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[deb usa]

Richard Denchfield bpt. 1 Sept, 1744, North Marston, parents Purchas Denchfield & Rebecca

Nanny Jan

NA: Online Document PROB 11/1128 Will of Rebecca Denchfield Widow North Marston , Buckinghamshire . Will of Rebecca Denchfield Widow North Marston , Buckinghamshire Date: 1785.


deb

[DebbieG]

The two Denchfields also went to Oxford uni

Purchase s/o John matric Harts Hall in 1732 aged 16

Richard s/o Purchase matric Magdalen Hall 1763 aged 18

[deb usa]

Hi

There is a whole lot on National archives going back to 1300's ,,,but I have no idea if they are related to Paula's Purchases...they all seem to have been mostly clergymen ...a lot in the London area as well.

Do we have a father for Richard snr?

deb

[jensquest]

where are you all looking for the info that you have found? I would like to help, but haven't a clue where to start when its this far back   

[DebbieG]

Hi Deb  

No we don't have a father for Richard senior or I think a maiden name for his wife,  I have found a couple of apprenticeship records which make me think Richard snr may have been a woolman based in London for at least part of his life though

[toni*]

inscription de livre 

[deb usa]

found this;

Buckinghamshire: - Calendar to the Sessions Records, 1705-1712 :
The Court allowed a certificate, addressed to the Rt. Hon. Sir Nathan Wright, Knt., Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, asking him to recommend the granting of Letters Patent "to collect the Charitable benevolence of well disposed people" in aid of the following persons, who had suffered losses from "a sudden and lamentable fire" at North Marston on the 11 Aug includes a lot of people as well as these;
John Denchfeild,
 Martha Denchfeild, widow,
 Richard Denchfeild,
 the Rev. Richard Purchase,

 The petition was signed by sixteen of the above persons and by Richard Betham and Thomas Coventry. The total damage was assessed at £3,456. 8s. 2d. by John Fuller and Thomas Statham, carpenters, and James Grace and Thomas Rickard, masons.

[DebbieG]

Hi Jen - sorry didn't mean to ignore you I had just thought of something else to check.   

To answer your question (in part)  it's whatever we can think of which might go back that far.  Churchmen usually went to uni and in those days there was only Oxford or Cambridge,  their Alumni lists are on Ancestry,  they often give place of birth, fathers name and approx date of birth so very useful.  There is also the A2A archives index search site - which can be very good once you get used to how the search works.  also the National Archives site,  Google books can be good too as can just Googleing a variety of the names wanted

Hope that helps

DebbieG

[PaulaToo]

Ric ordained 1695 looks very likely if my Ric arrives in 1696/8

I've had to do some rapid rethinks of late as I have always thought of Ric as an older man and Elizabeth as his daughter. Finding she was his sister rather upset things.
So if sister Elizabeth marries John Denchfield(one of them, it's a favourite name in NM) in 1713, the Ric who entered Brasenose 1689 age 14 seems the right age to be her big brother.

I have found the Purchases back in the 1300 as well, but never found my Ric.
Being in the clergy seems to be a favourite occupation with the family, though I have never been able to tie them together.
I must come from a sanctimonious lot, because it's the same with the Capenhursts, but you're not looking for them.

Anyhow, to me it looks like Ric's dad was Ric from Winslow...