'Wilder1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wilder of Nunhide, Wilder of Purley Hall, Wilder of Sulham

                               
This page was originally prepared using http://ralphinla.rootsweb.ancestry.com/wildjohn.htm and BLG1952. It was reviewed & reworked on 20.10.24 using Visitation when it was found that that link no longer worked. Data left from the first working that could not be confirmed using Visitation have been left but shown in italics.
John Wyldar or Wilder (a 1471)
1. Nicholas Wylder or Wilder of Sulham, Berkshire (a 03.1542) the first mentioned by Visitation
  m. Isabel or Elizabeth (a 1544)
  A. John Wilder of Nunhide in Sulham (b by 1505?, a 1550)
  m. Agnes (d before 17.01.1559/60)
  i. John Wilder of Nunhide in Sulham (d c11.1588)
  m. Alice (b c1530, a 01.1597/8, d before 23.08.1602, possibly dau/heir of Thomas Keats of Sulham)
  a. John Wilder of Nunhide in Sulham (a 01.1597/8)
  (1) John Wilder (a 01.1597/8)
  b. Nicholas Wilder of Hartfield (a 01.1597/8)
  (1)+ issue - Nicholas, Elizabeth
  c. William Wilder of Sulhampstead Bannister (a 1618) had issue
  m. Joan
  d. Thomas Wilder of Nunhide, Sulham (a 09.1634)
  m. Margaret
  (1) John Wilder (a 12.06.1680) (b c1605, bur 27.01.1675/6 )
  m. (1633) Amy Knapp (bpt 28.10.162, dau of Henry Knapp of Chilton)
(A) Henry Wilder (b 1624-5, d 02.12.1625)
  (B) John Wilder of Nunhide, Sulham
  BLG1952 starts its article on the family with: "This family was resident at Nunhide in the 16th century and the manor was purchased by Thomas Wilder in 1632. The immediate progenitor of the present proprietor was Henry Wilder, of Nunhide, only son and heir of John Wilder, of Nunhide". Visitation identifies his mother as ...
  m. (1670) Elizabeth Knapp (dau of Henry Knapp of Theale)
  (i) Henry Wilder of Nunhide (b c1678, bur 18.06.1755)
  m. Elizabeth Saunders (bur 20.05.1740/1, dau/coheir of Thomas Saunders of Purley in Chaddleworth)
  (a) John Wilder of Nunhide & Purley Hall (bur 13.07.1772)
  m. (11.06.1735-6) Beaufoy Boyle (b c1714, d 17.05.1765, dau of Capt/Col. William Boyle)
  ((1)) Henry Wilder of Purley Hall, Berkshire (b 09.1744, d 22.01.1814, Rector of Sulham, 2nd son)
m. Joan Thoyts (b c1748, bur 15.04.1837, dau of William Thoyts of Whitechapel & Carshalton (& Sulhamstead))
  ((A)) John Wilder of Purley Hall & Sulham (bpt 30.10.1769, d 22.02.1834)
  The following is supported by Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, vol 2 (1894), 'Wilder of Purley Hall and Sulham, co. Berks', p127+).
