Wing Family
The Wing Family has been traced back to Matthew Wing
of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, who was born about 1544. He was married to Mary (maiden name unknown)
and they are the parents of 10 children.
One of their sons, John Wing (the ancestor) was born
in 1584 and christened in St. Mary’s Church in Banbury, Oxfordshire,
England. He was well-educated. At the age of 14, on October 15, 1599 he
entered Oxford University. He received a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford’s Queen College on February 12, 1603.
In about 1608, John Wing married Deborah Bachiler,
daughter of the Reverend Stephen Bachiler.
John and Deborah are the parents of 7 children.
John Wing was a minister in the Church of England and
his family became Puritans. The Puritans
wanted people to cleanse their inner selves of sin and then cleanse the Church
of England. John’s teachings caught the
attention of Church of England officials.
It is not known whether church or royal officials ordered John to leave
the country or not, but he felt it prudent to remove himself and his family
from harm’s way in England.
Whatever the reason, in November 1617, John and his
young family found themselves in Europe where he was an itinerant
minister. For the next 15 years they
lived in one European country after another.
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