John (of Nunhide) Wilder

1525 - 1588  (63 years)

• Name	John (of Nunhide) Wilder
  Birth	1525	Nunhide, Sulham, Berkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Oct 1588
  Person ID	I12912	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

  Father	John (The Elder)(of Sulham) Wilder,   b. 1505, Sulham, Berkshire, England d. 4 Oct 1582, Sulham, Berkshire, England (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Agnes Annis   d. 1557
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Keats
  Children	1. John (of Nunhide) Wilder, Jr,   b. Bef 1588   d. Aft 2 Jan 1598 (Age > 11 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Nicholas Wilder,   b. Bef 14 Oct 1588, Hartfield, Hants, England d. Aft 2 Jan 1598 (Age > 10 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. William Wilder,   b. Bef 14 Oct 1588, Sulhampstead Bannister, Berkshire, England d. Aft 1618 (Age > 31 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Thomas (of Sulham) Wilder,   b. 1584, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 23 Oct 1634 (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Eleanor Wilder  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Joan Wilder  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Alice Wilder  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  The family are well known from the 1700s as living in Sulham, but their first link to the village dates to the mid-1500s, when the younger John (son of John and Agnes) married Alice Keats, the only child, and daughter of Thomas Keats of Sulham House. Thomas Keats was the first builder of this house and, through their marriage, this passed to the Wilders, although it's believed that the family continued to base themselves in Shiplake during this period as their main home. Alice and John had four sons - John, Nicholas, William and Thomas. They also had three daughters, named Eleanor, Joan and Alice. In 1582 the large, three-storied Sulham House was granted to the couple's son William, through a grant by his father, and this is where he lived. The property stayed in the Wilder family until 1777, when it was sold by Rev. Henry Wilder. The relationship between John and Alice seems to have been strong; she was named executor in his will, they had seven children together and were married at the time John finished his will in October 1588. The couple then, lived through the later Elizabethan period and would have celebrated that summer with bonfires and wine on news that the Spanish Armada had been defeated. In the same year, John's youngest brother Thomas, also died. The Wilders of the next generation were known to be of the Puritan faith, and so it is possible that Alice and John had similar religious leanings. They were therefore safe from the hunting down of Catholics under Elizabeth, unlike other local figures like Sir Francis Englefield.