Sarah (Bulkeley) St John (abt. 1580 - bef. 1611)

Born about 1580 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Oliver St John — married before 1597 in England

Descendants

Died before Aug 1611 before about age 31 in England

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Biography

Sarah Bulkeley was the daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley and Olive Irby.^[1][2] Her date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

Sarah married Oliver Saint John, Gent., of Keysoe, Bedfordshire,^[1] before 1597.^[2] They had two sons and four daughters:

• Oliver, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas^[2]
• Edward^[2]
• Dorothy, wife of Richard Westland, Gent.^[2]
• Elizabeth, born 1605, died in Massachusetts 3 March 1676/7, married Rev. Samuel Whiting and had at least four children.^[2]
• Judith^[2]
• Judith (again), wife of John Percival.^[2]

Sarah died before 16 August 1611, when Oliver remarried to Alice Haselden. Oliver and Alice had three children together. Oliver was buried 23 March 1625/6 at Keysoe, Bedfordshire.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011, vol. I, page 348 BULKELEY 15.v.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition, Salt Lake City: the author, 2011, vol. III, page 480 SAINT JOHN 15.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Richardson. Royal Ancestry. (2013), vol. II, page 10.

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved by Thiessen-117 20 February 2020.

Sarah Bulkeley, mother of Gateway Ancestor Elizabeth (St John) Whiting, is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta surety baron Saher de Quincy (MCA I:346-348 BULKELEY). This trail was project-approved/badged in Feb 2015 by a Magna Carta project member and was re-reviewed in Feb 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails section in the profile of her father, Edward Bulkeley, to see the profiles in this trail.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".