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Bishop Thomas Wilson 1663-1755 married 27/10/1698 Mary Patten - They had 1 son Also named Thomas Wilson. Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of St, Stephen, Walbrook - Born 1703-1784.. I would like to know if he married and whether any children were produced from this marriage.... Many Thanks

Thomas Wilson (20 December 1663 – 7 March 1755) was Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man between 1697 and 1755.

He was born in Burton and Ness, in the Wirral, Cheshire, in December 1663. Having studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained priest in 1689. In 1692 the Lord of Mann, William Stanley the Earl of Derby, appointed him personal chaplain and tutor to the earl's son. Five years later, at Lord Derby’s urging, Wilson reluctantly accepted promotion to the vacant bishopric of Sodor and Man.

When he came to the Isle of Man, he found the buildings of the diocese in a ruinous condition. The building of new churches was one of his first acts, and he eventually rebuilt most of the churches of the diocese along with establishing public libraries. He oversaw the passing in the Tynwald of the Act of Settlement 1704 that provided tenants with rights to sell and pass on their land, subject only to continued fixed rents and alienation fees. Wilson worked to restore ecclesiastical discipline on the island, although he clashed with civil authorities partly because of the reduction of revenue from Wilson mitigating fines in the spiritual court. He met James Edward Oglethorpe in London and because of that meeting became interested in foreign missions. He was an early advocate of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

Bishop Wilson's relations with the people of the Isle of Man were marked by mutual affection and esteem. His personal piety expressed itself in energetic charitable activity and he often intervened to shield his flock from the demands of the state authorities. He declined preferment to the much wealthier See of Exeter. When he died on 7 March 1755 at the age of 91, it is said that his funeral was attended by nearly the whole adult population of the Isle of Man.

Early life (1663-87)
Wilson was the sixth of seven children and fifth son of Nathaniel Wilson (died 29 May 1702) and Alice Wilson née Browne (died 16 August 1708). He was born at Burton, Cheshire on 20 December 1663.[1] According to Wilson's biographer John Keble, both sides of his family had been Burton residents for many centuries. Much of Wilson's childhood was spent at the parsonage in Winwick where his paternal half-uncle, chaplain Richard Sherlock lived; Sherlock supervised Wilson's training. It was through Sherlock that the earliest connection to the Isle of Man can be made, insofar as he was chaplain to the son of the seventh earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, amongst whose ambitions were to restore order to the church in the Isle of Man after a breakdown in the seventeenth century.[2]

Wilson was tutored at the King's school, Chester and entered Trinity College, Dublin as a sizar on 29 May 1682. His tutor was John Barton, afterwards dean of Ardagh. Jonathan Swift entered in the previous month, and other contemporaries included Peter Browne and Edward Chandler. He was elected scholar on 4 June 1683. In February 1686 he graduated with a B.A.. The influence of Archdeacon Michael Hewetson (died 1709), a prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral,[2] turned his thoughts from medicine to the church.[1] He was ordained deacon before attaining the canonical age by William Moreton, bishop of Kildare on 29 June 1686[1] in the cathedral church of Kildare on the day of its consecration.[2]

He left Ireland on 10 February 1687 to become curate to his uncle Sherlock in the chapelry of Newchurch Kenyon at the parish of Winwick. He was ordained priest by Nicholas Stratford on 20 October 1689 and remained in charge of Newchurch with a salary of £30 until the end of August 1692. He was then appointed domestic chaplain to William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby. Early in 1693, he was appointed master of the almshouse at Lathom, yielding £20 more. At Easter he made a vow to set apart a fifth of his small income for charity, especially for the poor.[1] Wilson gave up his parish duties to concentrate on the education of the Earl's heir apparent, continuing in that role for five years. Keble suggests that the Stanley family approved of Wilson's acceptance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Stowall suggests that Wilson became more highly valued by the 9th Earl after giving him strong counsel against his indebtedness and reminding him of the potential for financial crisis arising out of any change in government.[2]

In June 1693 he was offered by Lord Derby the valuable rectory of Badsworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but refused it, having made a resolution against non-residence. He received his M.A. in 1696. On 27 October 1698 he was married at Winwick to Mary (16 July 1674 – 7 March 1705), daughter of Thomas Patten.[1] The couple had four children, of whom only Thomas survived to adulthood and became prebendary of Westminster and rector of St. Stephen Walbrook.[2]

Works
Wilson's 'Works' were collected (under his son's direction) by Clement Cruttwell, 1781, 2 vols., including a Life (reprinted 1785, 3 vols.), and by John Keble, with additions, in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, 1847–63, 7 vols, preceded by a Life, 1863, 2 vols., to which Keble had devoted sixteen years' labour. Besides works noted above, many sermons and devotional pieces, he published:

Life, profiled to the Practical Christian, 1713, by Richard Sherlock.
History of the Isle of Man in Gibson's (2nd) edit, of Camden's Britannia, 1722
Observations included in Abstract of the Historical Part of the Old Testament, 1735. (His 'Notes' are in an edition of the Bible, 1785.)
Posthumous publications were:

Sacra Privata, first published in Cruttwell, 1781.
Maxims of Piety and Christianity, first published in Cruttwell, 1781.

