Person:William Wilson (170)

Rev. William Wilson
  1. Rev. William Wilson1542 - 1615
m.
  1. Rev. John WilsonAbt 1591 - 1667
  2. Margaret WilsonEst 1592 -
  • HRev. William Wilson1542 - 1615
Facts and Events
Name[1] Rev. William Wilson
Gender Male
Birth? 1542 Welbourn, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage London, London, Englandto Isabel Woodhall
Alt Marriage Est 1575 to Isabel Woodhall
Marriage to Unknown
Death[2] 15 May 1615 Windsor, Berkshire, England

He attended Merton College in Oxford, England where he obtained the following degrees: B.A. 1564, M.A. 1570, B.D. 1576, D.D. 1607.

Prebendary of Saint Paul's and Rochester Cathedrals, and held the rectory at Cliffe, Kent. In 1584, he became a Canon of Windsor in place of Dr. William Wickham who was promoted to the see of Lincoln, being about that time made chaplain to Edmund Grindall, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was his wife's uncle.

He died on 15 May 1615 at Windsor, Berkshire, England. He is buried at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, next to his father. His tomb states: "To me to live is Christ, and to dye is Gain. Philip. I.21. Here underneath lies interr'd the Body of William Wilson, Doctour of Divinitie, and Prebendarie of this Church by the Space of 32 Years. He had issue by Isabell his Wife six Sons and six Daughteres. He dy'd the 15th of May, in the Year of our Lord 1615, of his Age the 73, beloved of all in his Lyfe, much lamented in his Death." [3]

References
  1. Ellery Bicknell Crane. The Ancestry of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, With Some Account of His Life in Old and New England. (Private Press of Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1887)
    Pages 9-10, [Q:3].
  2. Genealogical Gleanings in England.

    Waters, Henry. Genealogical Gleanings in England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1884) Vol. 38, Page 306-7

  3. Threlfall, John. The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut (Madison, Wisconsin, 1989)