Jone Bulstrog

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jane Bolstridge
• Baptism: 21 Jan 1675, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thomas Bolstridge

Notes:

The children of Thomas and Rebecca Bulstrode have been entered un various spellings and this is the first instance of the use of Boulstridge and Bolstridge.
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At Present no link has been found to connect Thomas (and Rebecka) and Francis (and Jane Ashmore) to Edward and Margaret Bulstrode the evidence of a connection is purely circumstantial.
The Bedworth Registers clearly show a link between the Bulstrode and Bolstridge surnames. There are no other compulsory records that list a Bulstrode in the area except Sir William Bulstrode who died at Coventry, without issue, in 1646 and in his Will he made bequests to friends and to Edward Bulstrode (of Sole End) son of his kinsman Edward Bulstrode.
In 1774 a freeholder is listed at Bedworth Woodlands in the Warwickshire poll book called Francis Bolstridge.
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Examining the Bedworth registers we find the following :
William Bulstrode born 12 May, bapt. 5 June 1655
Thomas Bulstrode bapt. 14 July 1657 (this was written in at a later stage )
1659-1661 no register entries
Francis Bolstrod bapt. 1 July 1661(squeezed in at top of page out of order and in different hand)
1662 - April 1663 few entries at all register quite disorganized.
1663 Register in new hand and back no normal.
James Bolstridge Bapt. 2 May 1669
Samuel Bulstrodg Bapt. 5 May 1672
Jone Bulstrog Bapt. 21 Jan 1676
From 1678 - 1681 there are 4 entries of Bulstrod until Thomas son of Thomas junior reverts to Bolstridge on March 19th
All further entries at Bedworth then are either Bulstrodg(e) Bolstrig(e) or Boulstridg(e)
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Thomas married Rebecca UNKNOWN about 1653. Rebecca was born about 1632; died in Jul 1708 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 6 Jul 1708 in All Saints Churchyard, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Between 1620 and 1650; Lawyer and J.P.
• Office: 1655; Cromwell's Chief Justice of North Wales

Notes:

Memorials to two of Edward's grandsons, Edward Bulstrode, who was buried at Upper Deal church in Kent in 1718, and his brother, Whitelocke Bulstrode (not to be confused with cousin Bulstrode Whitelocke), who was buried in the Hounslow Priory chapel in Middlesex in 1724, each record that their grandfather was Edward Bulstrode of Soley End, near Astley in Co. Warwick, also of the Inner Temple, London, Esquire, sometime Chief Justice of North Wales. Soley End or Sole End, as it is now known, was a hamlet mentioned in the Doomsday Book, but is now represented only by the ancient Sole End Farm and a large house nearby, called Cow Lees.
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According to Wood's " Atheniae Oxienses " , 1632-95, Edward Bulstrode in the time of the grand rebellion, siding with the Presbyterians, and taking the covenant, was, by the endeavours of his nephew Bulstrode Whitelocke, a leading man in the long parliament, and a favourite of Oliver, made one of the justices of North Wales. Bulstrode Whitelocke records that, on 21st January 1646, I attended this committee and procured them to name my uncle Mr. Edward Bulstrode, a reader in the Inner Temple, to be a judge in Wales for which he was a fit and learned person. Edward was so appointed on 15th June 1649, the year of Charles I's execution.
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Edward was the author of: " A Golden Chain: or a Miscellany of Divers Sentences of the Sacred Scriptures, and of other Authors, collected and linked together for the Soul's Comfort " , 1657, and of " Reports of divers Resolutions and Judgments " , in three parts, 1657, 1658, 1659. Thomas Fuller's " History of the Worthies of England " , under " Writers on the Law " , records that:

Edward Bulstrode, Esq., (born in this county [Bucks.] bred in the studies of our municipal laws in the Inner Temple and his Highness's justice in North Wales) hath written a book of divers resolutions and judgments, with the reasons and causes thereof given in the Court of the King's Bench in the reign of King James and King Charles, and is lately deceased.
In 1712, Edward was referred to as a very learned Lawyer as appears by his book of Reports, a Work of great esteem to this Day.
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Bulstrode Whitelocke records that, on 21st January 1646, I attended this committee and procured them to name my uncle Mr. Edward Bulstrode, a reader in the Inner Temple, to be a judge in Wales for which he was a fit and learned person. Edward was so appointed on 15th June 1649, the year of Charles I's execution.
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Buried:
Buried Adjacent to the Pulpit

