Thomas (of Sulham) Wilder

1584 - 1634  (50 years)

• Name	Thomas (of Sulham) Wilder
  Birth	1584	Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Oct 1634
  Person ID	I20226	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

  Father	John (of Nunhide) Wilder,   b. 1525, Nunhide, Sulham, Berkshire, England d. 14 Oct 1588 (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Alice Keats
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Keene Higgs,   b. 1590, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 20 Apr 1652, Hingham, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Jun 1614	Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Children	1. John Wilder,   b. Between 1617 and 1635, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 1688, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Wilder,   b. 1625, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 23 Dec 1658 (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Thomas 1 Wilder, Jr,   b. 1618, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 23 Oct 1667, Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elizabeth Wilder,   b. 1621, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 1688, Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Edward 1 Wilder,   b. 1 Jan 1623, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. 28 Oct 1690, Hingham, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: related]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  SOURCE: The Book of The Wilders, 3rd Printing (The Immigrant Generation, page 19) Many researches and other enthusiasts have confused this family with that of another THOMAS WILDER of Shiplake, yeoman (son of Richard) who died in 1619. This Thomas married in 1606 at Reading, Berkshire to Martha Keene and had sons Isaac, Mathew and Abraham and daughtrs Elizabeth and Marie. There were so many Wilders in the ara at that time, so it is not known whether Thomas Wilder who died in 1619 was desccended from one of the seven sons of Nicholas or was from another migration. There are records showing Wilders in the region before the time of King Henry VII, in whose Army our Nicholas was a military Chieftain. Also, a notion has circulated that our widow Martha Wilder of Shiplake was Martha Higgs. This was apparently based on a statement in the Higgs genealogy to the effect that the Thomas Wilder of Shiplake had, in earlier chapters intermarried with the Higgs faily. Martha was not found in that family. Careful reading of that statement shows that it referred to Thomas's Aunt Eleanor Wilder who married a Higgs and not to Thomas himself. So, we are still without a maiden name for Martha, thanks, no doubt, to whoever tore out the pages of the Shiplake register. This Thomas of Sulham and his wife Margaret had two children, John and Thomas (fifth generation) but he did not live long either, such was the uncertainty of life in those days.His widow, Margaret, then married her brother-in-law, John of Nunhide, and it will be seen that by this marriage the property at Sulham and Nunhide was consolidated.It was their son John, referred to above, who held the land at Combe.

  
  

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