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From: Kay Allen AG <>
Subject: Re: Bulkeley Wives
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 06:31:02 -0800


Comments interspersed.

Brent Miller wrote:
>
> Althea Van Pay wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for information on the following three women:
> >
> > 1. Beatrice HILL, wife of William BULKELEY.
>
> She is covered in Burke's Commoners, Vol. I, p. 655

Unfortunately, Burke's is notoriously rotten for this period and should
bu used with a salt shaker instead of just a grain of salt :-)


as follows:
>
> FIRST GENERATION
>
> 1. Beatrice HILL: born in of, Woore, Shropshire, England
>
> SECOND GENERATION
>
> 2. HILL: married
>
> THIRD GENERATION
>
> 4. William HILL: married
> 5. Alice DE BUNBURY
>
> FOURTH GENERATION
>
> 8. William HILL: born in of, Blore; married
> 9. Margaret BARKER
> 10. Richard DE BUNBURY: married

Alice de Bunbury is supposed to be sister to a Richard. Her parentage is
currently unproven.
>
> FIFTH GENERATION
>
> 16. Humphrey HILL: born in of, Buntingale; married
> 17. Agnes BIRD
> 18. Thomas BARKER: married
>
> SIXTH GENERATION
>
> 32. Griffith HULL: born in of, Hull, Shropshire, England; married

Given in Morris as Griffin. This would seem to me to be a Welsh
intrusion for Gruffudd. In Welsh the double dd is pronounced th.
> 33. Margaret WARREN
> 34. John BIRD: married
>
> SEVENTH GENERATION
>
> 64. William HULL: born in of, Hull, Shropshire, England; married
> 66. WARREN: married
>
> EIGHTH GENERATION
>
> 128. Hugh HULL: born in of, Hull, Shropshire, England; married
> 129. Eleanor WLONKESLOWE
>
> NINTH GENERATION
>
> 258. Hugh WLONKESLOWE: married
>
> >
> > 2. Grisell MOULTON, wife of Humphrey BULKELEY (he b. 1424), and mother of
> > the above William.

I have guesstimated Humphrey, if he exists, being born 1430/35. But this
family needs much work in assigning dates.
>
> > 3. Helen WILBRAHAM, wife of Hugh BULKELEY and mother of Humphrey above.
>
> Also from Burke's Commoners, Vol. 1, p. 316:
>
> FIRST GENERATION
>
> 1. Helen WILBRAHAM: born in of, Woore, Shropshire, England

This Helen is never shown in any of the Wilbraham Pedigrees. If she does
exist, she may be from another, lesser known branch of the family.
Wilbrahams were of Woodhey, not of Woore.
>
> SECOND GENERATION
>
> 2. Thomas WILBRAHAM: born in of, Woore, Shropshire, England; married; died in
> 1491

7 August 1492.


> 3. Margaret SWETTENHIM
>
> THIRD GENERATION
>
> 4. Thomas WILBRAHAM: born in 1366

Born 1389 as 21 in Aug. 1410.

Burke's is only a generation off.


in of, Radnor; married; died in 1414

D. 19 Aug. 1467. Shows how good Burke's really is :-)

> 5. Margery GOLBURNE
> 6. Thomas DE SWETTENHAM: married
>

I hope you will purge your database of this garbage.

Kay Allen AG

>
> Brent Miller
>
> >
> > Sorry I have no other dates than the birth of Humphrey. Any help would do,
> > a reference maybe.
> >
> > Althea Van Pay
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