PaulaToo's Scavenger Hunt - Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[deb usa]

Hi guys ...

Back from the store and MIL .... Paula , this is fabulous for you ...there is so much about Purchas people online ....but who are yours ? There are a lot of christenings in the Cambridge area but also in the Devon/Cornwall areas ....


deb

[behindthefrogs]

I know it is not relevant but Odo was the half brother of William the Conqueror, who incidently was illegitimate.  He was Bishop of Bayeaux in Normandy from 1049 to 1090 and was responsible for the South of England after 1066 and for the production of the Bayeux Tapestry.

David

[PaulaToo]

Thanks David, might not be anything to do with the case, but good to know about these people.

That is a very good question, deb.
Who are mine...
Well Elizabeth Purchas, who died in North Marston 15 Jan 1755 as Elizabeth Denchfield
Rev Ric Purchas her brother who died 1742
and their Dad and Mum, Richard and Ruth.
To be certain... no one else.
It's a dead end... brick wall...mystery.

We now have a Rev Ric ordained at the right time with a dad Richard from Winslow
That sounds like my man.

Apart from that we have a nice little family coming along in Bierton which could be tied in by a Will belonging to one John Purchas 1596.
I'll be getting the will asap, but without it, we have no proof they are mine as yet.

[Rabbit B]

Hi Folks,

I am even more impressed now that I have been away and come back to this!

I haven't been able to find anything constructive at all, so I sit here in admiration of you all.

Rabbit B   

[PaulaToo]

That's all right Rabbit, you just sit and watch...I'm pretty much overwhelmed myself. It's going to take days to digest it all.

[deb usa]

okay I am not familiar with bucks/London etc etc ...but if the rev Ric was ordained/studied at Cambridge and there are masses of Purchas christenings in the Cambridge area ..maybe thats where they came from...

deb

[Tephra]

Good stuff Paula, you've not done bad for the first day........


Barbara

[deb usa]

Barbara ....hi 

okay .... you HAVE to do a hunt for Ernest the cheese and beetroot sandwich eater ......you never know what we'll dig up !!!!!

deb 

[PaulaToo]

He was at the other one, deb, Oxford, and his Dad Richard seems to have come from Winslow in Bucks.

Just had a thought
entry 13 Dec 1689, aged 14
That means he must have been born round about 1675
I can do my own version of the classic IGI entry...

Richard Purchas born abt 1675
Father Richard,
Mother Ruth

Not done bad at all Barbara....there I was thinking nothing would happen and look at all the names and links these wonderful people have turned up...
Magic