Some New England lines for Edmund Wilson and Elizabeth Bishop

Critic Edmund Wilson and poet Elizabeth Bishop are two literary
figures that have been on my "wish-list" for a well-researched
ancestor table (I knew, or suspected, that both had New England
ancestry). Given the excellent research tools available on the Google
Books search engine, I undertook to work a few of these lines out for
myself.

Any number of Google Books references show Wilson was son of Edmund,
Sr., and Helen Mather (Kimball) Wilson ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=vZoYAAAAIAAJ&q=helen+mather+kimball&dq=helen+mather+kimball&pgis=1

At least part of my interest in Edmund Wilson's ancestry involves the
Kimball family, as I have Kimball lines through both of my maternal
grandparents, quite a number through my grandfather, as the Kimballs
intermarried early on with the Coffins (Kimball, Howland, and
Whitfield are the three families ancestral to both my grandfather and
grandmother).

A quite detailed pedigree chart of Wilson's ancestry is readily
available on WorldConnect:

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=geolarson2&id=I358000

Among the "prominent" families I note in his ancestry are the Mathers,
Stoughtons, Footes, and Spencers. I see he has a line as well from
Frances (Bray) Crippen, a clue to whose ancestry I recently pointed
out (the will of her sister Rebecca [Bray] Draper mentions her as
being in New England):

http://books.google.com/books?id=XCQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA365&dq=%22frances+crippins

Edmund Wilson's ancestors William and Bethia (Faulkner) Bull are
apparently included in _ The History and Genealogy of the William Bull
and Sarah Wells Family_:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fzk7AAAAMAAJ&q=bethia+faulkner&dq=bethia+faulkner&pgis=1

This would probably help flesh out that part of his pedigree.

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I get the following AT for Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), using the
Google Book links pasted at the bottom:

1. Elizabeth Bishop
2. William Thomas Bishop (1872-1911) m. 1908
3. Gertrude May Boomer (1879-1934)
4. John Wilson [not William] Bishop (1846-1923) m. 1870
5. Sarah Anne Foster (1849-1923)
6. William Boomer
7. Elizabeth Hutchinson
8. - 9. ---
10. Thomas R. Foster
11. Sarah Jane Fales
12. - 19. ---
20. Rufus Foster
21. Nancy Torrey
22. Ambrose Fales
23. Amy Newell
24. - 41. ---
42. Abner Torrey
43. Susannah Hobart


http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXbj10oAC&pg=PA2&dq=%22william+thomas+bishop%22+gertrude&sig=SbVt4XY1CWSFO4E9CviGIvNTt1c

http://books.google.com/books?id=3nRJRr1bGAQC&pg=PA21&dq=%22great+village%22+boomer&sig=44hURxrTMlaW8h4GrmbGpl7A5zw

http://books.google.com/books?id=SWdngGZv3cYC&pg=PA2&dq=%22john+w.+bishop%22+sarah+foster&sig=m2xg2-Xt4vwVrNhGHlHLLrTnSy0

http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXbj10oAC&pg=PA13&dq=%22john+w.+bishop%22+sarah+foster&sig=n85vVvsiP-rJRjS9QyujHv0XDf8

http://books.google.com/books?id=MYLDXbj10oAC&pg=PA12&dq=%22john+william+bishop+1846&sig=JqIr6UfALqmWLgkzRouyKjDVUUE

http://books.google.com/books?id=nfhSZxL8bTEC&pg=RA3-PA175&dq=%22mr+bishop+married+january+4+1870+sarah+a.+foster

http://books.google.com/books?id=nfhSZxL8bTEC&pg=RA3-PA176&dq=%22john+wilson+bishop%22+worcester

http://books.google.com/books?id=rSwfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22nancy+torrey%22+foster

http://books.google.com/books?id=rSwfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22nancy+torrey%22+foster#PPA16,M1

This is enough for a start, I suppose. There may be a line from Mrs.
Jane (Haviland) Torrey, of royal descent.

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