughter of John Bird and his wife, daughter of David de Malpas".

Family/Spouse: Agnes Bird. Agnes (daughter of John Bird and Katherine de Malpas) was born in Chorlton, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Court of Hill, Longslow, Shropshire, England

Notes:

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 calls him "William Hill de Bloore et Hill".

Family/Spouse: Margaret Barker. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Barker) was born in of Calverhall, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Malpas, Cheshire, England

Family/Spouse: Margaret Wilbraham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) Greene. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a wealthy merchant, and lord mayor of London in 1549-50.

"Perhaps because of [his] determined moralism, which seems to have owed something to pressure from the protestant pulpits, and perhaps because of the coincidence of his mayoralty with a decisive turn in the English Reformation, Hill is often described as the first protestant lord mayor of London, but this tradition seems to date from no earlier than 1795, when a descendant, Sir Rowland Hill, bt, erected an obelisk to his memory in Hawkstone Park, Shropshire. Although he was one of the City's representatives in the first parliament of Mary's reign (October–December 1553), Hill is not named as one of those 'which stood for the trewe religion'. His will gives little indication of fervent protestantism, and there was no celebration of godly values in either the memorial tablet in St Stephen Walbrook or in the inscription on the portrait at Mercers' Hall. His arrangement for the distribution of a dole of 12d. a house through the wards of the City as he lay dying was characteristic of his charity, but also redolent of an older type of piety. His interest in innovative charitable projects and in education may have owed more to the humanist values fashionable in London circles at this time than to protestantism." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Family/Spouse: Alice Bulkeley. Alice was born in of Stanlow, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Bulkeley. William (son of Humphrey Bulkeley and Cecily Moulton) was born in of Woore, Shropshire, England; died on 4 Mar 1571 in Oakley, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Dysher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1515, of Woore, Shropshire, England
• Alternate birth: Between 1515 and 1520

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Grosvenor. Elizabeth (daughter of Randall Grosvenor and Anne Charlton) was born about 1515 in of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Rector of Odell, Bedfordshire.

From The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus (1933):

(Rev.) EDWARD BULKELEY,D.D., second son of Thomas Bulkeley of Woore, Shropshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Randall Grosvenor, was born not far from 1540. He matriculated pensioner from St. John's College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1555; Scholar, 1555; B.A., 1559/60; M.A., 1563; B.D., 1569; D.D.. 1578; Fellow, 1560. He obtained the rectorship of Odell in Bedfordshire, probably in 1571. He "compounded" for the living at Odell, 6 Mar. 1571/2, as is shown by the Bishops' Certificates of the Diocese of Canterbury. This means that he then paid to his superior his first year's salary, as was then the established practice in the English Church. [...]

It is very difficult to learn much of the personal history of a minister who lived in the sixteenth century and who, by the very nature of his calling, did not figure in the political annals of his generation. He was Prebend of Chester, 1574; of Westminster, 1583; of Lichfield, 1594; and was Vicar of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, 1578-82. We know that he was one of the commissioners appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1608 for the 'Levye of Armour' in Bedfordshire among the clergy.

We owe to the late Col. C. E. Banks the following interesting item, from Shrewsbury Corporation Record, Burgess Roll, 1580: Edward Bulkeley of Shrewsbury, professor of theology, son of Thomas, admitted burges and has issue: Nathaniel, aged 6; Mary, aged 13; Frances, aged 12; Judith, aged 10; Martha, aged 8; Deborah, aged 5; Dorcas, aged 3; Elizabeth, aged 1. [...]

Dr. Bulkeley was a moderate Puritan; he resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably because of increasing age, and died at Odell early in Jan. 1620/1. His burial on 5 Jan. 1620/1 was entered in the Odell registers by his son Peter, who had succeeded him as Rector.

Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley (1540-1621) = Olive Irby (1547-1615)
Sarah Bulkeley (1580-1611) = Sir Oliver St. John (1575-1626)
Elizabeth St. John (1604-1677) = Rev. Samuel Whiting (1597-1679)
Elizabeth Whiting (aft 1634-1733) = Rev. Jeremiah Hobart (1630-1715)
Dorothy Hobart (1679-1733) = Daniel Mason (1674-1705)
Jeremiah Mason (1705-1771) = Mary Clark (1705-1799)
Jeremiah Mason m. Elizabeth Fitch
Jeremiah Mason m. Mary Means
Robert Means Mason m. Sarah Ellen Francis
Elizabeth Mason m. Robert Charles Winthrop
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop m. James Grant Forbes
Rosemary Isabel Forbes m. Richard John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (1943- )

Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley (1540-1621) = Olive Irby (1547-1615)
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 m. Susan Shellman
Harriet Eleanor Fay m. James Smith Bush (1825-1889)
Samuel Prescott Bush (1863-1948) m. Flora Sheldon (d. 1920)
Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) m. Dorothy Walker (1901-1992)
George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018)

