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Rebecca Whelpley (Bulkeley)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Fairfield, Connecticut, or, Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: before November 19, 1690
Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Bulkeley and Sarah Wilson
Wife of Joseph Whelpley
Mother of Sarah Nash and Joseph Whelpley
Sister of John Bulkeley; Sarah Brown; Joseph Bulkley; Hannah Sherman; Peter Bulkeley and 1 other

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Immediate Family

About Rebecca Whelpley

Family of Thomas Bulkeley & Sarah Jones:

Rebecca Bulkeley. Rebecca died in 1690 in Fairfield, CT.65 Rebecca married Joseph Whelpley. Joseph died in 1682 in Fairfield, CT.6

Their children include:

  • i. Sarah Whelpley (30 Jun 1676-20 Feb 1760)
  • ii.Rebecca Whelpley (2 Apr 1679-19 Apr 1709)
  • iii.Joseph Whelpley (7 Oct 1682-1708)

The will of Sarah Wilson, “sometimes Sarah Bulkley,” dated 26 Apr 1677, codicil 15 Feb 1680, proved 2 Jan 1683, mentions daughter Sarah wife of Eliazer Browne of New Haven, daughter Rebecca wife of Joseph Whelplie of Fairfield, daughter Hannah, sisterin-law Mr. Eliphalet Jones’ wife, sister Elizabeth Hill, two sons John and Joseph Bulkley. Brother-in-law Mr Gershom Bulkeley of Wethersfield and Samuel Wakeman, overseers. Witnesses, Gershom Bulkley and Israell Chancy.6


  • http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_085.html#P27121
    • 6. Donald Lines Jacobus, 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, New Haven, Connecticut, 1933. Page 113. < Archive.Org >
  • Abstract of probate records at Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, 1648-1750 by Mead, Spencer P. pg 78. < link >
  • “Early New England Families, 1641-1700.” (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached).
    • 31 Bulkeley Gen, 113; except for the first, we have no birth records for Thomas’ children, but since he was dead by April 1658, all would have been born before that time, with the possible exception of a posthumous child born within nine months.
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195112033/rebecca-whelpley
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Rebecca Whelpley's Timeline

1652
1652
Fairfield, Connecticut, or, Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1676
June 30, 1676
Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
1682
October 7, 1682
Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
1690
November 19, 1690
Age 38
Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
1934
April 28, 1934
Age 38
September 18, 1934
Age 38