Person talk:Peter Bulkeley (2)

Births were not recorded in England [15 March 2010]

Anderson appears to simply follow Jacobus. Jacobus attributes the birth to Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi written in 1702 ("He was born at Woodhil, (or Odel) in Bedford-Shire, January 31st. 1582."), and it is highly likely that the genealogical difference between birth and baptism was not significant to Mather, who wasn't even born when Bulkeley died. We don't know where Mather got the date, presumably from Peter's son Edward? I believe, based on typical English practice, that this is almost surely the baptism date, regardless of the words given to it centuries later. --Jrich 01:09, 16 March 2010 (EDT)

I don't disagree that it's weird to have a birth date. But I know far less than those authors about what was likely meant by whatever source they were looking at. At the very least, we can't quote the two sources saying birth as citations for it being a baptism.--Amelia 01:14, 16 March 2010 (EDT)