Edward married Margaret Chamberlain about 1616. Margaret (daughter of Richard Chamberlain and Unknown UNKNOWN) was born about 1590 in Astley, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Parentage: Dau Richard Chamberlaine of Astley Castle

Notes:

Astley Castle had been formerly owned by Lady Jane Grey's father, the Duke of Suffolk, whose estates were forfeited to the Crown on his execution in 1554. In 1557, the manor was granted to Richard Chamberlain's grandfather, Edward, second son of Sir Edward Chamberlain of Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire. Richard Chamberlain, Edward Bulstrode's father-in-law, was responsible for extensive reconstruction of Astley parish church in 1607.
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Notes:

On 10th January 1623, an agreement was signed between:

Richard Chamberlayne of Astley, in the County of Warwick, Esquire, of the one part, and Edward Bulstrode of the Inner Temple, London, Esquire, Margaret Bulstrode, wife of the said Edward (and daughter of the said Richard) and Richard Bulstrode, son of the said Edward and Margaret, of the other part, whereby, in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of good and lawful money of England,

Edward purchased, on a 99 years lease, a dwelling house and an estate,
Lying and Being in the Several Parishes of Astley, aforesaid, and Bedworth in the said County of Warwick.

The estate comprised :
one Messuage or Tenement Anciently called Emeries and divers Closures, Crofts, Parcels of Land, Pastures, Meadows, Coppice and Groves with the said Messuage or Tenement used or unto the same belonging and appertaining. All with parcels and known by the several names of the Longcroft, the Middlecroft, the Pear tree Piece, the Croyfield the Leafield, the Soleyfield, the Middlefield, Stanhurst Meadows, one little Coppice or Grove called Lacock Grove, the Spring Lees, the Cow Lees pasture or the over Cow Lees, the Nether Cow Lees, one other little Coppice or Grove called the Cow Lees Grove, the Cow Lees Close, or pasture, lying and abutting next unto and upon the Spring Lees at the one end, and the over Cow Lees, at the other end, with all and singular Houses, Barns, Gardens, Orchards, Lands, Meadows, Feeding Pastures, Crofts, Groves, woods, underwoods and commons and all other the appurtenances whatsoever to the said Messuage or tenement belonging or therewith used or occupied .?? This estate, lying midway between Astley church and Bedworth church, was part and parcel of the Marriage portion of the said Margaret and for the better preferment and advancement of the said Margaret in her said marriage and for divers other good causes and considerations.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Of: Hedgerley Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, England
• Occupation: Lawyer of the Inner Temple
• Baptism: 3 Nov 1550, Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England
• Office: Between 1576 and 1584; High Sherriff of Buckinghamshire

Notes:

He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1573-4 and appointed Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1576. Head of the family, he died in 1598 and was buried in Upton church where there are memorial brasses engraved with figures of Edward, wearing plate armour and a sword, his wife, Cecilia, and their four Sons and six daughters, with shields bearing the family coats of arms and an inscription: Here lyeth the body of Edward Bvlstrode Esqvire and Cecill his Wife, one of the daughters of John Croke Esq. by whom he had issue four sons Henrye, Thomas, Edward, and William and vj Daughters Elizabeth, Margarett, Anne, Cecil!, Magdalen, and Dorothy, Whoe Departed this mortal life the last day of August in the yere of our Lorde God 1598.

Edward married Cecilia Croke in 1571 in Saint Dunstan's In The West, London, England. Cecilia (daughter of Sir John Croke and Elizabeth Unton) was born about 1553 in Chilton, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Of: Astley Castle, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Abt 1615; Lawyer
• Office: Abt 1615, Astley, Warwickshire, England; Lord of the Manor of Astley

Richard married Unknown UNKNOWN about 1579. Unknown was born about 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Issue
Edward, Elizabeth, Mary, Francis, Margaret and Jane in 1619