Some New England lines for Edmund Wilson and Elizabeth Bisho

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John Brandon

Some New England lines for Edmund Wilson and Elizabeth Bisho

Legg inn av John Brandon » 22 sep 2007 00:47:16

Critic Edmund Wilson and poet Elizabeth Bishop are two literary
figures that have been on my "wish-list" for a well-researched
ancestor table (I knew, or suspected, that both had New England
ancestry). Given the excellent research tools available on the Google
Books search engine, I undertook to work a few of these lines out for
myself.

Any number of Google Books references show Wilson was son of Edmund,
Sr., and Helen Mather (Kimball) Wilson ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=vZoYAA ... all&pgis=1

At least part of my interest in Edmund Wilson's ancestry involves the
Kimball family, as I have Kimball lines through both of my maternal
grandparents, quite a number through my grandfather, as the Kimballs
intermarried early on with the Coffins (Kimball, Howland, and
Whitfield are the three families ancestral to both my grandfather and
grandmother).

A quite detailed pedigree chart of Wilson's ancestry is readily
available on WorldConnect:

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? ... id=I358000

Among the "prominent" families I note in his ancestry are the Mathers,
Stoughtons, Footes, and Spencers. I see he has a line as well from
Frances (Bray) Crippen, a clue to whose ancestry I recently pointed
out (the will of her sister Rebecca [Bray] Draper mentions her as
being in New England):

http://books.google.com/books?id=XCQFAA ... s+crippins

Edmund Wilson's ancestors William and Bethia (Faulkner) Bull are
apparently included in _ The History and Genealogy of the William Bull
and Sarah Wells Family_:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fzk7AA ... ner&pgis=1

This would probably help flesh out that part of his pedigree.

* * * * * *

I get the following AT for Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), using the
Google Book links pasted at the bottom:

1. Elizabeth Bishop
2. William Thomas Bishop (1872-1911) m. 1908
3. Gertrude May Boomer (1879-1934)
4. John Wilson [not William] Bishop (1846-1923) m. 1870
5. Sarah Anne Foster (1849-1923)
6. William Boomer
7. Elizabeth Hutchinson
8. - 9. ---
10. Thomas R. Foster
11. Sarah Jane Fales
12. - 19. ---
20. Rufus Foster
21. Nancy Torrey
22. Ambrose Fales
23. Amy Newell
24. - 41. ---
42. Abner Torrey
43. Susannah Hobart


http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXb ... viGIvNTt1c

http://books.google.com/books?id=3nRJRr ... mbGpl7A5zw

http://books.google.com/books?id=SWdngG ... lHLLrTnSy0

http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXb ... yujHv0XDf8

http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXb ... ouyKjDVUUE

http://books.google.com/books?id=nfhSZx ... +a.+foster

http://books.google.com/books?id=nfhSZx ... +worcester

http://books.google.com/books?id=rSwfAA ... %22+foster

http://books.google.com/books?id=rSwfAA ... r#PPA16,M1

This is enough for a start, I suppose. There may be a line from Mrs.
Jane (Haviland) Torrey, of royal descent.

John Brandon

Re: Some New England lines for Edmund Wilson and Elizabeth B

Legg inn av John Brandon » 24 sep 2007 20:12:14

On the topic of "celebrity" ancestor table ...

Cate Blanchett's father, Robert, was from Texas. So she's only half-
Aussie. I knew there was some reason I liked her ...

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contribut ... 018917/bio

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