Edward married Olive Irby about 1566. Olive (daughter of John Irby and Rose Overton) was born about 1547 in of Leighthorpe in Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire, England; died before 10 Mar 1615; was buried on 10 Mar 1615 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hawkestone, Shropshire, England

Family/Spouse: Margaret Whitehall. Margaret died before 17 Oct 1688; was buried on 17 Oct 1688 in St. Luke's, Hodnet, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 Jan 1568, Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Frances married Richard Welby on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Richard (son of Thomas Welby and Elizabeth Thimbleby) was born before 7 Feb 1564; was christened on 7 Feb 1564 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abraham Mellowes. Abraham was born about 1570; died before 4 Jun 1639 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Oliver St. John before 1597. Oliver (son of Henry St. John and Jane Neale) was born about 1575 in of Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England; died before 23 Mar 1626; was buried on 23 Mar 1626 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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- )

Peter married Jane Allen on 12 Apr 1613 in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England. Jane (daughter of Thomas Allen and Mary Fairclough) was born before 13 Jan 1588; was christened on 13 Jan 1588 in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England; died before 8 Dec 1626; was buried on 8 Dec 1626 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Grace Chetwood in Apr 1635. Grace (daughter of Richard Chetwode and Dorothy Needham) was born about 1602 in England; died on 21 Apr 1669 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Samuel Barbour on 7 Jan 1683 in St. Luke's, Hodnet, Shropshire, England. Samuel was born in of Prees, Shrosphire, England; died in 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy]

Thomas married Elizabeth Parke after 15 Feb 1620. Elizabeth was born in of Fleet, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Olive married Deacon Henry Farwell on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Deacon (son of William Farwell and Joan) was born about 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a follower of Anne Hutchinson, and one of those therefore disarmed.

Oliver married Elizabeth Hawkredd on 1 Jan 1634 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born before 8 Dec 1604; was christened on 8 Dec 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died after 1670 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP in the Long Parliament and Rump Parliament, Solicitor General, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

His relationship to the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War is extraordinarily complex and beyond the scope of this database.

He was probably born, like his sister Elizabeth, in Keysoe, Bedfordshire. Contrary to his Wikipedia article and his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was not a great-grandson of Oliver St. John, first Baron St. John of Bletso; they were instead first cousins twice removed, being both descended from John St. John (d. 1525) and his wife Sibyl ferch Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip.

Family/Spouse: Joan Altham. Joan died before 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Elizabeth Cromwell on 21 Jan 1638. Elizabeth died before 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Elizabeth Oxenbridge on 1 Oct 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Richard Westland on 13 Jun 1625 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England. Richard was born in of Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died between 9 Sep 1645 and 17 Sep 1646. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Sister to the Oliver St. John who was chief justice of England under Oliver Cromwell.

"She…was known for her beauty, dignity and commanding presence. For a woman of those days she had received a good education which made her the fit companion of the scholars and statesmen who were her relations. Even in her old age she did not lose her youthful fondness for the great poets of England, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, with whose works her husband's library at Lynn was stored. It is clear from the circles in which she moved that she was well informed about current affairs and the rights of government and royal prerogative." [John Roger Scott Whiting, citation details below]

She was a half first cousin 4 times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482). By the same common ancestor, she was a half fifth cousin once removed to her contemporary Charles I, making her possibly the seventeenth-century emigrant to New England most closely related to a sitting English monarch.

Elizabeth married Rev. Samuel Whiting on 6 Aug 1629 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Samuel (son of John Whiting, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire and Isabel) was born on 20 Nov 1597 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 11 Dec 1679 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married John Percival on 25 Sep 1633 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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:

From Wikipedia (accessed 22 May 2020):

Gershom Bulkeley was an early graduate of Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1655 and possibly his master's degree in 1658. After receiving his master's degree he might have married Sarah Chauncy, daughter of then Harvard President, Charles Chauncy. In 1661 became the minister of the Congregational church in New London, CT, where he served for roughly 5 years. He then became minister of the Congregational church in the town of Wethersfield, Connecticut where he served until 1677. He left the ministry and practiced as a physician in Glastonbury, CT.

When the Salem Witch Trials spread from Massachusetts to Connecticut in the autumn of 1692, he expressed considerable scepticism about the evidence, saying that he had heard nothing of any weight to convince him that anyone was guilty of witchcraft. In particular he argued that Marcy Disborough, one of the only two women accused in Connecticut who actually stood trial for witchcraft, was the victim of the malice of her neighbours. Mercy was founded guilty and sentenced to death, but received a reprieve. She was set free and died some time after 1709.

Gershom married Sarah Chauncy on 6 Oct 1659 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 13 Jun 1631 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England; died on 3 Jun 1699 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Egerton on 20 Apr 1707 in St. Chad, Prees, Shropshire, England. John was born on 12 Feb 1679 in London, England; was christened on 19 Feb 1679 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England; died on 9 Jul 1724; was buried on 11 Aug 1724 in St. Mary's, Rostherne, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]