  m. (22-3.11.1797) Harriet Beadon (b 02.07.1774, d 04.10.1825, dau of Rev. Edwards Beadon of North Stoneham)
  ((i)) Henry Watson Wilder of Purley Hall (b 03.11.1798, d 02.07.1836, Rector of Sulham) had issue
  m. (08.04.1828) Augusta Smith (b 1798-9, d 02.07.1836, dau of Charles Smith of Suttons by Augusta, dau of Joshua Smith of Eristoke Park)
  ((ii)) John Wilder in Eton (b 09.07.1801, d 02.08.1892, rector of Sulham)
  m1. (26.07.1831) Mary Heathcote (b 1810-1, d 22.06.1856, dau of Gilbert Heathcote, archdeacon of Winchester, by Anne, dau of Rev. John Beadon)
m2. (10.04.1866) Mary Hood Deane (dau of Rev. George Deane of Bighton Rectory)
  ((iii))+ other issue - Charles (b 12.07.1808, d 13.09.1838), Jane (b 18.07.1811, d unm 31.12.1845), Harriet (b 20.12.1819, d 04.10.1823)
  ((B)) George Ludowic Wilder (5th son?) had issue
  m. Augusta Ivers Mary Walcot (dau of Edmund Walcot of Winkton)
  ((C)) Francis Boyle Shannon Wilder of Bushbridge Hall, Surrey (b 18.12.1775)
  m. (04.09.1834) Augusta Cornwall (dau of John Cornwall by Susannah Hall, dau of 1st Baron Gardner)
  ((D)) Mary Ann Wilder (bpt 27.05.1775)
  m. (13.10.1803) Frederick Beadon (b c1778, d 10.06.1879 (!), Rector of North Stoneham)
  ((E)) Harriet Wilder (bpt 27.03.1778)
  m. (24.08.1801) Charles Dixon of Stanstead
  ((F)) Lucy Wilder (bpt 1779)
  m. (08.05.1817) John Pannell of Aldworth (Rector of Ludgershall, Vicar of Withernsea)
  ((G)) Charlotte Beaufoy Wilder (d 1870)
  m. (16.08.1817) William Blackwood of London
  ((H))+ other issue - William of London (bpt 02.02.1773, a 1837, d unm?), Henry (bpt 07.12.1771, bur 18.01.1780), Richard (bpt 20.09.1776, bubbr 15.12.14781), Joan (bpt 25.10.1770, bur 10.11.1770)
  ((2)) Harriet Ann Wilder
  m. (01.08.1767) William Dee Best (b c1737, Rector of Beenham)
  ((3)) Mary Wilder (bur 10.01.1782)
  m. (13.08.1771) John Haskins of Little Berkhampstead & Theale
  ((4)) Lucy Wilder
  m. (24.06.1766) Henry Deane of Reading
  ((5))+ other issue - John (d infant), Beaufoy (bur 24.12.1764), Elizabeth (bur 13.01.1746/7), Charlotte (bur 30.04.1765)
  (b) Mary Wilder (d 1778)
  m. (10.02.1742/3) William Philipson of Abington (d before 1766, surgeon)
  (c) Anne Wilder (d 02.1766)
  m. (06.07.1738) West Andrew Blackaller of Market Illey (Islay) (apothecary)
  (d)+ other issue - Elizabeth (a 1754), Jane (bur 08.06.1764), Dorothy (bur 05.02.1716/7)
  (ii) Mary Wilder (b c1678)
  m. (c02.1701/2) Thomas Knapp of Abingdon (b c1677)
  (iii)+ other issue - John (b 12.01.1670/1, bur 13.01.1670/1), John (bpt 04.01.1673/4, d young?), John (b c1675, a 1702, of the Inner Temple), Elizabeth (bpt 18.04.1682)
  (B) Margaret Wilder (d before 1683)
  (C) Amy Wilder
  m. John Briscoe of Chipping Norton
  (2) Alice Wilder (d c1622)
  m. (c1619) Henry Warner of St. Martins-in-the-Fields (a 01.1631/2, m2. Lettice, dau of John Allen of Streatley)
  (3)+ other issue - Thomas, Margaret
  e. Eleanor Wilder (a 03.1598/9)
  m. (before 14.10.1588) John Higgs of Sulhampstead Bannister (d before 03.03.1598/9)
  f. Joan Wilder
  m. (before 14.10.1588) John Palmer
  g. Alice Wilder
  m. (c11.1588) _ Barnes
  ii. Thomas Wilder (d before 18.09.1586) had issue
  m. Alice (d before 07.10.1587)
  iii. Agnes Wilder
  m. _ Edwards
  iv.+ other issue - William, Elizabeth, Joan
  B. Richard Wilder (b c1522, d 1560, 5th son (4th?))
  i. Nicholas Wilder of South Stoke, Oxfordshire (d before 17.03.1600/2, 2nd son)
  a.+ issue - Henry, William, Nicholas, John, Richard, Joan, Agnes
  ii.+ other issue (a 1600) - Henry, Richard
  C.+ other issue (a 1544) - Nicholas, Thomas, John, Henry

Main source(s): Visitation (Frederick Arthur Crisp, England & Wales, Notes, vol 4 (1902), 'Pedigree of Wilder', pp107+), BLG1952 ('Wilder of Purley Hall and Sulham')
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