23153. Wilson

Outline

1. William Wilson m. ____; Penrith, Cumb., Eng.
2. William Wilson (ca. 1515–1587) m. ____; Welbourn, Lincs., Eng.
3. Mary Wilson (ca. 1560–1613) m. (1) bef. 1583 Rev. Guy Briscoe (ca. 1555–1595); Sundridge, Rochester, Wouldham, Kent, Eng.

Sources

The basic chronological summary of this lineage is Joseph Gardner Bartlett, Ancestry and Descendants of Rev. John Wilson of Boston, Mass., New England Historical and Genealogical Register 61 (1907): 36-41. However, several refinements on Mary Wilson in particular now appear in Austin W. Spencer, Maureen Markt Dearborn, and David Curtis Dearborn, William¹ Briscoe of Boston, Massachusetts, His English Origin, and the Brisko and Wilson Families of Cumberland, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178 (2024): 5-51. Among other things, this research disputes that the references to William Collins, prebendary of Rochester Cathedral, as a cousin in the will of the Rev. William Wilson, Mary’s brother, reflect a relationship through an otherwise unknown maternal line, as proposed by John Brooks Threlfall, An Extension of the Sheafe Ancestry, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 137 (1983): 296, and the same writer’s The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590–1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?–1669) of Guilford, Connecticut (Madison, Wisc., 1989), 51, 95.

Related surnames

1447. Briscoe