Anne Barker

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• Parentage: Dau Ambrose Barker of Sonning Berks

Anne married Thomas Bulstrode on 16 Jun 1541 in Saint Martin, Pomeroy, London, England. Thomas (son of George Bulstrod and Joan Piggot) was born about 1520 in Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 11 Sep 1599. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Woodward about 1566. John was born about 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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]

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• Of: Birkin Manor, Dorset, England

Elizabeth married Sir James Whitlocke on 10 Sep 1602 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. James was born on 28 Nov 1570 in London, England; died on 26 Jun 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Of: Horton, Buckinghamshire, England
• Occupation: Justice of the Peace
• Occupation: MP for Helston and Buckinghamshire
• Baptism: 5 Jan 1578, Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England
• Office: 1625, Buckinghamshire, England; Justice of the Peace and Sherriff of Buckinghamshire
• Probate: 1653; PCC Admon Vol 11 Folio 19

Henry married Mary Read on 14 Sep 1600 in Barton, Berkshire, England. Mary (daughter of Thomas Read and Maria UNKNOWN) was born about 1580 in Barton Juxta Abingdon, Bedfordshire, England; died in 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Bridget Evans on 22 Jul 1615 in Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England. Bridget was born about 1580; died on 29 Oct 1641. [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

Family/Spouse: Unknown UNKNOWN. Unknown was born about 1590. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

• Occupation: Between 1626 and 1670; M.P. and Lawyer
• Office: 1670, Westminster, London, England; Ambassador to Sweden & Keeper of the Great Seal

Notes:

Bulstrode Whitelocke, who was born at the home of his great-uncle Sir George Croke in Fleet Street on 6th August 1605, was christened at St. Dunstan's in the West on 19th August. Like his father, he was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and St. John's College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1626 and became Treasurer there in 1628. He was M.P. for Stafford in 1626 and appointed Recorder of Abingdon and Henley. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. M.P. for Great Marlow in the Long Parliament, he played a prominent part on the side of Parliament in the conflict with Charles I, like his uncle Henry Bulstrode and cousin Thomas.

When Bulstrode Whitelocke was at Oxford, the President of his College was William Laud, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, a friend of his father's, who took a great interest in his education. Because of this friendship, in spite of Laud's merciless persecution of the Puritans, Bulstrode refused to take part in his prosecution.

While in college, Bulstrode played an active part in field sports and musical activities and, at Christmas 1628, he was chosen Master of Revels at the Middle Temple. Five years later, when the four Inns of Court joined forces to organise a masque to be performed before the King and Queen, Bulstrode had the whole care and charge of the music for the great masque, which was so performed that it excelled any music that ever before that time had been heard in England. This may possibly have given him a little consolation, for his first wife, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Bennett, Alderman of London, whom he married in June 1630, had become insane. She died on 9th May 1634. Their eldest son, James, became a colonel in Cromwell's army and was knighted by the Protector at the age of twenty-five. Bulstrode married, secondly, on 9th November 1635, Frances, sister of Francis, Lord Willoughby of Parham. Their eldest son, William, was knighted by William III in 1689.
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Thomas married Calleberry Mayne on 4 Dec 1626 in Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England. Calleberry (daughter of Simon Mayne) was born about 1605 in Dinton, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Whitchcote about 1631. Thomas was born about 1605. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Knight about 1627. Thomas was born about 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mildred Broome on 24 Sep 1632 in Horton, Buckinghamshire, England. Mildred (daughter of George Broome) was born about 1612 in Ashford, Kent, England; died in 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Of: Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire, England
• Occupation: Lawyer Soldier and Diplomat