Thanks AOGG - No mention of son their unfortunately - i am a first cousin 10x removed

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pages of websites if you google - see he had four children

three of the cjildren

Thomas 1794
William 1799
Hamlet 1802
Ann 1808

see this site which has a picture and an in depth history on him

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Ann o' GG -- what you quoted --


On 27 October 1698 he was married at Winwick to Mary (16 July 1674 – 7 March 1705), daughter of Thomas Patten.[1] The couple had four children, of whom *only Thomas survived to adulthood* and became prebendary of Westminster and rector of St. Stephen Walbrook.[2]


It was the bishop who had four children. It's Thomas the son we're looking for info about. ;)

http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/pp/patten01.htm

William Patten of London (b 1668, d 1740)
m. (1692) Elizabeth Jackson
(1) Mary Patten
m. Thomas Wilson (prebendary of Westminster)

Mary Patten
m. (1698) Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man
(1) Thomas Wilson (prebendary of Westminster)
m. Mary Patten (dau of William Patten of London)

Well that's screwed up, isn't it? It has Mary Patten marrying her son ...

Same thing as a female ancestor of mine whose son had the same name as her husband allegedly did back in the 1700s in Lincolnshire. Some people just should not be allowed around genealogy without supervision!

ok im slightly confused about these children...

Thomas 1794
William 1799
Hamlet 1802
Ann 1808

Bishop was born - died 1663-1755 and Bishops Son 1703-1784

This is actually extremely confusing.


http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/burke.htm

III. William [Patten], of London, b. in 1655; m. in 1692, Miss Elizabeth Jackson, and d. in 1740, leaving an only dau. and heiress, Mary, who m her cousin, the Rev. Thomas Wilson, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster.

II. Mary [Patten], who m. in 1698, the Right Rev. Thomas Wilson, D.D. Bishop of Sodor and Man.


1. A Mary Patten is the daughter of someone who married in 1692, and married Thomas the Prebendary.

2. A Mary Patten married Thomas the Bishop in 1698.

They can't possibly be the same person.

Did both Thomases in fact marry a Mary Patten??

Thomas 1663 most definitely did as for his son i am unsure sorry

Mark - re

Thomas 1794
William 1799
Hamlet 1802
Ann 1808

Ann has skipped at least a generation.

Ann, won't you please please please give the specific link where you are taking things from???

(If you copy from google results, the link is usually truncated. You have to copy it from the address line when you look at the page itself.)

oops!! well there's plenty of info on him too if Mark googles - the one which gives the names of Thomas Snr.s children gives the details of son Thomas's marriage etc.

forgive the url, and can't copy and paste from it -- it's a google books page:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=yshsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=
thomas+wilson+prebendary&source=bl&ots=rdVuLutvO2&sig=En11_OIioZ5oXDZBo3li6mKmUj0&hl=
en&ei=BLWPTIGUFoP58AaarbDUDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum
=26&ved=0CHwQ6AEwGQ#v=onepage&q=thomas%20wilson%20prebendary&f=false


It's Burke's, 1838, and it has the info I gave above:

Mary Patten, daughter of William Patten 1668, who was son of Thomas Patten 1638, married her cousin Thomas Wilson DD, Prebendary of Westminster.

Mary Patten who married Bishop Thomas Patten was a daughter of William Patten 1668.

So
Thomas Wilson (generation two)
the son of Thomas Wiilson (generation one) and Mary Patten (generation one)
married
Mary Patten (generation two)
the daughter of William Patten, brother of Mary Patten (generation one)

I think that's it!

Beause
the mother of Thomas Wilson (gen 2)
was the sister of
the father of Mary Patten (gen 1)

Thomas the Prebendary married his first cousin -- his maternal uncle's daughter.

Oh -- and this multiple Wilson-Patten marrying might explain the Wilson-Patten surname -- which does suggest maybe Thomas 2 had offspring!

The genealogies on line I've looked at seem to focus on the Pattens.

Ah, page 83 of that Burke's refers to Thomas 2 marrying his "cousin-german" (a term for first cousin) Mary Patten, 1733.


Finally?

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wilson,_Thomas_%281663-1755%29_%28DNB00%29

He died at Alfred House, Bath, on 15 April 1784; his body was brought to London ‘in grand funeral procession,’ with ‘near two hundred flambeaux,’ and buried (27 April) in St. Stephen's, Walbrook. **He married (4 Feb. 1734) his cousin Mary, daughter of William Patten, and widow of William Hayward**, of Stoke Newington, and **had one son, who died in infancy**. He left his property to his relative, Thomas Patten, father of John Wilson-Patten, baron Winmarleigh [q. v.]

Groom's Name: Thomas Wilson
Bride's Name: Mary Hayward
Marriage Date: 04 Feb 1733
Marriage Place: Westminster, Middlesex, England
Collection: England Marriages, 1538–1973

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Thomas probably died young as he was not mentioned in his father's will in 1820 at which time Thomas Jr would have been 26