Bachiler Genealogy








THE BACHILER LINE




BACHILER LINE - FIRST GENERATION

PHILLIP BACHILER

Birth: 1535 in France
Death: BET. 1564 - 1624 in England

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
Married: BET. 1534 - 1581

Children

1. STEPHEN BACHILER b: 23 JUN 1561 in Wherwell,Hampshire,Eng






BACHILER LINE - SECOND GENERATION

STEPHEN BACHILER
Title: Reverend

Born: 23 Jun 1561 in Wherwell, Hampshire, Eng.
Died: Oct 1660, Hackney, Middlesex, Eng. (or)
Died: 31 Oct 1656 All Hallows, Staining, London, Eng.

Father: Phillip BACHILER b: 1535 in France

Marriage 1 Ann BATE b: 1561 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England
Married: ABT 1580-90 England

Marriage 2 Christian WEARE
Married: 1623

Marriage 3 Helena MASON b: 1584
Married: 1627

Marriage 4 Mary BEEDLE
Married: 1648

Children

1. THEODATE BACHILER b: 1598 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England (MY CONNECTION)

2. Nathaniel BACHILER b: 1589 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

3. Deborah BACHILER b: FEB 1591/1592 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

4. Stephen BACHILER b: 1594 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

5. Samuel BACHILER b: 1597 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

6. Frances BACHILER b: 1603 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

7. John BACHILER b: 1605 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

8. William BACHILER b: 1607 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

9. Henry BACHILER b: 1609 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England

10. Anne BACHELDER b: 1600 in Of Hampshire,Hampton,Eng.



BACHILER LINE - THIRD GENERATION

THEODATE BACHILER

Birth: 1598 in Wherwell,Hampshire,England
Death: 20 OCT 1649 in Hampton,Rockingham Co.,N.H.

Father: Stephen BACHILER b: 23 JUN 1561 in Wherwell,Hampshire,Eng
Mother: Ann Bate b: abt1580

Marriage 1 Christopher HUSSEY b: 18 FEB 1598/1599 in Dorking,Surrey,Eng
Married: BET. 1616 - 1642

Children

1. Joseph HUSSEY

2. John HUSSEY b: 1632 in Lynn,Massachusetts m. Rebecca Perkins

3. STEPHEN HUSSEY b: 8 JUN 1632 in Lynn,Essex,Massachusetts m. Martha BUNKER (See the Bunker line for descendants)

4. Mary HUSSEY b: 2 APR 1638 m. Thomas Page

5. Theodate HUSSEY b: 23 AUG 1640 in Hampton,Rockingham,New Hampshire

6. Huldah HUSSEY b: ABT 1643 in of Newbury,New Hampshire`m. John Smith



BACHILER NARRATIVE

THE FOLLOWING IS THE INFORMATION I HAVE GATHERED OVER THE YEARS IN MY RESEARCH ON THE BACHILER LINE. MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM THE BACHILER EPISTLE, A PUBLICATION I SUBSCRIBED TO IN THE 1970'S AND 1980'S.

Rev. Stephen Bachiler.....this is the man Oliver Wendall Holmes spoke of as "that terrible old sinner and ancestor to great men." Descendants of Stephen's include former President Richard Nixon, former President Gerald Ford, Daniel Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, and many others. Not much is known of Stephen's childhood. Afer attendig Oxford, he was instituted Vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, England in Jul 1587. When James became King of England in 1603, Stephen lost his position for "inconformity" in writing "some scandalous verses and singing them in diverse places." He then moved to Holland, which was then the refuge for many dissenting clergymen.

He was 71 years old, father of six, and grandfather of many more when he took ship for the New World in 1632. Rev. Stephen Bachiler arrived in Boston thursday, the fifth day of June, havig spent 88 days in the passage. The ship was the "William and Francis" commanded by Capt. Thomas.

Stephen's first wife died in England and he remarried a "lusty and comely woman" as she was described. (Helen.) October 14, 1638, Stephen founded and settled the town of Hampton, NH. At the age of 80, he was not deterred from becoming entangled with the wife of a fellow minister in Hampton. He faced serious charges of adultry which have never been proven or cleared. It caused him to be excummunicated from his own church. His house was burned down and he lost all of his papers and possessions. Peppery as ever, he sued the town of Hampton for back wages due him and collected. Throughout his ministry, he "disrupted churches, vexed the Godly, and left a lurid trail of reputed moral lapses behind him."

Bachilers second wife died in 1642. It was not long before his "housekeeper" and he fell under suspicion. He moved further into the wilderness, near Portsmouth, and stifled the scandal by marrying her in 1649. He was in his eighties, she in her forties. Some records state he was ordered to wed her. ie in 1650 the court in Boston ordered that, in consequence of a matrimonial difficulty, "Mr. Bachiler and his wife shall live together as man and wife, as in the Court they have publicly professed to do; and if either desert one another, then hereby the Court doeth order that the marshal shall apprehend both the said Mr. Bachiler and Mary, his wife, and bring them forthwith to Boston."

This marriage did not last very long. He tried to divorce her, and the courts denied him, hoping to get him to leave the country. She had been described as "leading a more than normally venturesome life." Stephen decided he had had enough of the New World, and left his third spouse to return to England in 1654. In 1656, the abandoned wife sued for divorce, claiming that Stephen had wed again back in England, and was now a bigamist. If this is so, this must be some kind of record for a man around 95 years old. Not much is known about his last days in England, except that he died in 1660 at 100 years of age.

Another source states of Stephen: "Bachiler settled in Portsmouth and contracted an unfortunate third marriage at 86 with a woman of 40. (third wife). He soon discovered the character of this adventuress, and prayed for a divorce, which the authorities unjustly denied. He was linked with a woman whose immorality had been proven in court, but whom he could not obtain a divorce."

Stephen was a man of his time and his contemporaries did not overlook the wild and whirling life of the maverick man of God. He was not the kind that anyone ever overlooked. Stephen Bachiler was the first minister and founding father of Hampton, New Hampshire, and one of the last of the Elizabethan breed of Englishmen. He was my 11th great-grandfather. We descend through his daughter, Theodate.


Taken from "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers in New England" by John Savage:

Stephen Bachiler, the first minister in Lynn, Mass, born about 1561, came to Boston on the "William and Francis" 5 Jun 1632 from London. He preached at Lynn, next year was freeman 6 May 1635, and next year was at Ipswich, perhaps at Yarmouth 1637, but in 1638 went to Newbury, in 1639 to Hampton, whence in 1641 he was dismissed and some time after may be heard of at Saco.

Finally in 1653/4 he went home, leaving third wife, Mary, here who prayed for a divorce in 1656 because he was gone to England and had taken a new wife. Her suit may hardly have prospered, for, in his History of Lynn, Lewis copies from York records sentence against her, in 1651 for adultry, and that she and her paramour were whipped for it. Probably he had good reason for leaving her, and in a few years after, he died in 1660 at Hackney, near London.



Line of Descent:

PHILLIP BACHILER, STEPHEN BACHILER, THEODATE BACHILER, STEPHEN HUSSEY, BACHELOR HUSSEY, JEDIDAH HUSSEY, ABIGAIL COFFIN, MATTHEW MACY, EUNICE MACY, THOMAS MACY, JOHN MACY, LORETTA MACY, JAMES PARISHO, WAYNE JAMES PARISHO, SUSANNE KAY PARISHO





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