Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D.1 
b. circa 1540, d. January 1620/21
Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D.|b. c 1540\nd. Jan 1620/21|p998.htm|Thomas Bulkeley|b. say 1515-1520\nd. 1591|p1003.htm|Elizabeth Grosvenor|b. s 1515|p1004.htm|William Bulkeley|d. 4 Mar 1571|p1026.htm|Beatrice Hill||p1027.htm|Randall Grosvenor Esq.|b. c 1482\nd. b 3 Mar 1559/60|p1005.htm|Anne Charlton|b. c 1480|p1006.htm|
9th great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
11th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Underwood and Allied Families
- Appears on charts:
- Pedigree for Louise Underwood
Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D. was born circa 1540.1,2 He was the son of Thomas Bulkeley and Elizabeth Grosvenor.1 He married Olive Irby, daughter of John Irby and Rose Overton, circa 1566.1,2 He died in January 1620/21 in Odell, Bedfordshire.1 He was buried on 5 January 1620/21 in Odell.3,2
Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D. matriculated pensioner from St. John's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England,, Michaelmas, 1555; Scholar, 1555; B.A., 1559/60; M.A. 1563; B.D., 1569; D.D., 1578; Fellow, 1560.1 He "compounded" for the living at Odell 6 March 1571/72, 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.1 He obtained the rectorship of Odell, probably in 1574. He was Prebend of Chester, 1574; of Westminster, 1583; of Lichfield, 1594; and was Vicar of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, 1578-82. He was one of the commissioners appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1608 for the "Levye of Armour" in Bedfordshire among the clergy. A moderate Puritan, he resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably because of increasing age.4 The will of Edward Bulkeley late of "Woodhall," County Bedford, doctor of theology, deceased, was proved January 1620/21, and a commission to administer was granted to Peter Bulkeley, son of the said deceased, and executor named in the will. The will does not exist, either filed or in the register.5 Notable among his descendants are both President Bushes, and former Presidential candidate, John Forbes Kerry.
Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D. matriculated pensioner from St. John's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England,, Michaelmas, 1555; Scholar, 1555; B.A., 1559/60; M.A. 1563; B.D., 1569; D.D., 1578; Fellow, 1560.1 He "compounded" for the living at Odell 6 March 1571/72, 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.1 He obtained the rectorship of Odell, probably in 1574. He was Prebend of Chester, 1574; of Westminster, 1583; of Lichfield, 1594; and was Vicar of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, 1578-82. He was one of the commissioners appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1608 for the "Levye of Armour" in Bedfordshire among the clergy. A moderate Puritan, he resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably because of increasing age.4 The will of Edward Bulkeley late of "Woodhall," County Bedford, doctor of theology, deceased, was proved January 1620/21, and a commission to administer was granted to Peter Bulkeley, son of the said deceased, and executor named in the will. The will does not exist, either filed or in the register.5 Notable among his descendants are both President Bushes, and former Presidential candidate, John Forbes Kerry.
Children of Reverend Edward Bulkeley D.D. and Olive Irby
- Mary Bulkeley5 b. c 1567
- Frances Bulkeley+ 1 b. c 1568
- Judith Bulkeley5 b. c 1570
- Martha Bulkeley5 b. c 1572
- Nathaniel Bulkeley5 b. c 1574, d. 1602
- Deborah Bulkeley5 b. c 1575
- Dorcas Bulkeley5 b. c 1577
- Elizabeth Bulkeley5 b. c 1579, d. 14 Oct 1643
- Sarah Bulkeley5 b. c 1580, d. 1611
- Paul Bulkeley5 b. c 1581
- Reverend Peter Bulkeley D.D.5 b. 31 Jan 1582/83, d. 9 Mar 1658/59
Citations
- [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 volumes (Hillburn, New York: Snow, 1939), 1: 309.
- [S630] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Lancaster, Massachusetts: n.pub., 1950; Seventh Edition Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), Line 31.
- [S265] 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: n.pub., 1933), 16.
- [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 1: 309, 310.
- [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 1: 310.
