Robert Hulme

Personal and Family Information

Robert was born about 1533 in Reddish, Lancashire, England, the son of unknown parents.

He died in JAN 1605 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.

His wife was Alice Unknown, who he married in ABT 1577 in Lancashire, England. Their three known children were Robert (1578-1640), Jane (1577-1639) and John (1580-1677).

Events

Notes

Note 1

13x Great Grandfather

Note 2

History of Robert Hulme (d: 1605)

by Garry Bryant

Religious freedom was the motivating force for emigration to the New World called America. One of those emigrants was Reverend Obadiah Holmes. A man who exemplifies the early settlers of New England, who came to America for religious freedom. Due to his beliefs he ended up discriminated against, excommunicated and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although the evidence isn’t all inclusive, several events in the Reverend Holmeses life indicate that he is one of the most significant founders of religious freedom in America; one of the religious masons who helped to lay the foundation stone upon which the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be built upon some hundred and twenty-five years later. Reverend Roger Williams was a religious maverick for his time and a contemporary of Obadiah Holmes. Upon banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, Williams obtained permission from the local Indians to settle the area at present day Providence, Rhode Island. At Providence, Williams established the first colony that permitted total religious freedom. Williams even allowed the much hated and persecuted Quakers to have refuge. However, the dominant religion of the colony was that of the Anabaptist faith or Baptist. Williams is credited as being the first founder of the faith in America in 1638. Several weeks after the establishment of Williams church at Providence, the Reverend John Clarke established a Baptist church at the newly founded Newport Colony to the south. Several decades later the Providence and Newport Colonies merged to create Rhode Island.

Holmes ancestry

The early generations of the Hulme / Holmes pedigree can be found in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. This first article on the Holmes family was written by Col. J.T. Holmes in 1910, which appeared in volume sixty-four. Five years later the Colonel published his excellent family history from which a great deal of this family history’s background comes from.1 Sir John de Hulme, Knight, 1154-1189, lived during the reign of King Henry II. Here the family held the ancient Manor of Hulme, near Manchester, England, and adjoining Reddish township. The Hulmes were one of the chief founders of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. Where exactly this Holmes / Hulme family fits into the ancient Lancashire Hulme family is unknown. What various Wills state is that they descend from a branch of the family at Reddish, with the heraldic arms of: “Barry of 8 or and azure, on a canton or a chaplet gules.” is given for the Hulme family located at Hulme, Lancashire,2 and the branch at Reddish, Lancashire. This Holms/Hulme family was of a minor branch for they held their lands in lease from the Cooke’s. Which lands had been in the immediate family for many generations. The Holmes / Hulme family was entitled to these heraldic arms but with a difference. They were probably of the gentry class, since their children were sent to college.

Robert Hulme (d: 1605)

Obadiah Holmes’grandfather was Robert Hulme of Reddish, in the Parish of Manchester, Lancashire, England. This grandfather was buried at Stockport 14 January 1604/05, as “Ould Robert Holme of Redich.” Robert Hulme’s Will is dated 11 August 1602, and was proved on 28 January 1604/05, at Chester. He bequeathed his lands to his wife Alice and eldest son Robert. Alice (???) Hulme was buried at Collegiate Church, Manchester, on 7 September 1610, as “Alyce wydow to Robte Hulme of Reddiche.” Robert and Alice (???) Hulme had four known children. CHILDREN 1. Robert Hulme - Married Katherine Johnson on 8 October 1605, at Stockport, nine children. He died before 24 November 1640. 2. John Hulme - 3. Jane Hulme - 4. Known daughter Hulme - Married a Hoyd, had a son named George.

ENDNOTES 1 Col. J. T. Holmes, “The English Ancestry Of Rev. Obadiah Holmes,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 64, pp. 237-239,Boston, 1910 (FHL-USA/CAN 974 B2NE V.64.)