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

[PaulaToo]

Toni, there are a lot of Denchfields in the papers, and don't search for North Marston...you'll regrett it if you do...I know, I did.....

It's a point, to consider....
If I have a string of clerics, perhaps that is why there are only a few of them in each village.
Like the Rev Ric and his family, it might be just the small family unit, which in his case was daughtered out.

[toni*]

i found lots of Purchas (& variants) marriages elsewhere if you can connect them to a different county ........

[PaulaToo]

There are quite a few of them toni.
I've seen them on the IGI.
If you have any others I would be interested in them, especialy if they are very early ones.

[PaulaToo]

Having a think about that Richard Purchas, Scarlet Dyer of Southwark... I wonder if he was descended from the Woolman from Winslow, who we think is Rev Ric's dad Richard.

Could be, when the family came to North Marston they left one behind to look after the business....

[Lesanne]

   Will of George Purchase or Purchas, Wollen Draper of Maldon, Essex 21 June 1637 PROB 11/174

Available online £3.50

[PaulaToo]

In the woolen business again...wish it was Bucks not Essex, but that is certainly one to put on the list of must haves....

[behindthefrogs]

I think that you should contemplate that particularly with regard to Southwark that the family had two bases.  One in Bucks and the other in the centre of London.  My experience is that families in those days frequently had a country seat and a town address which they migrated between them often dependent on things like incidents of the plague and the political climate. 

There were traditions like the youngest son going into the church which might apply.  Around the sixteenth century the religious beliefs of the rulers of England were also very fluid and these also caused the migration of families particularly those with clergy who had more fixed views.

David

[PaulaToo]

Sound thinking, David. That all seems to make sense.
Rev Ric's father, Richard of Winslow may well have had his house at Winslow, but his business in town.

[PaulaToo]

Calling it a day.
Once again, thank you, you lovely people for your help.
Good night little world sweet dreams                  
see you.....