Person:Thomas Bulkeley (2)

'Thomas Bulkeley was steward for Drayton Manor in Shropshire for Sir Rowland Hyll (d. 1561) of Hawkstone Park, a kinsman of Thomas' grandfather, William Hyll (d. 1561) of Drayton in Hales. William Hyll in his 1561 will ... makes his kinsman Sir Rowland Hyll one of the overseers of his estate.

'In 1551 Thomas Bulkeley, gent. leased the vill of Tunstall, which was part of the Manor of Betton in Hales, from Sir Rowland Hyll, and in 1586 was still in possession of some meadows and woodland of it after it had passed to Ralph Thycknes. In his 1591 will Thomas Bulkeley requested "My Bodie to be buryed in the Chappel called our Ladie Chappel in Drayton Church." '^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--Being an Account of His Career, His Ancestry, the Ancestry of His Two Wives, and His Relatives in England and New England, together with a Genealogy of His Descendants through the Seventh American Generation. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1933)
   page 5.

   'Thomas Bulkeley, of Woore, b. say 1515-20, lived in Buntingsdale in the parish of Market Drayton, Shropshire, died in 1591 and buried at Market Drayton; married Elizabeth Grosvenor, b. say 1520, daughter of Randall Grosvenor of Bellaport, co. Shropshire.'

2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--Being an Account of His Career, His Ancestry, the Ancestry of His Two Wives, and His Relatives in England and New England, together with a Genealogy of His Descendants through the Seventh American Generation. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1933)
   pages 888, 889.

   His will is dated '23 June 33 Elizabeth', which would be 1591.
   'Proved at Lichfield 19 October 1591, ...'

3. ↑ message 40, posted by Todd Whitesides, in Bulkeley Family Genealogy Forum.

   referencing deeds in the Shropshire Archives

4. ↑ Both his parents were of Shropshire, so it is assumed he was born there.