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Sir Richard Bulstrode
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A soldier, diplomatist, and author, born 1610; died 1711, was the second son of Edward Bulstrode by Margaret, daughter of Richard Ashley, chamberlain of the queen's household and member of the Inner Temple. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and while at the university was the author of a poem on the birth of the Duke of York. At twenty-three years of age he entered the Inner Temple and in 1649, at his father's request and through his interest, was made a bencher. During the Civil War he was loyal to the king, serving in the Prince of Wales's regiment and holding at times the post of adjutant. He was later promoted to the rank of Adjutant-General of Horse, and still later to be Quartermaster-General. He was appointed to take charge of the funeral of Lord Strafford and became responsible for the expenses attending it; on being pressed by his creditors he fled to Bruges. He subsequently underwent a short term of imprisonment, which was terminated by the payment of the debt by Charles II. On his return he was appointed auditor of a Scotch regiment then serving in the Netherlands and in 1673 was appointed agent at the court of Bruges. He was temporarily recalled two years later, and on 1675 was knighted and again sent to Brussels, this time as resident, where he remained until the accession of James II when he was made envoy. When the revolution of 1688 compelled James to leave England, Bulstrode accompanied him to the court of Saint-Germain, where he remained until his death. Among his writings are: " Original Letters written to Earl of Arlinton, with an account of the Author's Life and Family " , " Life of James II " , " Memoirs and Reflections on the Reign and Government of Charles I and Charles II " and a large number of elegies and epigrams.
THOMAS GAFFNEY TAAFFEE
Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas
From the Catholic Encyclopedia, copyright ? 1913 by the Encyclopedia Press, Inc
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The Dictionary of National Biography wrongly records Sir Richard's mother, Margaret, as the daughter of Richard Astley, chamberlain of the Queen's household and that Sir Richard was born in 1610. He himself wrote that he was born in the year 1617 - 7 years before James the first dyed. James I died on 27th March 1624. Add. MSS 3885 f129 1689
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Unlike his father and most other members of his family (several of whom were also lawyers and some members of Parliament) Richard sympathised with King Charles, joining the Royalist forces at the outbreak of the Civil War, but, in later life wrote:

" I was then very young and in a labyrinth, not knowing well which way to go, but at last I resolved to go to Whitehall [Palace] with some gentlemen of the Inner Temple, being then newly come thither from Cambridge, where I had been bred in Pembroke Hall. I was brought up to London by my father from Coventry, where we then dwelt. "

Richard was later to achieve distinction as a soldier, lawyer, diplomat and historian and to be knighted by Charles II for his services.
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Further reading:-
Richard Bulstrode: Memoirs and Reflections upon the Reign and Government of King Charles I and King Charles II, containing an account of several remarkable facts not mentioned by other historians of those times wherein the character of the Royal Martyr and of Charles II are vindicated from 'fanatical aspersions.1721
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Richard took part in the siege of Warwick Castle from 7th to 23rd August 1642, on which he recorded: Our endeavours for taking it were to little purpose for we only had two small pieces of cannon which were brought from Compton House, belonging to the Earl of Northampton, and those were drawn to the top of the church steeple and were discharged at the castle, to which they could do no hurt, but only frightened them within the castle, who shot into the street, and killed several of our men. This was the first Action I was ever in and, being upon an unruly Horse, he ran away with me amongst the Enemy, while we pursued them to the Bridge, in which Hurly I lost my Hat.

Richard, who served in the Prince of Wales Regiment of Horse, wrote: I was engaged in all the wars with King Charles the first and received a terrible wound from a pole axe in my head at Edge Hill which was the first great battle between the King and his rebellious subjects which was fought on 23rd October 1642.
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Richard married Marie Stamford about 1642. Marie was born about 1620; died before 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Joyce Dyneley on 21 Feb 1648 in Saint Martin's In The Fields, Westminster, London, England. Joyce (daughter of Edward Dyneley) was born in 1627 in Charlton, Worcestershire, England; died on 29 Apr 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer
• Office: 1660, Westminster, London, England; Serjeant at Arms

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His brother, Richard, records that, in 1672,:

I went to find my brother Henry who was very private in London, after having had the misfortune to kill a Sussex gentleman, his neighbour, in a duel and tho' wounded himself yet was so severely prosecuted that he must leave England. I moved my Lord Arlington [the Principal Secretary of State] privately, to get His Majesty's leave, that my brother might go over with me into Holland and I would undertake to place him where he should give his Lordship constant accounts of what passed in those parts worthy of his knowledge, that by his great diligence and industry should merit his Master's Pardon, if not his grace and favour Which being granted to me, I carried my brother, where I placed him very well for His Majesty's service, where he so factually performed that he did not only get His Majesty's Pardon under the Great Seal but did His Majesty such further service that he was rewarded for it.
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Henry married Mary Hall on 5 Nov 1654 in Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, London, England. Mary (daughter of John Hall) was born about 1625 in Petworth, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Of: Dorchester, Dorset, England
• Occupation: Lawyer of the Inner Temple
• Office: 1650, Dorset, England; Commisioner for Dorset

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:

• Name: Francis Bolstrig

Francis married Jane Ashmore on 29 Jan 1658 in All Saints, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. Jane was born about 1637; died in Jun 1685 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 2 Jul 1685 in All Saints Churchyard, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]