Rev. John BULKELEY

Male 1620 - 1689  (~ 69 years)


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  • Name John BULKELEY  [1
    • He was graduated from Harvard College in the first graduating class, 1642; returned to England, where he became minister at Fordham, co. Essex. he was ejected in 1662, following the Restoration; removed to Wapping in the suburbs of London and practiced as a physician until his death.

      "He was a learned and eminently Pious Man. He whole life was a continual Sermon. Tho' he was not often in the Pulpit, yet he might truly be said to Preach every Day in the Week. And seldom did he visit his Patients, without reading a Lecture of Divinity to them, and praying with them."

      "That which gave at Lustre to all his other Vertues, as his great Humility, the constant Sweetness of his Temper, Integrity of his Mind, and Charitableness of his Nature, which appear'd in every part of his life."

      Mr. Bulkeley, by deed dated 20 Dec. 1645, gave to Harvard College his portion of a garden containing over an acre in Cambridge, on Harvard Street, which became the College yard. [1]
    Prefix Rev. 
    Christening 6 Feb 1619/20  Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 May 1689  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I101721  Main Tree
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Father Rev Peter BULKELEY,   b. 31 Jan 1582/3, Odell, co. Bedford Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Mar 1659, Concord, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Jane ALLEN,   c. 13 Jn 1587/8, Goldington, co. Bedford England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 8 Dec 1626, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 12 Apr 1613  Goldington, co. Bedford Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Family ID F32526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Anne TRY   d. Bef 1665 
    Marriage 19 Mar 1650  Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F443  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Family 2 Elizabeth ?,   b. of East Smithfield Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 6 Sep 1667  Harrow-on-the-Hill, co. Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F450  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Family 3 Avis ?   bur. 7 Feb 1695/6, All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S12186] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., The Bulkeley Genealogy - Rev. Peter Bulkeley.

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.