Rev. Edward Bulkeley

He was educated in St. Johns College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England; Doctor of Divinity (1)

He was the son of Thomas Bulkeley of Woore and Elizabeth Grosvenor (2)

He was curate of St. Mary's in 1550 in Shrewsbury, England (3)

He married Olive Irby, daughter of John Irby Gent. and Rose Overton, in 1566 in Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, England. (4)

Reverend Doctor Edward Bulkeley of Odell was buried in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. (4)

Citations

1. TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129
2. TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129 and H. A. Bainbridge, "The Bulkeley Pedigree," in English Origins of New England Families, 1500s-1800s, From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Series 2, Vol I-III, 1985), pg. 351]
3. H. A. Bainbridge, "The Bulkeley Pedigree," in English Origins of New England Families, 1500s-1800s, From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Series 2, Vol I-III, 1985), pg. 351
4. TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129
5. The Bulkeley genealogy : Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation / compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Author Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887- page 18 Archive.Org Links

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He was educated in St. Johns College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England; Doctor of Divinity[TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129].

He was the son of Thomas Bulkeley of Woore and Elizabeth Grosvenor [TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129 and H. A. Bainbridge, "The Bulkeley Pedigree," in English Origins of New England Families, 1500s-1800s, From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Series 2, Vol I-III, 1985), pg. 351].

He was curate of St. Mary's in 1550 in Shrewsbury, England [H. A. Bainbridge, "The Bulkeley Pedigree," in English Origins of New England Families, 1500s-1800s, From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Series 2, Vol I-III, 1985), pg. 351].

He married Olive Irby, daughter of John Irby Gent. and Rose Overton, in 1566 in Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, England. Reverend Doctor Edward Bulkeley of Odell was buried in Odell, Bedfordshire, England [TH.D. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,, 1999), pg. 129].

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27. EDWARD*17 BULKELEY (THOMAS*16, WILLIAM*15, HUMPHREY*14, HUGH*13, JOHN*12, NICHOLA*11 LE BIRD, THOMAS*10, DAVID*9, HUGH*8, DAVID*7, RICHARD*6, HUGH*5, CHARLTON HUGO*4, HUGO*3 , HUGO*2, CARLTON HUGO*1) was born 1540 in Woore, Shropshire, England, and died January 05, 1619/20 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England.

He married OLIVE IRBY. She was born 1547 in Of, Kirton, Bedfordshire, England, and died March 10, 1613/14 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England.

Notes About EDWARD BULKELEY: Burial: January 05, 1619/20, Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Notes About OLIVE IRBY: Burial: March 10, 1613/14, Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Child of EDWARD BULKELEY and OLIVE IRBY is:

30. i. PETER*18 BULKELEY, b. January 31, 1581/82, Odell, Bedfordshire, England; d. March 09, 1657/58, Concord, Massachusetts.

Son of Thomas Bulkeley, steward of Drayton manor, by his wife Elizabeth Grosvenor, and grandson of William Bulkeley, esquire, of Oakley (in Mucklestone), Staffordshire, by his wife Beatrice Hill.

Matriculated pensioner from St John's College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1555, admitted Scholar 1555, B.A. 1559/60, admitted Fellow 1560, M.A. 1563, B.D. 1569, and D.D. 1578. Obtained the rectorship of Odell by 1571, was prebend of Chester 1574, prebend of Westminster 1583, prebend of Lichfield 1594, and vicar of St Mary, Shrewsbury 1578-82. Described as a professor of theology, he was admitted in 1580 as a burgess of Shrewsbury. Edward was a moderate Puritan, and resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably due to his age or infirmity. The entry of his burial in the Odell register on Jan. 5, 1620/21 was made by his son Peter, who had succeeded him as rector.

By his wife Olive Irby he was the father of (i) Mary, (ii) Frances, wife of Richard Welby of Moulton, (iii) Judith, (iv) Martha, wife of Abraham Mellowes of Charlestown, Massachusetts, (v) Nathaniel (c.1574-1602), (vi) Deborah, (vii) Dorcas (c.1577-1616), wife of Anthony Ingoldsby, rector of Fishtoft, (viii) Elizabeth (c.1579-1643) of Boston, Massachusetts, wife of Richard Whittingham and Atherton Haugh, (ix) Sarah, wife of Oliver St. John, (x) Paul (c.1581-1610), and (xi) Peter (1583-1659) of Concord, Massachusetts.

Edward Bulkeley was the maternal grandfather of Chief Justice Oliver St. John (c.1598-1673). He was also the ancestor of my 3rd-great-grandmother Martha Jane Trotter Sidener (1836-1917).