John Bulkeley (abt. 1395 - 1450)

Born about 1395 in Houghton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1450 at about age 55 in Haughton, Cheshire, England

Biography

Name

John Bulkeley

Birth

abt 1395 Houghton, Cheshire, England

Death

abt 1450 Haughton, England

John de Bulkley^[1] alias John Bulkylegh of Haughton^[2]

John was the son of Peter de Bulkeley and his wife, Nicola Bird.^[1] Peter, John's father, was the third son of Robert Bulkeley of Oteworth.^[3] Robert was the second son of William de Bulkylegh.^[2] William was lord of the manor of Bulkeley in 1322.^[3] Nicola, John's mother, was the daughter of Thomas le Brid alias Bird, the son of William de Halghton.^[3] William de Halghton's Inquisition post mortem in 39 Edward III [1365] found he died holding lands in Halghton, Alpram, and Tarporley, Cheshire, and Nicola, his granddaughter, was his next of kin and heir, of full age, and married to Peter de Bulkylegh.^[3]

John was the brother of:

1. Roger Bulkylegh, who married Margery, daughter and heir of John Bird of Broxton;^[2]

John married Audrey, the daughter and heir to John Titley of Wore.^[1] Chapman in The Bulkeley Family says, John married Andryne, the daughter and heir to John Colley of Ward,^[4] and in a pedigree for Bulkley of Haughton says she was Arderne, the daughter of Fitley of Woore, Salop.^[5]

John and Audrey had children:

1. Hugh Bulkley of Wore, who married Ellin, the daughter of Thomas Wilbram of Woodhey;^[1]

John held land in Broxton in 12-3 Richard II [1388-90].^[2]

John died in 1450.^[4]

Notes

30 Nov 1385: John de Bulkelegh^[6]

1385-86: John de Bulkelegh^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} John Paul Rylands, ed., "The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the Visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same Herald. With an Appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), 54, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/54/mode/2up : accessed 25 December 2017).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), II:652.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, II:290-1.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Rev F W Chapman, The Bulkeley Family or the Descendants of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who settled at Concord, Mass., in 1636, (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1875), 35, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/bulkeleyfamilyor00chap#page/34/mode/2up accessed 25 December 2017).
5. ↑ Rev F W Chapman, The Bulkeley Family or the Descendants of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, 22, Digital Image Internet Archive .
6. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Richard II: November 1385', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-1389, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1921), pp. 32-35. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol3/pp32-35 [accessed 25 June 2020].
7. ↑ M. C. B. Dawes, M. R. Devine, H. E. Jones and M. J. Post, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 36', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II (London, 1974), pp. 47-61. British History Online [1] [accessed 25 June 2020].

• Chapman, F. W. The Bulkeley Family (1875) Page 35 http://archive.org/stream/bulkeleyfamilyor00chap#page/n5/mode/2up

See also:

• Bob Hembree, http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2/RBL15.htm (unavailable on 25 December 2017).