William Bulkeley DD

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Died about 1671 in Oldbawn, County Dublin, Ireland

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Church of Ireland Clergy

William was educated at Trinity College Dublin. B.A. 1621, D.D. 26 January 1661. ^[1]

He was collated as Prebendary of Malahidert (St Patrick's, Dublin) on 8 May 1626. (FF.) He resigned shortly afterwards, and around 1630 he became Chancellor of St Patrick's.

On the 18 April 1630, he was appointed Vicar-General of the diocese.

He was collated as Archdeacon of Dublin on 5 April 1636 (FF.) ; installed at Christ Church July 1st. He appears again in 1660 and 1663; and in the latter year was Vicar-General of the diocese.

In February 1642 he made a deposition regarding the events of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in which he states he lost church tithes and that his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Maynwaring, was compelled to marry a catholic and because of this he has lost more than a thousand pounds. ^[2]

William Bulkeley Clerke Archdeacon of Dublin being duely Sworne & examined deposeth

That he hath owing him in the County of Kilkenny for tiethe [Tithes] there. 29 li. which he can neuer recouer, by reason his tenant since the rebellion began writeth vnto him, that the Said tieth was to bee paid to the popish priest, And further deposeth that his whole tieths there weare leased for 58 li. per annum, which he was to enioyed during his life or [ ] vntill his remoueall out of that liueing: And further that his wiues father Mr Henry Maynwaring deceased left a greate estate vnto Mrs Elizabeth Maynwaring his Relict during her life, who had only liuing, this deponents said wife & a daughter of another daughters, which the Said Relict entirely loued, to whome she would haue left all, her meanes as this deponent verily belieueth, But she hauing continued a widow for many yeares & now being aboue 70 yeares of adge, was Since this Rebellion, by force of armes, as this deponent vnderstandeth by her letters, compelled to marry one Mr Phillip Pursell of Ballyfoyle, a Papist & a Rebell, she hauing bin a protestant all the days of her life, by meanes whereof he this deponent, as he verily belieueth in his conscience, lost aboue a thousand pownds, All which, (besides what is before deposed concerning his Losses, & his greate hopes of a good estate from his deare parents, the rest of theire children being provided for) he hath lost by reason of this Rebellion.

William married Elizabeth Mainwaring, daughter of Henry Mainwaring, who although he was a layman was Archdeacon of Ossory.

He died in 1671. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
2. ↑ Deposition of William Bulkeley, 22/2/1642, 1641 Depositions, Trinity College Dublin, MS 809, fols 250v-251v, http://1641.tcd.ie/index.php/deposition/?depID=809250v142. Accessed 02 February 2022.
3. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dw/IRE_DIOC_007246541_00098.pdf

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p18891.htm#i188907
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Bulkeley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Bulkeley,_1st_Baronet
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 2 - The Province of Leinster, Pg 117, 130, 153

• Wikipedia - William Bulkeley
• Complete baronetage by George Cokayne, Publication date 1900, Vol 4, pg 207