Jabez Bulkeley (bef. 1626 - bef. 1629)

Born before 6 Dec 1626 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Died before 2 Dec 1629 at about age 2 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England

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Biography

JABEZ BULKELEY was the son of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his 1st wife Jane Allen. their ninth known child.^[1]

Joseph was baptized at Odell, Bedfordshire on 6 December1626.^[2]

Jabez died at Odell and was buried there on 2 December 1629, likely not reaching his 3rd birthday.^[3]

Jabez means "Sorrowful; Borne in pain," a mother's relief of finally holding her baby in her arms after a difficult labor. From 1 Chronicles 4:9–10 (KJV): "Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying: "I gave birth to him in pain." Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, saying: "Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory!"^[4]

Giving this child that name was, perhaps, Peter's way of both memorializing wife Jane's struggles in delivering the baby and a recognition that she indeed got to hold him in her arms before she died. Jane was buried at Odell on 6 December 1626, the same day Jabez was baptized.

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933) page 111 seen at https://archive.org/details/bulkeleygenealog00jaco_0/page/110/mode/2up
2. ↑ Bedfordshire Parish Registers|Bedfordshire Parish Registers]] (County Record Office, Bedford, 1935) Vol. 11, seen at https://archive.org/details/bedfordshirepari11bedf/page/n16/mode/1up Page A3: Baptism.
3. ↑ Blaydes, Frederic. Genealogia Bedfordiensis (Chiswick Press, London, 1890) seen at https://archive.org/details/cu31924029784638/page/n239/mode/1up Page 221]: Burial, and at https://archive.org/details/bedfordshirepari11bedf/page/n49/mode/1up Page A36]: Burial.
4. ↑ Bible Gateway, King Jame's Version seen at https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%204%3A9-10&version=KJV

See also:

• Chapman, Rev. F. W. The Bulkeley Family (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1875) seen at https://archive.org/stream/bulkeleyfamilyor00chap#page/38/mode/2up Page 38.
• Royal Ancestry, by Douglas Richardson, Vol. II, page 10: "Children of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Sr. and (1st) wife Jane (Allen) born in England were, Edward, Mary, Thomas, Nathaniel, [Rev.] John, Joseph, Daniel, Jabez, and Mary (again)."